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By: Kola

it seems that thanks to our social system of France is doing better than other countries face a crisis

especially with 35 hours of work per week (share of working time)

What do you think about life?
its social system?
What do you think about our cretin president of which is ultra liberal socialism because the street catch?

excuse me for my english but…i’m french…frog eater :p
@françois: mdr venir sur yahoo Q/r defendre sarkozy et apres tu te pretend non sarkozyste….
toi t’es la pute a sarko mdr! mais je t’en veux pas..t’es étudiant tu connait peanuts au monde du travail

By: Apolitique De Mes Fesses VII

In 1900, 1.6 billion were feeling the pinch a bit and wondering where all these people were coming from.

1955 seemed strange. 2.55 billion human bodies competing for food, space, water, energy, comfort.

2.55 billion despite two world wars, a holocaust, a major influenza epidemic in 1917-18.

2006: 6.5 billion people tredding the mudball.

Humans have never achieved the ideal of spreading death of an entire population consistently. A lot of spikes and valleys happen.

Human sensibilities are offended when more than the alloted number of deaths happen during too compressed a time-span. An earthquake, 100,000 deaths raises eyebrows. A tidal wave.

But the challenge for 21st century planet walkers seems to be finding a way to keep that 6.5 billion from reaching 13 billion by 2075. Birth control hasn’t approached the problem, and isn’t likely to do so.
There used to be a cliché that the Chinese could march four-abreast into the sea forever without reducing the population. That was back when there weren’t so many Chinese, and there weren’t so many of the rest of us.

Is there a question of ethics here, or am I just hallucinating?
Yesterday I saw a post from an AnswersAddict explaining there’s no population problem. Everyone in the US, he said, would fit into the State of Texas. Maybe true.

But without trying to fit everyone in the US into Texas every drop of river water in the State is already poisonous. Almost every food product is imported because farm lands have been sacrificed for residential development.

I wonder how many of us would have to march abreast into the sea every moment just to stabilize it?

The sharks would love it.
woodman: yep. Thanks for the reply.

Bahpath: That’s encouraging. The world population of 2050 should feel better knowing you said so. Thanks for the reply
vizny: Say the human lifespan’s 70 years on average. What’s ideal about 1/70th dying every year is that 69/70ths don’t die in a single year, spreading the other 1/70th out over 70 years.

Thanks for the reply.

Sophist: Thanks for the reply
Sowcrates: Thanks for the reply. As a veteran myself, I tend to think you have a misplaced sense of what’s owed by the many to the few. Vets did what they did. Part of the game. Nobody owes nobody nuthun on that score.

The people on the streets need an individual to hand them a can of beans and a loaf of bread. They don’t need a legion of social workers to figure out what else they need.

Just my thought.
giggly giraffe: hone up on your reading skills, maybe? Or read all the way through before you draw conclusions and post answers refuting what hasn’t been asserted.

Population is population is population. Hasn’t anything to do with your Libertarianism. Nothing to do with what you think of some incident in Iran.

Thanks for the inane reply. thumbs up.
Sowcrates: Sorry I gave you the impression I knew, assumed, cared, what your political leanings involve.

I don’t know, and I don’t believe you know, a reasonable, acceptable solution to population increases of the sort happening internationally.

If it’s going to be taken out of the hands of nature, seems to me it might be a good idea for someone to be thinking about it.

That’s the intent, and always was the intent, of this question.
giggly giraffe: Lessee. Which part don’t you believe in? The population numbers? They’re official. Or do you just not believe anyone should be discussing them?

By: Jack P