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Lemme guess, you caught this from http://xkcd.com/1331/ too?

I stared at the 'my turn signal' and 'car in front of me' signal together for way too long. I went into the same trance I do sitting behind cars at a real red light.

I caught that too! That was a bit of icing on a really clever cartoon.

also, obligatory secondary xkcd reference "Turn Signal": http://xkcd.com/165/

I could not take my eyes off "One Birth" / "One Death"

Fascinating - and I think humanity is "winning"

Second kid since yesterday. Fighting for humanity here.. ;-)

Twins? Congratulations - the battle is worth it :-)

At that rate, better stock up on diapers.

http://xkcd.com/605/

It makes me sad because most of the births are in underdeveloped countries, where people have no access to clean water and healthy food. And as more people of countries like China enter middle class, the resources we depend on, will diminish faster and faster.

Please watch anything by Hans Rosling for an entertaining and educational counter-balance to your fears, ; while having some validity, over population is it one of humanities most pressing problems.

typo: over population is not one of humanities most pressing problems

Thanks, I will.

I couldn't take my eyes off of the fact that everytime wikipedia is edited someone dies.

How 'bout that for the correlation=causation folks!

You certainly know how to choose your battles..

Damnit you guys, stop editing!

Huh, I was more surprised that every time someone dies Wikipedia is edited.

I found it quite eerie and fascinating that the "heartbeat" and "one death" categories are so alike in rhythm.

If you keep winning like that for too long you lose.

what's the timescale here ? Still on the same planet? Yeah maybe, but there is a lot of land here anyway.

It's not land that's the problem, strictly speaking. Look up Leibig's Law of the Minimum.

The historical preindustrial peak human population was around 500-800 million. Maybe we'd be lucky and be able to sustain somewhat more than that, say 2 billion. I have a hard time seeing much more given energy and resource limitations.

Prediction's hard, especially about the future, but I suspect we're looking at a crisis well within 100 years. Possibly a few decades out, if that.

Look up Limits to Growth.

Yep, I saw that little guy blinking away and had to know more...

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