The World in 2100: Ten Billion People, No Oil and Not Enough Food

What the World Will Look Like in 2100
- Business Insider
Average life expectancy will hit 81 years, the population will reach 10 billion and oil supplies will drop to almost zero.

The World in 2100: Ten Billion People, No Oil and Not Enough Food
by Eric Goldschein and Robert Johnson
Friday, November 4, 2011


With global population now at seven billion, it may be time to start planning for what the world will look like in the coming years.

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Already, at seven billion, we are experiencing severe poverty, hunger, a shortage of resources, increased urbanization and climate change issues.

Will we be doomed by 2100, or can we make it work? Since we've only got one planet (so far), let's hope for the latter.

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will have an epiphany. We'll stop spending all our money finding easier and faster ways to kill people and start spending it on easier and faster ways to feed people and keep them healthy. We'll all work together to advance the common cause of feeding clothing and housing every human being on the planet and then we can start looking to the stars.

Or we'll fuck it all up.

rate of population growth since the 1960s. So far we've managed. Nature usually takes care of the overpopulation of a species and it's not pretty. Nature is the big equalizer.

I've been waiting for that shoe to drop for some time.

their is reincarnation (ugh). Sorry, but I want the dirt nap.

and develops new methodologies for heating, cooling, lighting, etc., as well as producing food for consumption.

It also assumes that there won't be a trend away from reproduction.

DOOOOOOM, I tell you!!!! DOOOOOOOOM!!!! Abandon all hope!!!!!


They were saying this kind of shit a hundred years ago, too.

Global warming and deforestation go hand-in-hand. We would have nobody but ourselves to blame.

The end of fossil fuel will cause the outbreak of global competition for resources, followed by global war.

Mid-Century, there will be another period like 1914-1949, 1789-1815, and 1618-1648.

A baby being born in the US now has life prospects comparable to a baby born in Germany in 1890.