On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:50:33 -0700 (PDT), Molly Brown
wrote:

On Jun 28, 8:41*am, "HeyBub" wrote:
Molly Brown wrote:

You re half right. Yes there is a desperation and it s due to the
unchecked increase in the population of the world. The irony is that
the people who are the least able to cope with such an increase are
the third world countries who are contributing the most to the
increase.

But the folks in third-world countries don't live very long, so it averages
out. One person in American living to 80 is equivalent to four people in
Somalia living to the ripe age of twenty.

Still, at a population density of Hong Kong, the entire world's population
would fit in West Virginia.

That thought is indeed ghastly (the West Virginia part).

That life expectancy statistic you got there is misleading. It is
derived from the number, from the moment of birth when they are most
vulnerable which skews the bell curve to a much lower age. Infant
mortality however is easily compensated for by vigorous breeding.

Right. Two who live to eighty won't have nearly as many offspring as eight
who live to twenty.