Humans: Supposedly, the real threat to life on Earth - Yawn!

If population levels continue to rise at the current rate, our grandchildren will see the Earth plunged into an unprecedented environmental crisis, argues computational scientist Stephen Emmott in this extract from his book Ten Billion

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More crap here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jun/30/population-growth-wipe-out-life-earth

How about some facts. This is from Wikipedia:

Quote :: The actual annual growth in the number of humans fell from its peak of 88.0 million in 1989, to a low of 73.9 million in 2003, after which it rose again to 75.2 million in 2006. Since then, annual growth has declined. In 2009, the human population increased by 74.6 million, which is projected to fall steadily to about 41 million per annum in 2050, at which time the population will have increased to about 9.2 billion. Each region of the globe has seen great reductions in growth rate in recent decades, though growth rates remain above 2% in some countries of the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa, and also in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Latin America.

So the rate of population increase is on the decline. Birth rates are on the decline. Fertility rates are on the decline. Populations are not growing in the west, except through immigration.

Humans: Supposedly, the real threat to life on Earth - Yawn!

Humans: Supposedly, the real threat to life on Earth - Yawn!

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