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The Race to 9 Billion

Planet 2050: What Is the Race to 9 Billion™?

Susan Goldberg, Editor in Chief, National Geographic Magazine
Robert Kunzig, Senior Environment Editor, National Geographic Magazine
Population growth and urbanization are redefining our society. Hear the big picture from National Geographic.


23 Comments on "The Race to 9 Billion"

  1. yellowcanoe on Thu, 1st Jun 2017 3:36 pm 

    Here I was thinking that population growth to 9 billion would be a bad thing. But calling it a race puts a whole different spin on it. Races are always fun and exciting! It’s going to be a gigantic version of the Amazing Race!

  2. Davy on Thu, 1st Jun 2017 3:59 pm 

    Makati, I thought you said there was nothing to worry about in Manila?

  3. Cloggie on Thu, 1st Jun 2017 5:26 pm 

    The brown mob of the 9B future makes itself felt already:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4563736/Gunfire-explosions-heard-hotel-near-Manila-airport.html

    ISIS attack in Manila hotel (“Resorts World Manila”)

    #PlanetOfTheApes
    #KissHigherCivilizationGoodbye

  4. Apneaman on Thu, 1st Jun 2017 6:18 pm 

    We don’t need no stinking Paris agreement. No you don’t and neither do the kids and grandkids, because their short and horrible future is assured.

    Humans are ushering in the sixth mass extinction of life on Earth, scientists warn

    ‘Extinction rates for birds, mammals and amphibians are similar to the five global mass-extinction events of the past 500 million years

    http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/mass-extinction-humans-causing-earth-deaths-end-times-warning-a7765856.html

    Humans gonna learn the hard way what they mean by the WEB of life.

  5. onlooker on Thu, 1st Jun 2017 6:47 pm 

    Haha, how many layers of denial and fraud is intertwined in the Paris Accords? Alot!
    Oh and did the video say more sustainable with higher population. Yes. Too bad that is an Oxymoron

  6. Apneaman on Thu, 1st Jun 2017 9:09 pm 

    Race to the bottom

    Massive crack in Antarctica ice shelf grows 11 miles in only 6 days

    “A massive crack in an Antarctic ice shelf grew by 11 miles in the past six days as one of the world’s biggest icebergs ever is poised to break off.

    Only eight miles remain until the crack in the Larsen C ice shelf cuts all the way across, producing an iceberg about the size of the state of Delaware.”

    “Still, studying ice shelves and icebergs is important because they “hold back the glaciers that ‘feed’ them,” Luckman said. “When they disappear, ice can flow faster from the land to the ocean and contribute more quickly to sea-level rise.””

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/sciencefair/2017/06/01/massive-iceberg-break-off-antarctica-crack-expands-11-miles/102385980/

    It’s a big fucking cork that’s about to go POP!

  7. makati1 on Thu, 1st Jun 2017 9:15 pm 

    AP, the change is speeding up. Even my farm partner has noticed that our farm could be beach front property someday as it is 85 meters above the Pacific Ocean and 5 miles from the current shore. lol

  8. Theedrich on Fri, 2nd Jun 2017 5:19 am 

    he solution to the 9B is

    jettison the “help-the-sludge” ethic of Christianity, currently used as an excuse by multi-billionaires to control and rip off Whitey;
    let the darkies kill one another off.

    The idea that Whitey can civilize Afroids, Allahland or Spic countries is pure self-induced madness, the result of two millennia of otherworld propaganda.  While it did some good in the past, Christianity has become a deadly poison against evolution.  Time to leave its anthopomorphic, tear-jerking god in the dust.

  9. onlooker on Fri, 2nd Jun 2017 6:16 am 

    Drich, I think what you REALLY would want is Whity to help out the Darkies in eliminating themselves

  10. TheNationalist on Fri, 2nd Jun 2017 9:20 am 

    It seems nobody wants to tell the hysterical uneducated masses the Paris accords were not working anyway? I say let them blame Trump, for now it stops them eating each other and buys me and Drich more time perhaps?
    I find it strange that multinationals that have benefitted the most from globalisation and offshoring industry (pollution)to places like China are blaming Trump aswell. They all blame Trump/ whitey whilst doing little to change themselves?
    Projecting their failures onto others is a bad sign for the flailing leftists. How many have an electric car etc?, they are as damaging as the polluting “right” now as they have no coherent policy of dealing with anything either. I hear China will “lead the world” now!, have they lost their minds?

  11. Apneaman on Fri, 2nd Jun 2017 10:24 am 

    TheNationalist, “…to change themselves?” If you believe such a thing is possible then you need to go stand with the deluded uneducated masses. The humans have as much control over their insatiable reward seeking behavior as a shark or a lion has over theirs. It’s even funnier applied to over entitled westerners who were indoctrinated in ‘consuming 101’ from the second the parents plopped them down in front of the TV (electronic parent).

  12. Apneaman on Fri, 2nd Jun 2017 10:52 am 

    douchy stop your pathetic fumbling around making excuses for your fat, stupid, drug addicted fellow white merican losers. They were on top of the world 3 generations ago when they all went to church on Sunday instead of laying on the couch eating Doritos and watching 10 hours of NFL & NASCAR while their women are out shopping or scoring some black cock. How do you explain that away? Oh ya, dat B Geebus fault.

    “The drug overdose fatalities are overwhelmingly white, mostly male and increasingly less likely to have prescriptions for the drugs that kill them. And, across Tennessee, those killed are more likely to overdose on opioids — including heroin and fentanyl — than on any other kind of drug.

    The report obtained Wednesday details a surge of deaths between 2012 and 2015. In 2015, at least 1,451 Tennesseans died from drug overdoses.

    That’s 22 drug overdose deaths for every 100,000 Tennesseans. Over the past five years, the state has recorded 6,036 drug overdose deaths.”

    http://www.tennessean.com/story/money/industries/health-care/2017/05/24/state-data-confirms-overdose-deaths-primarily-white-opioid-users/342569001/

    “NASHVILLE, Tenn. – New numbers from the Tennessee Suicide Prevention Network show suicide has increased 13 percent in Tennessee in one year. Those most at risk are white, middle-aged, men.”

    http://www.newschannel5.com/news/suicide-increases-across-tennessee

    White middle age blue collar background (hey that’s me) are not the only demographic killing themselves and dying in droves from addiction, they are just the one with the biggest surge. So is it because of Christianity or is there possibly something else? Something that they all have in common? Something like NO fucking opportunity? Yep that be it and that’s because the world has changed and the people y’all elected – all of them regardless of which tribe they pretend to represent sold you out on behalf of their rich masters. As far as they are concerned you are just another nigger or spic to use then throw out with the trash when no longer needed. But don’t worry douchy, things are going to change. It’s going to get even worse.

  13. Apneaman on Fri, 2nd Jun 2017 12:11 pm 

    Andrew Glikson

    Earth and paleo-climate scientist, Australian National University

    Open-ended growth appears to be inherent in nature, all the way from the DNA to the arthropods to mammals, including humans. Open-ended growth is the psychology of a cancer cell. I am not sure I know of a species which has learnt how to limit its own growth. Unfortunately species which transcend their environmental resources can hardly survive – the final arbiter of the climate impasse will be nature itself.

    https://theconversation.com/what-can-nietzsche-tell-us-about-the-paris-conference-51236#comment_842655

  14. Apneaman on Fri, 2nd Jun 2017 7:39 pm 

    Second Biggest Jump in Annual CO2 Levels Reported as Trump Leaves Paris Climate Agreement

    NOAA released its annual update on greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere and found a large increase in 2016.

    https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01062017/donald-trump-noaa-CO2-paris-climate-change-agreement


    Daily CO2

    May 30, 2017: 409.25 ppm

    May 30, 2016: 407.70 ppm
    April CO2

    April 2017: 409.01 ppm

    April 2016: 407.42 ppm
    March Temperature

    2nd Warmest March since 1880: 2017

    Coolest March since 1880: 1898

    https://www.co2.earth/

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZarmRLa2p9Q

  15. Apneaman on Fri, 2nd Jun 2017 8:27 pm 

    Wind Project in Wyoming Envisions Coal Miners as Trainees

    “Goldwind Americas, an arm of a leading wind-turbine manufacturer based in China, has been expanding its business in the United States. It has been careful to seek out local, American workers for permanent jobs on the wind farms it supplies.

    Now it is trying to extend that policy to an unlikely place: Wyoming, which produces more coal than any other state and has hardly welcomed the march of turbines across the country, even imposing a tax on wind-energy generation.”

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/21/business/energy-environment/wind-turbine-job-training-wyoming.html?ref=oembed

    ‘Yeah, I’m proud to be a turbine technicians daughter’

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM84OekHtAQ

  16. Apneaman on Fri, 2nd Jun 2017 9:57 pm 

    Extinction is the End Game

    “It’s been clear for some time that we have past the point of no return, triggering multiple tipping points in Earth’s living systems. New findings are continually confirming scientists’ worst nightmares. A key glacier in the Antarctic that holds back 10 feet of sea level rise was just described as breaking apart from the inside out. In other grim news, the long feared carbon bomb has now been quantified and is projected to release the emissions equivalent of an industrial country like the U.S. in the next few decades, prompting researchers to say that “climate change may be considerably more rapid than we thought it was.” Biodiversity loss is another critical threshold we have breeched: “New research shows that local extinctions have already occurred in 47% of the 976 plant and animal species studied.” A new study also reveals that the planet’s tallest animal is facing extinction after its numbers have plummeted in recent years, with the ominous warning that “many species are slipping away before we can even describe them.” Forests are being wiped out by armies of invasive insects. Because of a rapidly changing climate and the vast scale of the problem, the idea that reforestation will somehow save us is a pipe dream. Those forests won’t stay healthy enough to serve as carbon sinks and besides, seven times Earth’s land area would need to be in cultivation in order to reduce the planet’s atmospheric CO2 level down to 350ppm.”

    https://collapseofindustrialcivilization.com/2016/12/10/extinction-is-the-end-game/

  17. DerHundistlos on Fri, 2nd Jun 2017 10:28 pm 

    Yep, reforestation is a pathetic crutch to make us all feel good. There is no possible way that the intricate ecosystem that once existed can be replicated. I use the search engine, “Ecosia”. When initiating a search, in the center of the page is a counter of the number of trees replanted. One of their projects in is Haiti, although the US spent $100 million on a nation wide reforestation program and for a few years it worked. That is once the trees reached a harvestable height, the charcoal gangs cut every last tree down. So now the charcoal criminal gangs are targeting the wildlife reserve forests of the Dominican Republic that exist along the boundary with Haiti. When the Dominican army was sent in to stop the rape, OXFAM and other social welfare groups cried RACISM.

  18. makati1 on Sat, 3rd Jun 2017 12:30 am 

    Plant 100 hectares here. Clear 1,000 hectares there. THAT is the current way the world works and will not change until the human locusts are all gone. Be patient. The end is approaching.

  19. onlooker on Sat, 3rd Jun 2017 1:11 am 

    Yep, I remember reading about how the soil is at its optimal state in a climax ecosystem. It is a combination of plant cover and microbial life that together nourish each other and thrive. Well, the soils and vegetation where it exists is mostly denuded and inert/lifeless being maintained with synthetic fertilizers. Dramatically less healthy and ultimately less sustainable

  20. Kenz300 on Sat, 3rd Jun 2017 2:12 pm 

    The worlds biggest environmental problem is over population.

  21. DerHundistlos on Sat, 3rd Jun 2017 4:12 pm 

    Look at a Google Earth image of the Island of Hispaniola. No need for an overlay of the boundary between Haiti and the Dominican Republic (where I worked for some time). The demarkation is evident via color. The Haitian side is a dull brown indicating total deforestation while the Dominican side is a vibrant green, although the map is changing. I notice small incursions of dull brown just inside the Dominican side. This is deforestation occurring due to the Haitian Charcoal mafia. Since 100% of the land in Haiti is deforested, the gangs are burning the DR. The DR was so severely criticized by OXFAM and other social welfare groups for RACISM that the government withdrew the military that was protecting the wildlife reserves. Only a handful of under-equipped park rangers are expected to save the forests from heavily armed Haitian gangs.
    Once we lose fossil fuels, given the global human population, the world’s forests will be stripped of trees in a matter of months.

  22. Davy on Sat, 3rd Jun 2017 4:23 pm 

    “Once we lose fossil fuels, given the global human population, the world’s forests will be stripped of trees in a matter of months.”

    I don’t think so. Do you realize how hard it is to take down and process trees without fossil fuels? Der hund have you ever run a chain saw and or cut and split wood? That is a chore and that is with fossil fuels. It is more like we are not going to strip the world bare because we will not be capable without the skills and equipment of a generation lost.

  23. Apneaman on Sat, 3rd Jun 2017 4:26 pm 

    “A record-setting heat wave of over 40 degrees in Hanoi has disrupted life around the capital city, with some families skipping dinner while others flocking to anywhere with air conditioning. “

    http://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/families-scramble-for-relief-as-summer-heat-scorches-hanoi-3594425.html

    record-setting cancer monkeys

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