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by cube_yellow 4452 days ago
> The single most important world problem we face is overpopulation.

Bullshit. We'd need over 100 billion people on Earth for that to be anywhere near a sane thought. See, e.g.: http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/2006/09/overp...
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lutusp 4452 days ago
> We'd need over 100 billion people on Earth for that to be anywhere near a sane thought.

You know, it can't hurt to get in touch with reality from time to time:

http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats

Quote: "Poor nutrition causes nearly half (45%) of deaths in children under five - 3.1 million children each year."

We have seven billion people on the planet, and according to the UN, almost one billion of those people aren't being fed adequately. So we should have 100 billion people? By what cockeyed reasoning?

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