By me, there are more important things than this, but people don't want to help each other but prefer to envy others and criticize them. That's why it is easier to control you.

Hi Belly,

Please have a look at this chart:

http://ourworldindata.org/grapher/projected-population-by-age-cohort

Notice that between now and 2100, the population of young people and children stays flat (and even declines very slightly); but that the population of older people, especially those over 65, old farts like you and me, rockets up - this is not because anybody is born already old, but because people who are already here, simply keep living - they live longer. On average, we all will.

Does that make sense ?

Cheers,

Joe

Shawn Dmi good day to you, do you think liking and respecting each other is easy to achieve
Fact is right now we have never been more fragmented and that is a truth, some give more concern to the bottle of water in their hand and phone in the other than anything else
Loudmouth looked at it but
See we think differently, you seem to think she will be right mate
While I think it will not be,actually think in my case if we do not control population stall all growth?
Wars may be used to do it
Too that population growth is about to become one of the worlds biggest concerns

Blly,

So, you mean, how do we control population growth which is caused by people living longer ? How can we (once we have world government) ensure that people don't live longer ? Which groups should we be thinking of culling ? Should there be a sort of life-limit - say, 75 ? What other fascist remedies can we implement, once we have total control of the world's populations ?

Joe

Belly,

Please have a good look at this:

http://firstsourcesinfo.ipage.com/stats/

i.e. the size of young; working-age; and elderly populations up to the year 2100.

Notice that the young population, i.e. under 15, doesn't really grow in numbers between now and 2100 - in fact, it slightly declines.

The elderly population grows three-and-a-half times - that's us.

The largest component, the working-age population, also grows healthily, but only by a quarter or so in the next eighty years - that's the population which is needed to support the other two non-working populations. Notice it levels off later in this century, while the elderly population keeps growing. That elderly population has to level off some time as well, since 100 or 120 is probably our natural limit (may you live to be 120, Belly !)

Of course, as technologies improve, there will be less need for as many people in the working population, i.e. it will keep pace with the growth in the non-working populations.

As well, very likely, throughout this century, pension-age will be pushed up, which is understandable since there will be far fewer people having to do manual work throughout their working lives. So perhaps more of the total population will still be working (i.e. in non-manual jobs) than this graph shows.

Fear not, old mate !

Cheers,

Joe

Loudmouth yes true living longer increases the population
And some times birth control can have impacts we must see
The Sub Continent, and China under the one child policy, saw hundreds of thousands, millions probably, of women children aborted or killed after birth
See last weeks India story [man burying his dead child dug up a living girl]
We are about to see the social impacts of not enough brides explode
How could we ever, control population without addressing that?
We stand on different ground here but I remain convinced constant population growth is not sustainable