How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth?

Nature — By on November 14, 2010 at 9:22 pm

In a Horizon special, naturalist Sir David Attenborough investigates whether the world is heading for a population crisis.

In his lengthy career, Sir David has watched the human population more than double from 2.5 billion in 1950 to nearly seven billion. He reflects on the profound effects of this rapid growth, both on humans and the environment.

While much of the projected growth in human population is likely to come from the developing world, it is the lifestyle enjoyed by many in the West that has the most impact on the planet. Some experts claim that in the UK consumers use as much as two and a half times their fair share of Earth’s resources.

Sir David examines whether it is the duty of individuals to commit not only to smaller families, but to change the way they live for the sake of humanity and planet Earth.”

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  1. patrick says:

    Hello,
    Yes it is clear that we are close to some major events.
    But there is no consideration of it – people who can act against it dont have really interest – at the contrary, the system is based on growth and they won’t be alive when the consequences will come out.
    Very good documentary.

  2. This was a good program.

    In 2010 there are three potential factors that will be reducing worldwide population.

    1. In June 2006 the world reached worldwide Peak Oil. The world has been at the top of this curve for the last 4 years. In 2011 we start down the down slope of the Peak Oil curve. By 2015 oil prices will begin to spike upwards sharply. By 2030 the oil civilization we know today will be over. With no affordable oil for fertilizer or farm machines, worldwide food supply will drop significantly.

    Life After the Oil Crash
    http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash

    2. Weather forecasts over the last 3,000 years show a cooling trend every 200 years or so. This 200 year cooling cycle has now been tied to solar sunspot activity. The end of the current warming period is 2010. From 2011 (or there about) until 2211 the world will be getting gradually colder and colder as sunspot activity on the sun declines.

    200 Year Sunspot Cycle is also a weather cycle
    http://personal.inet.fi/tiede/tilmari/sunspot5.html

    3. On August 17, 2028 I have had a premonition of an asteroid strike in the United States in or around Yellowstone National Park. This asteroid strike will destabilize the Yellowstone Super Caldera resulting in the largest volcanic eruption mankind has ever witnessed.

    The Yellowstone Super Caldera volcano is primed and ready to erupt. It is now 200,000 years over due for its next eruption.

    The combined asteroid strike and Yellowstone Super Caldera volcanic eruption is forecast to wipe out all life on the North American continent for 100 years.

    This event will not happen without warning. In 2024 the incoming asteroid will be spotted. In 2026 its impact site will be officially determined. On August 17, 2028 the asteroid will impact on or near the Yellowstone National Park destabilizing the Yellowstone Super Caldera volcano.

    American President Barack Obama, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev have been warned of the premonition. Russia is the safest place to be during the impact event on August 17, 2028 between Yoshkar-Ola and Kirov. They were notified in the fall of 2008. This premonition is recorded in the first Presidential Kids Art Album eBook honoring the new friendship of American President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

    The premonition was received on June 12, 2008 while I was on a CalTrains trip from Sunnyvale to San Francisco to go biking down by the San Francisco waterfront and over the Golden Gate Bridge.

    In 46 years I have NEVER been wrong with regards to a premonition event. NEVER.

    “Future World Events 2010-2128” details three major events to transform the planet by 2030
    English Version
    http://www.ereadable.com/scripts/browse.asp?ref=1414904649

    New Friends! President Barack Obama & Russian President Dmitry Medvedev

    English Versions – Basic
    http://www.ereadable.com/scripts/browse.asp?ref=1414904487
    http://www.ereadable.com/scripts/browse.asp?ref=1414904495

    The asteroid event is NOT an E.L.E. Event. (Extinction Level Event)

    1 billion humans survive the August 17, 2028 cataclysm.

  3. Jose says:

    The faster the oil runs out the better…..i guess.
    People never react until something horrible has happened. Cars did not have seatbelts before thousands died in car crashes, planes get safety mods after really big crashes.
    The world has to end again so we can rebuild it and this time, rebuild it properly.

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