WHERE ARE WE GOING?
My blog postings are sometimes aimed to advocate something, or provide a different look at a situation. About the world population, I somewhat cheekily said in The Huffington Post ( and this was in 2011, when the population was about to reach 7 billion ): THE WORLD POPULATION IN 2050 COULD WELL BE 7 BILLION Here, the latest from Our World in Data: That is, in the year 2100, when the annual growth rate drops to 0.1%, the world population will be 10.9 billion. We really can't support this number of people at any lifestyle close to the USA. My reasoning was that we had to take population control more seriously, for the sake of humanity in the future. So again, no one listens to me. Some think we are going to live on Mars. I have suggested the open ocean as a parallel next frontier. Thus the Blue Revolution . We only need $150 billion to build an ocean city to host the world expo in 2050. For background: A report from the ...