> Off Topic Discussions

World trends in population and environmental conditions

(1/3) > >>

Kat:
These are some interesting charts and statistics I thought I would share.
I think they speak for themselves.
Here is a link to the sight:
http://www.people.eku.edu/ritchisong/317notes3.html



-According to the U.S. Census Bureau as of Oct 2011 the world population hit 7,000,000,000 12 years again from 6 billion.
-2,000 years ago the estimated human population was 150 million
-By 1850, the human population was one billion. By 1930, it was 2 billion.
-It took 10,000 generations to reach 2 billion.
-The human population is now growing at a rate of about 3 people/second or 260 thousand/day or 1.8 million per week or 93 million/year

-Nearly half the earth's land mass already has been changed by human activity - wetlands filled in, forests cut down, prairies plowed under.

-Runoff from farms, industries, and urban areas has resulted in some 50 "dead zones" in coastal waters, including one in the Gulf of Mexico.

-Desertification is the conversion of productive rangeland or cropland into desertlike land. It is usually caused by a combination of overgrazing, soil erosion, prolonged drought and climate change.



While grain yields per acre have been increasing steadily until 1990, the rate of  increase has fallen off in the last 10 years. Most of the benefits of irrigation, machinery, fertilizer and plant breeding have already been realized. The production of grain per acre is close to the maximum obtainable through photosynthesis. Geneticists are working on improving the efficiency of photosynthesis, and that may turn out to be possible, but given that nature has been working on the problem for several hundred million years, there is no guarantee that we can improve on the process in the next 10 to 20 years. 

Conservation of Wildlife Resources
Instructor: Gary Ritchison

Deborah-Leigh:
Excellent Kat!

I have heard of the DVD called The Ozone. It is produced by Vice President to Clinton A. Gore. Apparently it too shows where the earth is heading as was foretold in the Scriptures. Here is one for Global Warming. :D

Rev 16 : 8 Then the fourth angel emptied out his bowl upon the SUN and it was permitted to burn humanity with fierce glowing heat fire.....

The scientists might think it is the depletion of the Ozone layer! It is the plan of God! How it happens is irrelevant. THAT it is going to happen is prophesy.

I believe there will be a time soon, when the world will realise what is about to come upon them and the terror and fear will reach epic proportions. Those who are depending on Christ will be shielded from the terrors while others will have no covering and they will be filled with great fear and dread.

Luke 21 : 26 Men swooning away or expiring with fear and dread and apprehension and expectation of the things that ARE COMING ON THE WORLD; for the very powers of the heavens will be shaken and caused to totter. 

Mark 4 : 19 ...the cares of this world...choke the word....

 Rev 3 : 10 Because you have guarded and kept My word of patient endurance, have held fast the lesson of My patience with the expectant endurance that I gave you, I also will keep you safe from the hour of trial, testing which IS COMING ON THE WHOLE WORLD to try those who dwell upon the earth.

Peace to you

Arcturus :)

pylady:
Kat thank you for that post.  That was so interesting. 
Arcturus and Kat, do you think that these prophesies will have a literal fulfillment as well as a spiritual one?  That brings to mind a scripture in Rev 11:18

  "And the nations were enraged, and Thy wrath came, and the time came... to destroy those who destroy the earth."

with Christian love,
                            Cindy

Kent:
Thank you!

I am passing this on to some other boards.

Kent

gmik:
Fascinating charts & graphs Kat.

Arc, I thought Rev. 16:8 was totally symbolic- well really I guess I believed that All of Rev was one giant metaphor/parable.

I haven't been "afraid" of world events since I starting reading BT. And Rev. did scare the beejeebies outta me. :D

Global warming??? A few days ago it was freezing here and snowing (altho it didn't stick).  Today was 80 out!

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page