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Rogozhin
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 Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 6:52 pm Post subject: A real-time population meter. |
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Scary to watch this:
Worldometer
The global population is the scariest.
ugh
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billg
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 8:47 pm Post subject: Re: A real-time population meter. |
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The human pop grows by 210,000 heads per day!!!
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Heineken
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:18 pm Post subject: Re: A real-time population meter. |
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At some point in this century it will start to run in the reverse direction.
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auscanman
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:34 pm Post subject: Re: A real-time population meter. |
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| Heineken wrote: | | At some point in this century it will start to run in the reverse direction. |
You mean at some point in the next decade, with things going to crap far more quickly than was anticipated. |
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Stratovarius
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:38 pm Post subject: Re: A real-time population meter. |
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Wow. Nice link...
It's fun watching the top-soil erosion and CO2 emission counter. Look how fast they add up! It's just a blur of numbers. |
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Heineken
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:57 pm Post subject: Re: A real-time population meter. |
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| auscanman wrote: | | Heineken wrote: | | At some point in this century it will start to run in the reverse direction. |
You mean at some point in the next decade, with things going to crap far more quickly than was anticipated. |
Could be. But "demographic momentum" will take some time to overcome (unless there's a monster pandemic or a nuclear war or something along those lines).
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Rogozhin
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 11:27 pm Post subject: Re: A real-time population meter. |
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The way this is compiling I don't see a rapid 'die-off' happening without something globally catastrophic as the catalyst.
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gg3
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 11:49 pm Post subject: Re: A real-time population meter. |
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Every sustainability-oriented website ought to link to that. And it should be available as a desk-accessory: a little widget that runs the population totalizer in the corner of your screen.
BTW, very soon, as in today or tomorrow, it's going to tick over to all 6s. As in: 6,666,666,666. |
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RedStateGreen
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:59 pm Post subject: Re: A real-time population meter. |
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This one is kind of interesting: World Clock
This one is cool: you put in a year and see how the world population then compares to now. Even shows future projections to 2037. World Population then and now
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