How Many Humans Have Ever Lived?

I found it hard to believe, but I had always heard that there were more people alive today than had lived throughout history.
Sounds like the above was off by a bit.

@#1 That statement was made by philosophers who are not mathematicians.

Where this graph goes non-scientific is “hypothetical number of people Earth can support”. Though “hypothetical” disclaimer softens it, this number is nonsense, even if we consider only present day technology and resource consumption patterns because there are so many arbitrary “knobs” to adjust it (just one such knob: distribution of standard of life could sway that number for orders of magnitude up or down).

I don’t see how Allah can come up with 72 virgins for each possible candidate in a worst case scenario.

Assuming even excellent quality control, I’m guessing some of those ‘virgins’ are not quite so.

We have reached a ceiling on energy production, we cannot generate more energy than we are generating now.

Everything we have depends on energy: Food, technology, transportation. If the population continues to grow, people will have to settle for less.

For the few that dont understand.
Questions to think about.
How much land is needed for FOOD/MEAT/housing for 1 person.
How many animals have been devastated in this world ALREADY. Think of the millions of Buffalo that USEd to roam the central USA. figure that at LEAST 1/2 of all animals have lost there land and living conditions. After 2012 a good share of the oceans creatures will NOT be able to reproduce FASTER then we are eating them.
AS an individual, trying to Live off the land. YOU CANT, any more.(it would be allot harder then in the past)
Another STRANGE point, is the amount of oxygen and other BREATHABLE material thats required to sustain life on this planet. The more people the MORE chemicals we create the LESS breathable air we will have, unless you can change EVERY large city into a repository for TREES(already been tried, and lost).
10% of this planet is arable soil. Thats LAND that can be used to grow food. Unless you wish to decimate the Forests of the world(as in S. america) we are limited in WHERE we can grow food.
We have already added enough chemicals to grow 10 times the food in a smaller area.
We have created plants that NATURE didnt create, and I wonder if we should be eating it as the MICE/RATS other animals wont.
Whats left for the future? Eating our dead, and using MORE CHEMICALS.

ECA said,
“How much land is needed for FOOD/MEAT/housing for 1 person.
How many animals have been devastated in this world ALREADY.
After 2012 a good share of the oceans creatures will NOT be able to reproduce FASTER then we are eating them.”
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Hmmmm. Well one thing we will have plenty of is…. People.
Press release:
We at the Soylent Corporation have created a solution to the worlds food shortage. A new, high protein food source based on the most prevalent source of meat on earth.
We call it…. “Soylent Green”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green

What propaganda arm put this out?

I would point out that our “modern” science is neither “science” “modern” nor accurate. It is political and religious dogma. f’k, everyone still believes the 19th century science of newton and einstein physics are what makes “the universe” work.

#7 we have never even *touched* our energy potential. we are “controlled” by the illusion of finite energy resources. You can produce infinite energy using resonant electromagnetics and/or gravity. -toroidal fields etc.

Because we have power hungry Lunatics controlling every facet of the planet and the humans on it, this technology remains suppressed. What these lunatics have done is squandered [destroyed] the mineral resources of the planet. -for which almost all living things on this [and including] the planet cannot “live” without.

The coming pole flip will “refresh” the planet, and ‘lighten’ all life, as well as the human load a bit. -and ice ages are always a good thing when it comes to making a planet such as ours “renew” itself. (I really hope the hundreds of nuclear reactors either “scram” or are “neutralized” prior to the change. it would put a real damper on the whole “renewal process”.)

[If the Norway spiral is any indication, Lunatics A, B & C will launch WW3 with electromagnetic / particle / gravity weapons rather than conventional nukes]

Just have to hope the lunatics in possession of advanced technology do not prevent this natural cycle from happening.

In any case…now worries..our population will be kept in check. the eugenics crowd currently in control will see to that fact, to be sure.

Natural Cycles will take care of the rest.

This has all happened before and will happen again.

-s

#14
BANG!
POW!
POP POP POP!!
Dam he wont die.

“Yep. There is absolutely no way to replace obsolete power plants with nuclear plants. It’s completely impossible.”

I know you are trying to be sarcastic, but you are actually telling the truth and don’t even know it.

If Nuclear Power plants are so great why has none been built in America in 30 years? Answer: They are an extremely bad investment.

The capital investment needed to build a nuclear plant, makes it unprofitable for at least 15 years, and that is if everything goes right with the regulators, and the prices of Uranium remain stable (which they wont). The risks are huge! A private corporation in Ontario Canada attempted to get investors interested in a new nuclear plant there. They quit when they could not raise more than 10% of the initial costs.

The only country investing heavily in Nuclear energy is France and they are doing it almost entirely at taxpayer expense. That would never go over well here in the US.

Solar and Wind have smaller start up costs and could become profitable in only 7 years, and yet they are having trouble finding investors as well.

Starting around 2015, world oil production is likely to drop 4%-7% a year. Where is the trillion dollars needed to build the nuclear plants needed to replace that oil going to come from? What about the next trillion dollars in 2016?

The question isn’t “how many humans have ever lived?”. The question is “How many humans have ever driven a SUV/truck 600+ miles in one day, many times?” Those are the humans that matter most.