tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988299562536912229.post4834528575361282301..comments2023-09-28T05:30:19.279-07:00Comments on Lee's Daily Adventure: A Message from HighLee Spanglerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02793240733282525356noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988299562536912229.post-7292467283475172622011-09-25T15:16:43.641-07:002011-09-25T15:16:43.641-07:00It's pretty scary, all right. I have the book...It's pretty scary, all right. I have the book open to the same graph I looked at earlier. To clarify, the global population is not presently 9.1 billion. In 1945 it was 2.3 billion and in 2006 it was 6.5 billion. That means the global population almost <i>tripled</i> in our lifetime, which is plenty scary enough! If it continues at the present rate of increase, it is projected to reach 9.1 billion by 2050.Rakshahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11280365011937595321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988299562536912229.post-62062832698707764822011-09-23T14:09:03.322-07:002011-09-23T14:09:03.322-07:00Raksha, that is graphic! I knew we had exploded, I...Raksha, that is graphic! I knew we had exploded, I didn't realize how much in our lifetime! Scary.tapirgalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10098235462073493603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988299562536912229.post-30182630216066767322011-09-20T19:57:19.131-07:002011-09-20T19:57:19.131-07:00The temptation to respond to this post with a soap...The temptation to respond to this post with a soapbox rant on the subject of overpopulation is so overwhelming I don't dare use my own words, which are habitually intemperate on all political subjects. So I'll use Al Gore's words instead. <br /><br /><i>An Inconvenient Truth,</i> his book on global climate change, is very graphics-heavy. The many photographs and charts drive his point home and add to the force of his words. Right now I have the book open to an aerial view of Tokyo taken in 1996, as impressive and terrifying as your photograph of Bogota.<br /><br />On the page before that there is a graph showing the increase in human population from the first emergence of modern humans (about 160,000 BCE) to the present. The abrupt upward swing at the modern end of that graph is likewise impressive and terrifying, and so is the caption:<br /><br /><i>"It took more than 10,000 generations for the human population to reach 2 billion. Then it began to rocket upward from 2 billion to 9 billion in the course of a single lifetime: ours. We have a moral obligation to take into account this dramatic change in terms of the relationship between our species and our planet."</i>Rakshahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11280365011937595321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988299562536912229.post-3622563533506415932011-09-20T10:53:21.649-07:002011-09-20T10:53:21.649-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Rakshahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11280365011937595321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988299562536912229.post-50583485868190318472011-09-20T08:33:45.409-07:002011-09-20T08:33:45.409-07:00Definitely too many people -- everywhere these day...Definitely too many people -- everywhere these days. Glad you found more beautiful things to see. It is a terrific capture though. Stay safe!<br /><br />SylviaSylvia Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05484577678585907669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988299562536912229.post-73722853611608796402011-09-20T07:06:05.520-07:002011-09-20T07:06:05.520-07:00Beautiful outlook with those clouds a wide vista, ...Beautiful outlook with those clouds a wide vista, and I agree - we could solve a lot of problems with fewer people. I've had that notion since I was about 6.tapirgalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10098235462073493603noreply@blogger.com