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By 2050 there will be 9 billion carbon-burning, plastic-polluting, calorie-consuming people on the planet. By 2100, that number will balloon to 11 billion, pushing society into a Soylent Green scenario. Such dire population predictions aren't the stuff of sci-fi; those numbers come from one of the most trusted world authorities, the United Nations.
But what if they're wrong? Not like, off by a rounding error, but like totally, completely goofed?
That's the conclusion Canadian journalist John Ibbitson and political scientist Darrel Bricker come to in their newest book, Empty Planet, due out February 5th. After painstakingly breaking down the numbers for themselves, the pair arrived at a drastically different prediction for the future of the human species. "In roughly three decades, the global population will begin to decline," they write. "Once that decline begins, it will never end."
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Who do you think is right ? The United Nations or Darrel Bricker/John Ibbitson ?
(Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 05 2019, @06:09AM (2 children)
The NT is literally infinitely worse than the OT, because it contains (at least to people who can't read Koine...) a God who says he'll drop the majority of all humans who have ever lived into eternal, inescapable, conscious, endless torment.
Comparative religion is helpful in helping one notice that all gods, including Yahweh, are products of their times and will change along with those times. The pre-Exilic view of the afterlife was just that everyone went to Sheol; contact with the Zoroastrians gave the Jews a sense of linear rather than circular time, the concept of eschatology, and a fleshed-out system of reward and punishment in the afterlife, though the Zoroastrians seem to have taught the final annihilation of the evil rather than endless torture, which was a Greek idea.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Teckla on Wednesday February 06 2019, @02:10PM (1 child)
This is not accurate and something Christians debate. You seem to be picking the most uncharitable interpretation possible in order to bash your ideological enemies.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday February 06 2019, @03:27PM
Did you see the "at least to people who can't read Koine" part? I know very well what the difference between the words aionios and aidios is, or for that matter the difference between kolasis and timoria. But how many Christians to?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...