Comments on: We Will Never See 400 http://www.futurist.com/2006/10/18/we-will-never-see-400/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:02:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: mod*mom http://www.futurist.com/2006/10/18/we-will-never-see-400/#comment-630 mod*mom Fri, 05 Jan 2007 05:01:40 +0000 http://www.futurist.com/2006/10/18/we-will-never-see-400/#comment-630 from your title, i thought you meant we'd all die out from global warming effects before we hit 400. i didn't know there was a population decline since 1980. commenter chris ware has the popular idea. i think the yuppy no kids mentality of the 80s might be changing. a lot more people seem to be turning to religion in these scarey times of war + global warming + religions usually advise be fruitful + multiply. from your title, i thought you meant we’d all die out from global warming effects before we hit 400. i didn’t know there was a population decline since 1980. commenter chris ware has the popular idea. i think the yuppy no kids mentality of the 80s might be changing. a lot more people seem to be turning to religion in these scarey times of war + global warming + religions usually advise be fruitful + multiply.

]]> By: victor tang http://www.futurist.com/2006/10/18/we-will-never-see-400/#comment-627 victor tang Fri, 05 Jan 2007 02:47:27 +0000 http://www.futurist.com/2006/10/18/we-will-never-see-400/#comment-627 There is a chance of us seeing 400. If America again tops the world in technology(like fuel cells, nanotechnology and stem cells) or other stuff like economy, culture or finance(-9 trillion is a lot though), our immigration rate might jump, and immigrants could then contribute to the population through their children and grandchildren and so on. However, this can backfire on us. China has highly developed in the past few years and when its economical status surpasses that of the U.S., Mandarin could replace English as the international language, causing more people to learn it, and China's population would then increase with immigration, with some people coming from the U.S. as well. So, if our economy doesn't improve, our population won't either, it can even go down. There are obstacles that inhibit our growth and even immigration, such as high prices, job shortages and the perspective of america as an unsafe country, with the recent 9/11 and katrina. There is a chance of us seeing 400. If America again tops the world in technology(like fuel cells, nanotechnology and stem cells) or other stuff like economy, culture or finance(-9 trillion is a lot though), our immigration rate might jump, and immigrants could then contribute to the population through their children and grandchildren and so on.

However, this can backfire on us. China has highly developed in the past few years and when its economical status surpasses that of the U.S., Mandarin could replace English as the international language, causing more people to learn it, and China’s population would then increase with immigration, with some people coming from the U.S. as well.

So, if our economy doesn’t improve, our population won’t either, it can even go down.

There are obstacles that inhibit our growth and even immigration, such as high prices, job shortages and the perspective of america as an unsafe country, with the recent 9/11 and katrina.

]]> By: chris ware http://www.futurist.com/2006/10/18/we-will-never-see-400/#comment-304 chris ware Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:00:58 +0000 http://www.futurist.com/2006/10/18/we-will-never-see-400/#comment-304 i think we will see 400 million either. i disagree on what you say. the bith rate will increase and the death rate will decrease. then suddenly we will run out of space and we will eventually be catching diseases from one another. then alot of us will die because we will live so close together and we will get diseases. Oh yeahim 13 aint i smart i think we will see 400 million either. i disagree on what
you say. the bith rate will increase and the death rate will decrease. then suddenly we will run out of space and we will eventually be catching diseases from one another. then alot of us will die because we will live so close together and we will get diseases. Oh yeahim 13 aint i smart

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