The Population Solution
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Question... 1. Most people assume that human numbers will stabilize at some
point in the future. Discuss the conditions which can contribute to the solution
of the population explosion.
"Let us suppose that the average human being weighs 60 kilogram's. If
that's the case then 100,000,000,00 ....
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.... would weight as much as the entire planet.... Even
if that were possible, it wouldn't give us much time. If the growth-rate stays
at 2.0 per cent, then in a little over 2,200 years - say, by 4220 AD - the human
populat i on would weigh as much as the entire Solar system, including the Sun...
and by about 6700 AD - the human population would weigh as much as the entire
Universe." The preceding paragraph, by Isaac Asimov describes quite alarmingly
just how bad the population problem really is ....
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