Bill Gates recently warned that an outbreak of a disease like the flu virus that swept the world in 1918 could kill 30 million people within a six-month time span.
https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gat...mic-2018-5
I am of the opinion that world depopulation is going to start soon. It will likely be caused by a number of causes. First pandemic illness that spread. But other factors will play out from food and water shortages, wars (not so much though), suicides will likely be big, large demographic of baby boomers dying out, natural disaster etc.
It will not be a overnight process though. It may take about 50 to 75 years.
World population in 1915 was about 1.5 billion. Then in 2015 it shot up to over 7 billion. I think it may well hit 9 to 10 billion. But after that it will start to go down every year. Maybe lose 25 to 50 million a year. Eventually it will go down back to 5 - 6 billion.
Then it will likely rise back to 8 billion and then go down again to 4 - 5 billion.
Many think this is a disaster but it is just nature looking after itself.
There is actually a lot of positive about half the world dying out.
The big one I think is that the large population boom from 1915 onwards to now created more development than ever in recorded history.
A massive world wide technological structure was created and every city in the world massively developed and all areas of science, medicine, engineering -- music, every area of knowledge experienced massive growth.
All this growth is recorded and here to stay.
When the world depopulates it will have all the knowledge preserved and a fantastic technological structure to work in.
There will be likely another boom or golden period as there will be demand and not enough workers.
So this massive world depopulation coming will be tragic for those who die out but in the bigger picture it will only be a stepping stone for greater evolution for the human species.
What do you guys think?
https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gat...mic-2018-5
I am of the opinion that world depopulation is going to start soon. It will likely be caused by a number of causes. First pandemic illness that spread. But other factors will play out from food and water shortages, wars (not so much though), suicides will likely be big, large demographic of baby boomers dying out, natural disaster etc.
It will not be a overnight process though. It may take about 50 to 75 years.
World population in 1915 was about 1.5 billion. Then in 2015 it shot up to over 7 billion. I think it may well hit 9 to 10 billion. But after that it will start to go down every year. Maybe lose 25 to 50 million a year. Eventually it will go down back to 5 - 6 billion.
Then it will likely rise back to 8 billion and then go down again to 4 - 5 billion.
Many think this is a disaster but it is just nature looking after itself.
There is actually a lot of positive about half the world dying out.
The big one I think is that the large population boom from 1915 onwards to now created more development than ever in recorded history.
A massive world wide technological structure was created and every city in the world massively developed and all areas of science, medicine, engineering -- music, every area of knowledge experienced massive growth.
All this growth is recorded and here to stay.
When the world depopulates it will have all the knowledge preserved and a fantastic technological structure to work in.
There will be likely another boom or golden period as there will be demand and not enough workers.
So this massive world depopulation coming will be tragic for those who die out but in the bigger picture it will only be a stepping stone for greater evolution for the human species.
What do you guys think?