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Originally Posted by danielf
So why has there been such an enormous jump in the developing world from the 50s on? What changed in the 50s?
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My guess would be better medical treatments for the people in developing countries, combined with more intensive farming techniques imported from the developed world.... But, like I said, that would be a guess.
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Maybe these war's we are always fighting are humanity's own way of trying to control its population. Intresting thought lol.
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Maybe a millenia or two ago, wiping out the populations of a couple of town's would have really staunted a countries growth. These days, I think it would be less of an issue to loose 10 or 20 thousand people and have a society come to the brink of social disaster. Our recient past (WW 2), shows that cities can absorb horrible numbers of civilian casualties and damage. Yet continue to function in a fairly productive manner. If I remember correctly, the German city of Hamburg incured 36+ thousand casualties as a consequence of Operation Gommoragh (sp). Yet it still managed to function as a centre of military production, Command and Control....
I think these days, to have a really big, fast impact on the human population, you would need to bring out the really nasty weapons.... Neutron Bombs, Non-Persistant Nerve Agents and Biological Agents. Ofcourse, all of these would have to be used on high density population area, so bye-bye to the city folk....