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Old 05-31-2005, 06:54 PM   #56
Orbost
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Join Date: January 23, 2005
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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
While it is certainly a side/separate topic, since it was mentioned, the world will grow by approximately 20+ million people this year. That's the population increase I'm referring to, and that's about the size of it, for anyone who is interested. I don't know what the number of deaths due to AIDS in Africa is, but I bet it's quite small compared to this. The number of deaths in Iraq in 3 years and from the Tsunami over the next 2-3 years is peanuts by comparrison.

Just FYI.
Given that population increase, the number of deaths likely to arise from a 'conventional' world war would have no significant impact on the world population, and would therefore be entirely ineffective at addressing the population crisis facing the world.

For a war to have a noticeable impact on the world population, you would need a monstrous nuclear/biological/whatever holocaust to wipe out a few billion people
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