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| Cartoon from this site - http://www.overpopulation.org/artists.html - permission requested |
I can only imagine the true impact of World Population growth - it parallels today's CNN coverage - floods in Pakistan, more nursery school killings in China, forest fires in Russia. bomb alerts in Bangkok - it's all part of the overpopulation puzzle - Global warming increases the frequency and severity of disasters and social aberrations, and more people get caught in the way.
When I decided not to have kids in 1961 the
World's population was 3 billion.
It took 1,000,000 years to get to the 1st billion
It took 2,000 years to get to the 2nd billion
It took 200 years to get to the 3rd billion.
In six months it's 50 years since my decision.
Today we are 7.35 billion.
Imagine the headlines when we are 25 billion - on a shrinking land mass gobbled up by rising seas. It isn't pretty.
Right about now, Global Warming becomes irreversible. Headlines will happen we never imagined.
I started hand-powered kayak tours in 1983 to demonstrate there are other ways than motors. In 1985 "Moloka'i's Forgotten Frontier" won an Emmy Award, but more significantly, the "Teddy" for Best Environmental Education Production of the Year.
Guess I was just chasing windmills!
Check out this world population site - the population clock uses "a logarithmic equation obtained through a statistical analysis of the data at this URL. . This figure does take into account both births and deaths".
"And, yes, while the count may not be exact, there really are, more or less, that many people on the planet at the moment you read the population clock.".
See you on the water,
Ling Yai (Thai for 'Big Monkey') AKA John Caveman Gray
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