According to a video produced by NOVA we watched in my Environmental Health Science class today, the birth rate must be 2.1 children per woman over her lifetime to maintain a stable human population.
India's population will likely double by 2050. Japan, the Netherlands, and Italy will soon have more immigrants than "natives" populating their countries. And the U.S. population is aging quickly. It's a paradox. A conundrum. How many people is too many? Are we headed toward a catastrophic crash or not? What if the world's demographics are irrevocably altered during our lifetimes? Will it be the end of life on earth as we know it???
But the real question is, how does one have 2.1 children? Honestly.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
4 comments:
Good question. :) Thanks for the laugh! :)
really carefully. that's how.
I just started singing "zero population is the answer my friend..."
Maybe it's because sometimes it FEELS like I have 2.1 children when really I only have 1...???
The answer to that question is simple.
1 Dog = .5 Children
1 Hamster = .25 Children
1 Goldfish = .2 Children
1 Cat = .1 Children
The obvious answer is that woman are typically having two children and then buying a cat. The 2.1 children statistic would be much more alarming if the woman were actually giving birth to cats. On the up side, that might create some sort of race similar to Thunder Cat children. Unfortunately, statistically speaking, there would probably be some mothers who gave birth to snarfs, who (as we all know) are more annoying than a Jar-jar Binks/Scrappy-Do love child. And THAT my friends would spell the end of civilization as we know it.
Post a Comment