Im just randomely posting
Thread Topic: Im just randomely posting
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oh...you're one of THOSE peole...
First off, genius..the planet isn't at all "overly-populated" I know what It's like living with alot of kids and practicaly raising them...social services took me and my brother away...I lived in several different homes and less then half was my family members I went to houses with 8 little ones and was one of the oldest so when the couple would leave I'd have to help watch...I know It's not easy and times will be tough but frankly it's worth it...
Broke? I'll live off the land if I'd have to plusss I'm pursuing be an illistrative author on my life and other various genres...I'm pretty sure I'll be fine...money ain't nothing to me..I survived a month on halloween candy and wore the same 5 shirt and 3 pairs of pants at one point the only reason I got more was because my aunt pat (Not really my aunt but everyone calls her that) was tired of seeing me in the same clothes and gave me more....
I understand where you're comming from and all I i never said I was fully commited to 5 but somewhere in that area and who knows what will happen in my future...only time can tell until then, hopefuly you'll respect my choices in life...now that doesn't mean support EVERYTHING...common sense, derrick...LOL wow...my fingers hurt more than my tummy! -
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Love how I f--- up RIGHT when I really don't need to V-V
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Ok, first off genius, it was a joke.
But, since you take it so seriously, yes, at the rate we are going, by the time your first born child is 10, we will be massively over populated. -
I posted that after reading the firs sentence.
Just to be clear on that.
And I really don't much care what you do, I just think, maby you should have 2 kids, wait till 1 moves out, then decide if you want more. A reasonable request, is it not? -
You are about to do a late post, I know. Oh well.
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This is a counterintuitive notion in the United States, where weve heard often and loudly that world population growth is a perilous and perhaps unavoidable threat to our future as a species. But population decline is a very familiar concept in the rest of the developed world, where fertility has long since fallen far below the 2.1 live births per woman required to maintain population equilibrium. In Germany, the birthrate has sunk to just 1.36, worse even than its low-fertility neighbors Spain (1.48) and Italy (1.4). The way things are going, Western Europe as a whole will most likely shrink from 460 million to just 350 million by the end of the century. Thats not so bad compared with Russia and China, each of whose populations could fall by half. As you may not be surprised to learn, the Germans have coined a polysyllabic word for this quandary: Schrumpf-Gesellschaft, or shrinking society.
American media have largely ignored the issue of population decline for the simple reason that it hasnt happened here yet. Unlike Europe, the United States has long been the beneficiary of robust immigration. This has helped us not only by directly bolstering the number of people calling the United States home but also by propping up the birthrate, since immigrant women tend to produce far more children than the native-born do.
But both those advantages look to diminish in years to come. A report issued last month by the Pew Research Center found that immigrant births fell from 102 per 1,000 women in 2007 to 87.8 per 1,000 in 2012. That helped bring the overall U.S. birthrate to a mere 64 per 1,000 womennot enough to sustain our current population.
Moreover, the poor, highly fertile countries that once churned out immigrants by the boatload are now experiencing birthrate declines of their own. From 1960 to 2009, Mexicos fertility rate tumbled from 7.3 live births per woman to 2.4, Indias dropped from six to 2.5, and Brazils fell from 6.15 to 1.9. Even in sub-Saharan Africa, where the average birthrate remains a relatively blistering 4.66, fertility is projected to fall below replacement level by the 2070s. This change in developing countries will affect not only the U.S. population, of course, but eventually the worlds.
Why is this happening? Scientists who study population dynamics point to a phenomenon called demographic transition.
For hundreds of thousands of years, explains Warren Sanderson, a professor of economics at Stony Brook University, in order for humanity to survive things like epidemics and wars and famine, birthrates had to be very high. Eventually, thanks to technology, death rates started to fall in Europe and in North America, and the population size soared. In time, though, birthrates fell as well, and the population leveled out. The same pattern has repeated in countries around the world. Demographic transition, Sanderson says, is a shift between two very different long-run states: from high death rates and high birthrates to low death rates and low birthrates. Not only is the pattern well-documented, its well under way: Already, more than half the worlds population is reproducing at below the replacement rate. -
Sorry.
Can we drop the subject? I feal like I am miscomunicating and starting an argument, can we just drop it? Please? -
Derrick, even if I did have two kids I wouldn't wait nearly that long! That's rediculous!
Whatever...It really doesn't matter..i'm not even out of school yet! -
Yes...I was kinda ending the "Discussion" like right now...ish...
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DAMN IT, LIKE THAT!
THAT SOUNDS TO ME LIKE I AM TRYING TO ARGUE MORE!
I AM SO FUCKING BAD AT ARGUING WITH PEOPLE!
I am even worse at stoping one once one has started. -
Derrick! Derrick! Calm down! I'm like that too! If anything this user is cursed! Everytime I use it I get into a fight!
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I am also bad about late posting.
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Wiered how a debate on the (potential) over population of the earth can start off with a discussion about 7 simple eggs.
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Yeah...people just make posts too quickly and change their minds! And then there I am still typing in responce to their first post then, I hit submit and then it's like
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
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I KNEW IT!
I knew that would be a late post, simply because I mentioned late posts in it.
But this one, because of this, could go either way.
Now because I mentioned late posts, this will be one, but since I said that, it might not be.
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