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"Population decline can refer to the decline in population of any organism, but this article refers to population decline in humans. It is a term usually used to describe any great reduction in a human population.[1] It can be used to refer to longterm demographic trends, as in urban decay or rural flight, but it is also commonly employed to describe large reductions in population due to violence, disease, or other catastrophes.[2]
Sometimes known as depopulation, population decline is the reduction over time in a region's census. It can be caused for several reasons; notable ones include sub-replacement fertility (along with limited immigration), heavy emigration, disease, famine, and war. History is replete with examples of large scale depopulations. Many wars, for example, have been accompanied by significant depopulations. Prior to the 20th century, population decline was mostly observed due to disease, starvation and/or emigration. The Black Death in Europe, the arrival of Old World diseases to the Americas, the tsetse fly invasion of the Waterberg Massif in South Africa, and the Great Irish Famine have all caused sizable population declines. In modern times, the AIDS epidemic has caused declines in the population of some African countries. Less frequently, population declines are caused by genocide or mass execution; for example, in the 1970s, the population of Cambodia underwent a period of decline due to wide-scale executions by the Khmer Rouge.
During the Age of Imperialism, Europeans migrating to new continents brought with them not only devastating new means of waging warfare but also, often inadvertently, infectious diseases such as smallpox to which indigenous peoples had no resistance. These factors, particularly the latter, sometimes had a devastating impact on the indigenous inhabitants."

Hypefiend wrote: it is said that our race will be double that amount in a matter of 50 years or maybe less

64hz wrote:we won't be able to feed our race in 50 years.

borrowed wrote:

64hz wrote:we won't be able to feed our race in 50 years.

Nope.

64hz wrote:it's not a actual lack of food that will be the major problem, but a shortage of oil.
oil is such an important resource, its mind boggling how much our society depends on it, it is literally the blood of western society.
every step of the food production process depends on it, from the obvious like transport, to things like packaging, fertilisers and pesticides.
alot of the wars fought in the twentieth century have been shaped around control of oil, not actually ideological battles (although obvs that was a factor)

i didnt mean the whole human race will starve, but i think a great deal will, especially with climate factored in, floods and droughts across large parts of the world have huge impact.

the western world will come off relatively ok i hope, we seem to be fairly good at exploitation. worst case scenario is the collapse of civilization as we know it.

64hz wrote:

borrowed wrote:

64hz wrote:we won't be able to feed our race in 50 years.

Nope.

what then?

capo ultra wrote:

64hz wrote:

borrowed wrote:

64hz wrote:we won't be able to feed our race in 50 years.

Nope.

what then?

we will be able to feed our race in 50 years.

HRKRT wrote:

64hz wrote:it's not a actual lack of food that will be the major problem, but a shortage of oil.
oil is such an important resource, its mind boggling how much our society depends on it, it is literally the blood of western society.
every step of the food production process depends on it, from the obvious like transport, to things like packaging, fertilisers and pesticides.
alot of the wars fought in the twentieth century have been shaped around control of oil, not actually ideological battles (although obvs that was a factor)

i didnt mean the whole human race will starve, but i think a great deal will, especially with climate factored in, floods and droughts across large parts of the world have huge impact.

the western world will come off relatively ok i hope, we seem to be fairly good at exploitation. worst case scenario is the collapse of civilization as we know it.

yeah oil will be a bigger problem first youre right.

but i reckon collapse of the oil trade would be a good thing personally. if society could not adapt quick enough (which i dont think it will) it would break down. we would essentially have to start from scratch, on a more level playing field. shit would get very real very quick.