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Planet could be 'unrecognizable' by 2050, experts say
WASHINGTON (AFP) - – A growing, more affluent population competing for ever scarcer resources could make for an "unrecognizable" world by 2050, researchers warned at a major US science conference Sunday.

The United Nations has predicted the global population will reach seven billion this year, and climb to nine billion by 2050, "with almost all of the growth occurring in poor countries, particularly Africa and South Asia," said John Bongaarts of the non-profit Population Council.

To feed all those mouths, "we will need to produce as much food in the next 40 years as we have in the last 8,000," said Jason Clay of the World Wildlife Fund at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

"By 2050 we will not have a planet left that is recognizable" if current trends continue, Clay said

People tend to move up the food chain as their incomes rise, consuming more meat than they might have when they made less money, the experts said.

It takes around seven pounds (3.4 kilograms) of grain to produce a pound of meat, and around three to four pounds of grain to produce a pound of cheese or eggs, experts told AFP.

so yos, be a vegetarian!

and save the world please, in your tiny little ways!!!!!!!
if possible, turn vegetarian!
and stop switching on your airconditioner for no reasons,
it doesnt help because its going to make things worse on the longer run
stop using plastic bags, just BRING that freaking cloth bag thingo

PLEASE. SAVE THE EARTH. IT IS DYING...