tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post28974119610265080..comments2024-03-28T10:05:08.122-04:00Comments on BLCKDGRD: Ten Times That If You Count the DeadUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-6418970116572772092018-03-15T10:40:32.110-04:002018-03-15T10:40:32.110-04:001)our friends at wikipedia tell us that les murray...1)our friends at wikipedia tell us that les murray, born 1938, is regarded as "the leading Australian poet of his generation"<br /><br />2)i find a place where today's poem, 'the margin of difference', is attributed to his 'collected poems', copyright 2000<br /><br />3)its figure of 'five billion' for the world population suggests an earlier composition date: our friends at wikipedia say<br /><br /> <b>The Day of Five Billion, <i>11 July 1987, </i>was designated by the United Nations Population Fund as the approximate day on which world population reached five billion.</b><br /><br /> 3a) according to <b>the population reference bureau</b>, at the midpoint of the twentieth century world population was about 2.5 billion people, and now it is 7.2 billion<br /><br /> 3b)in estimating how many people have ever lived, they assume "human" population - modern homo sapiens - began fifty thousand years ago, and postulate steady population growth since then - while acknowledging that this underestimates births and deaths - if at the dawn of the agricultural era, about 8,000 years ago, world population was about five million, then they estimate that 108 billion people had been born as of 2011<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020960402708303830.post-63754813181781123352018-03-14T21:19:45.446-04:002018-03-14T21:19:45.446-04:00Cats knock things over because Freedom. Think abou...Cats knock things over because Freedom. Think about it.Mongo, At The Momenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00973606827337262084noreply@blogger.com