OVERSHOOT ( What a Way to Go! )

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Excerpt from "What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire" (2007) -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1413259/ plus one short, simple question to (self-)test your perception of the PopulationExplosion; the HUMAN population-explosion, that is, of course, as most other (wild) animal populations are either diminishing or crashing: Knowing that worldwide population growth has decreased (a wee bit) " down to ~ 1.1 % " (1.092% p.a. in 2011 acc.to CIA fact book) - please guess/estimate.... QUESTION: For every 100 humans that die, HOW MANY are born ? ANSWER (and how to derive it): see http://wda.tradivarium.at/answer.htm -- The *root* problem, of course, is not over-population, but over-consumption. With over-population, however, unavoidably being a multiplicative factor of over-consumption. -- PS: U$A 2009 population growth rate= 0.963 (!UP! from 0.883 in 2008) % p.a. == doublingtime: ~73 (~80) years -- according to http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/peo_pop_gro_rat-people-population-growth-rate ... Bye-bye, homo (hur hur hur) 'sapiens' === music (KOYAANISQATSI-theme-variation) towards end is from "The Age of Stupid" (2009) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1300563 === highly recommended viewing, worth repeated study: Dr. Albert A. Bartlett's lecture on "Arithmtic, Population and Energy" - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5E5D773B9E239356 -- most people just do NOT [want to] understand the basics about exponential growth; these are admittedly somewhat counter-intuitive, and not-easy to grasp 'emotionally'(automatically) even for those who easily grasp them intellectually (i.e. with some math) === What others have guessed: (AT:) (160) 120 120 115 117 (IND:) 500 (USA:) 500