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   From: fredxx@nospam.com   
      
   On 09/05/2017 22:07, Norman Wells wrote:   
   > On 09/05/2017 20:01, Roger Blake wrote:   
   >> On 2017-05-09, Norman Wells  wrote:   
   >>> You can scoff as much as you like, but it will happen.  The only   
   >>> question is when.   
   >>   
   >> Not any time in the foreseeable future. The people making these   
   >> predictions tend to fudge data to present the worst-case scenario and   
   >> fail to take into account technological progress.  I do scoff and laugh   
   >> quite a bit at the environmentalists, and for good reason.   
   >>   
   >> With respect to Steven Hawking, in the long run the earth certainly is   
   >> doomed and it is probably a good idea to get off this rock. However   
   >> unless we are hit by an asteroid or manage to touch off a world-wide   
   >> atomic war I don't see anything likely to make the earth uninhabitable   
   >> within 100 years.   
   >   
   > Except that world population is increasing exponentially by about 50%   
   > every 40 years.  And they're not making any more land or other resources.   
      
   That is not the general consensus.   
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth   
      
   Growth is slowing so no longer exponential. Perhaps if we didn't support   
   famine relief...............   
      
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