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World Population Surpasses 8 Billion People, India To Overtake China Next Year

The organization forecasts that the human race will have a membership of 8.5 billion people by 2030 and 9.7 billion people by 2050

More than half of global population growth over the next three decades is slated to occur in eight countries: Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to the United Nations.

Cato Institute Senior Fellow Marian Tupy, who has authored multiple books about the fallacy of planetary resource depletion, said during an interview with The Daily Wire that “the more people you have, the greater the number of people who are likely to be inventors or innovators.”

“The world’s population in the last 200 years has risen from 1 billion people to 8 billion people, and yet the world is much richer than it was before. Not just that, but we are living longer, we are healthier, we are better educated, we are more moral in many aspects,” he remarked. “Only human beings can have new ideas that lead to innovations, inventions, productivity gains, and increased standards of living. If any progress is going to come, it has to come from the human mind. The more people you have, the more ideas you have, the more innovations you have.”

Tupy, acknowledging that only a fraction of the population innovates in the way he described, noted that population growth is by no means the only factor for productivity. “If a large population was all that mattered, then China would be by far the richest country, because they have been the most populous country for the past 2,000 years,” he continued. “You need to have a modicum of freedom, whereby people are free to think, publish, and associate.”

[dailywire.com]

Garsco 8 Nov 16
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Chinese civil wars often kill 1/4 of the population.

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You know THEY will come up with a way to reduce the total population, so no worry!!!!!

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There is nothing so wrong than a committee of experts. Another group suggests that around 2050, the world's population is expected to drop like a stone and we will have major labor shortages. Go figure.

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If the WEF have their way, this prediction will be wrong by a long shot, like 8 billion.

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