another 40 year the world pupulation will hit 9 billion
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Population in the world is currently growing at a rate of around 1.15 % per year. The average annual population change is currently estimated at over 77 million.
Annual growth rate reached its peak in the late 1960s, when it was at 2% and above. The rate of increase has therefore almost halved since its peak of 2.19 percent, which was reached in 1963, to the current 1.15%.
The annual growth rate is currently declining and is projected to continue to decline in the coming years, but the pace of the future change is uncertain (1). Currently, it is estimated that it will become less than 1% by 2020 and less than 0.5% by 2050.
This means that world population will continue to grow into the 21st century, but at a slower rate compared to the recent past. World population has doubled (100% increase) in 40 years from 1959 (3 billion) to 1999 (6 billion). It is now estimated that it will take a further 42 years to increase by another 50%, to become 9 billion by 2042.United Nations projections (Pdf document) indicate that world population will nearly stabilize at just above 10 billion persons after 2200.
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Wonder how long we could keep 9 billion fed and clothed.
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dont have enough food and water to feed 9 billion people
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Originally posted by Stevenson101:
Wonder how long we could keep 9 billion fed and clothed.
fed what??? most are africa tribes decendents who can find their own food, so u dun hv to bother, what is worry should be that by 40 years time, Singaporean may get less by a million and i will be posting alone here, all my Uncles and Aunties died liao...sob sob...But the funny thing is that when the world population is increasing, war will occur more and that will reduce the population again.
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finally u post something that make sense
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All this is projection if all events hold ground. If say the present swine flu suddenly becomes a virulent and antibiotic-resistance strain, the the equations will change. We may have technology but sometimes that doesn't help enough. Nothing is certain so don't worry too much. Nature have a way of destroying and creating itself somewhere somehow. We are just part of a bigger cycle.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
All this is projection if all events hold ground. If say the present swine flu suddenly becomes a virulent and antibiotic-resistance strain, the the equations will change. We may have technology but sometimes that doesn't help enough. Nothing is certain so don't worry too much. Nature have a way of destroying and creating itself somewhere somehow. We are just part of a bigger cycle.
This hysteria about swine flu is overhyped in my opinion, more people are probably getting killed by seasonal influenza everyday than the sum total from swine flu.But the sad thing is that most humans still think the natural order wouldn't apply to them.
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Originally posted by Stevenson101:
This hysteria about swine flu is overhyped in my opinion, more people are probably getting killed by seasonal influenza everyday than the sum total from swine flu.I agreed. Some killers diseases are more ignore than the hyped swine flu.
What I said is that a sudden outbreak of something more powerful can change the whole equation in world population. Or a natural phenomenon or something else... where humanity and their technologies haven't got the power to overcome.
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Originally posted by angel7030:
fed what??? most are africa tribes decendents who can find their own food, so u dun hv to bother, what is worry should be that by 40 years time, Singaporean may get less by a million and i will be posting alone here, all my Uncles and Aunties died liao...sob sob...But the funny thing is that when the world population is increasing, war will occur more and that will reduce the population again.
Sometimes i really don't know whether you're really expressing an opinion or just trying to provoke a response.
Cities and countries rise and fall, tyrants and dictators come and go. Singapore's just too small a factor to matter much.
Population reduced -> Population increased/Increase consumption -> Overpopulation/Resource constraint -> War/Famine/inability to control disease outbreak -> Reduce population.
However, the resource to sustain the current population explosion is based off something that takes millions of years to form. I'm not so certain we would ever see such an explosion after this time.
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the world revolve in it natural revolution, for example, whoever wish to change it, hv to paid the price, more human population take on more illness creation and more fighting, and more space is needed by destroying other species spaces driving them into distinction and the higher the technologies, the worst the world get in term of warming and destruction.
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Originally posted by sgisawasteoftime:
finally u post something that make sense
oh! so all these while, i dun make sense ar??? wha lau -
Originally posted by angel7030:
the world revolve in it natural revolution, for example, whoever wish to change it, hv to paid the price, more human population take on more illness creation and more fighting, and more space is needed by destroying other species spaces driving them into distinction and the higher the technologies, the worst the world get in term of warming and destruction.
Ok lor, I say you make sense this time. Have a lighter side but not too far off.
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Mother Nature doesn't negotiate.
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Originally posted by Stevenson101:
Mother Nature doesn't negotiate.
Can't afford to offend that old dame.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
Ok lor, I say you make sense this time. Have a lighter side but not too far off.
Really? I make sense ar??? i dun believe it myself, i am suppose to be senseless, that is my role here. -
Originally posted by angel7030:
Really? I make sense ar??? i dun believe it myself, i am suppose to be senseless, that is my role here.Ok lor, you so kuai, won't make small report to your brother.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
Ok lor, you so kuai, won't make small report to your brother.
ok lor, no problem, eh...how much are you offering? -
why even bother when sg can barely hit the 6m marks....
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deustche marks
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That is why you should start living in smaller space.
Hong Kong architect gets 24 rooms into one tiny flat
(AFP) - - It's not that Gary Chang doesn't have room in his tiny flat to swing a cat. With just 344 square feet (32 square metres) of floor space, he doesn't have room for the cat.
Yet award-winning Hong Kong architect Chang has managed to squeeze 24 rooms -- including a steam room and home cinema -- into his Swiss army knife-style home.
Chang, 46, turned the tiny flat he has occupied since the age of 14 into what he calls his "domestic transformer," and in the process offered a vision for how one of the world's most densely-populated cities could better use its limited space.
"The key idea is that everyone could look into their home more carefully and into how better to optimise their resources, because space is a resource," he said.
"There is no use making your home as if it is a perfect show flat but at the same time never using the space," he said.
Chang has tackled the lack of room by replacing the flat's walls with a series of accordion-like sliding units, hung from metal tracks on the ceiling, that can be moved about to form a variety of configurations.
The partitions conceal drawers for clothes, shelves for toiletries and racks for thousands of CDs and DVDs.
Chang grabs a handle near his wall-mounted television and suddenly the wall itself is moving across the polished granite floor to the centre of the room, revealing a folding laminate worktop and well-stocked minibar facing the kitchen behind.
The flat can be one big, open-plan studio or, with very little effort, an arena of fold-down surfaces, seats and beds.
The concept was born of necessity. Growing up in the flat with six others, Chang had to be flexible.
"I have three younger sisters, so we all lived here. Originally there were three bedrooms, a living room and a dining room," he said.
"My sisters occupied one room, my parents another room and the third was actually not for me, it was for an outsider -- my parents sub-let it to somebody else to get more revenue. So actually I slept in the living room."
Chang still lives in the flat, and has spent his adult life reinventing his small corner of a 19-storey 1960s tower block in Hong Kong's bustling Sai Wan Ho district.
The architect believes his innovations can show even the poorest families how to improve their domestic arrangements and is determined that his book "My 32m2 Apartment: A 30-Year Transformation" will influence new housing.
Lack of space is a huge problem in Hong Kong, a metropolis of seven million, reflecting rocketing rental prices, at least before the recent downturn.
The average price per square metre nearly doubled from 32,777 dollars on Hong Kong island in 2002 to 58,915 dollars five years later, according to the city's housing authority.
But Chang regards the dense housing as a kind of social arbiter, responsible for some of the city's most notable virtues, such as low crime.
"Oddly enough, it's the lack of density that makes a place dangerous, because when the place is like Hong Kong, 24 hours it's busy and people feel safe," he said.
"It's like we are monitoring each other in quite a frequent manner so actually I try to argue for high density -- we have efficiency, convenience and security."
The optimisation of space means Chang can afford to squeeze in luxuries not usually seen in Hong Kong's tiny apartments, including a glass shower which doubles as a steam room, a 1.9-metre (six feet-three inch) bathtub and a reasonably sized kitchen.
There is even a wall-sized cinema screen, raised by remote control to reveal a huge, yellow-tinted window which gives the flat the illusion of being washed in warm sunlight, even on the cloudiest day.
Chang's experiment in flexible living began after he graduated from the University of Hong Kong, where he had been studying architecture.
"In the year I graduated, 1987, my parents moved to a better place in Hong Kong and my mother encouraged me to buy the place. So, starting in the late 1980s, it became my home," he said.
Chang has renovated four times, on each occasion with a bigger budget and more innovative approach, turning a 350,000-Hong Kong-dollar (45,000 US) shoebox into a mini-palace worth around 1.3 million dollars.
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Originally posted by angel7030:
fed what??? most are africa tribes decendents who can find their own food, so u dun hv to bother, what is worry should be that by 40 years time, Singaporean may get less by a million and i will be posting alone here, all my Uncles and Aunties died liao...sob sob...But the funny thing is that when the world population is increasing, war will occur more and that will reduce the population again.
so cherish the Uncles and Aunties now, must also sayang them, don't always poke them......
later you become Aunty like them n the young punks also poke fun at u than you regret too late liao.... -
Originally posted by 4sg:
so cherish the Uncles and Aunties now, must also sayang them, don't always poke them......
later you become Aunty like them n the young punks also poke fun at u than you regret too late liao....I think she will poke more fun now that you'd mentioned. Age will catch up with her one day.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
I think she will poke more fun now that you'd mentioned. Age will catch up with her one day.
but I also got a feeling that you are a clones of somebody here to flame her.....
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Originally posted by 4sg:
but I also got a feeling that you are a clones of somebody here to flame her.....
What make yo so sure I'm a clone? Give me one.
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you know I know.