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Land Before Time, The (1988)
IMDB rating: 6.80
Plot: An orphaned brontosaurus named Littlefoot sets off in search of the legendary Great Valley. A land of lush vegetation where the dinosaurs can thrive and live in peace. Along the way he meets four other young dinosaurs, each onea different species, and they encounter several obstacles as they learn to worktogether in order to survive.
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Directors: Bluth Don
Actors: Byrnes Burke,Damon Gabriel,Erwin Bill,Hingle Pat,Hingle Pat,Ryan Will,Adventure,Family,Drama,Animation,
Why is it that the global world population is going to cap at 10 billion?
I find this quite silly. Why, if it has almost never decreased before (excepting the black plague) would the global human population stop growing after reaching 10 billion people?
Are we expected to run out of land? Food? Did someone predict a war over oil?
I find the projections quite silly as projectionists are lazy statisticians who could not do math better than a 9th grade student. In fact in the ninth grade I could make their predictions using a graphing calculator in two minutes. They use 3 flipping significant digits in their computations!!!!! (2 in the case of calculating carbon dioxide output by 2050) </rant> ducking idiots </really end of rant>
How did these projector people reach their conclusions?
Yes, we are expected to run out of food, and run out of land.
If you want to understand where the number is coming from, there’s an explanation for you below.
10 million person-cap has nothing to do with carbon dioxide output or a war over oil. It has nothing to do with global warming, greenhouse gases, or pollution of any kind. It is a best-case scenario based on what we know that we can do, and what we hope that we can do, if we have to do it.
With current crops, agricultural methods, and maximum land use for farming, we can literally only sustain food for an absolute maximum (probably actually lower) of 10 million people. That’s not at a pleasant level of everyone eating like Western Civilization, either. That’s just all of us having enough to eat to maintain ourselves.
There is a limit to food production. Cattle, pigs, chickens, they need a certain area of land to mull around in, even if then only eat from a trough, not grazing. Livestock can only reproduce so quickly. Our ocean s are already terribly over-fished. Crops of wheat and corn/maize (the most important crops in the world) can only be grown so densely, and so quickly, even through modern genetic engineering. There’s only so much space available to grow the crops, and most of it isn’t naturally ideal, which puts a strain on resources to maintain agricultural demand. It takes time to plant and harvest, and the soils will only be viable as long as we can artificially enrich them with nutrients after every crop. They have to be taken to a facility for processing, then they have to be delivered to where the food is needed.
There is just simply a limit to what we can do, and even projected at a best-hope capability to do.
It’s just simply the maximum – there is a minimum food to keep a man alive, and there’s a maximum output of that food to be distributed between him and all the other men to keep him alive.
Mark V | Nov 23, 2009
