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james_davis_nicollSpotted over on Tor:
the premise of Miracle Day, the upcoming American Torchwood series; people stop dying and as this comment from the reviewer asserts:
[nobody mention Death Takes a Holiday]
The human death rate on Earth is about 60 million a year IIRC, so the net effect of people not dying is for the net population growth rate to go up by about 0.9% per year. That doesn't seem like it should lead to calamitous overcrowding in the short run (although that is a significant bump in net population growth).
Dear the science fiction community: why do so many of your books, shows, movies and articles read like they were written by the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, in which one of the worst possible outcomes is for there to be more people?
the premise of Miracle Day, the upcoming American Torchwood series; people stop dying and as this comment from the reviewer asserts:
the planet’s population threatens to increase by millions as the weeks go on, so the world turns to the only person who has experience with not dying: Captain Jack Harkness.
[nobody mention Death Takes a Holiday]
The human death rate on Earth is about 60 million a year IIRC, so the net effect of people not dying is for the net population growth rate to go up by about 0.9% per year. That doesn't seem like it should lead to calamitous overcrowding in the short run (although that is a significant bump in net population growth).
Dear the science fiction community: why do so many of your books, shows, movies and articles read like they were written by the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, in which one of the worst possible outcomes is for there to be more people?
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Date: 2011-01-15 06:42 pm (UTC)The real problem is probably not population accumulation, but inability to care for increasing numbers of people with terminal illnesses and injuries. (I say people: were animals also affected? That would be even worse.)