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A similar issue was being discussed within topic https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=781192.0 . Perhaps this post should have been added to that post rather than be its own?

Ebola + WW3

Problem solved.

It is possible that third world countries will see a decrease in child mortality rates and so an increase in overall population for a short period of time, then with the increase of culture and human rights women will be less likely to have many children and focus on one or two like more advanced countries that already slowed down. Population growth charts and projections just follow the linear rates we saw in the last decades, but don't take in account many factor which may eventually see world population increase diminish.

Every country should use a solution, a family only have 2 son's
This will make zero growth population

And problem solved (in good way)
Or you can use bad way for faster solution

What's wrong with that? It's also impossible for them to have, say, a ton of gold.

It's quite possible OP was suggesting this was a good thing...

... for the price of BTC at least!

What's so good about it? It will drive the population to zero.

Then you are right, but there are many things more relevant to its demand than the population growth. Increasing the world population for 1% or 1.5% doesn't make a big difference.

No big news here.
In 20 years time, few people will be able to afford a tank of gas. Real estate too is getting more and more expensive everywhere.
If the population increases, the share one can expect to get from any finite resource will decrease. BTC like oil or land. There's nothing strange about that.

In theory it is possible if enough gold can be mined (it is not known 100% where all the gold deposits are). There is however a hard limit as to how much bitcoin can be mined.

I don't think the world population will reach this level as overcrowding and overuse of world resources will prevent the population from getting this large

That depends on productivity and the standard of living people is willing to have for them and their children.

With Ebola those 40m deaths will escalate fast. Just wait a year or two.

Indeed seems like things are getting worse: http://www.timesofoman.com/News/40383/Article-US-centre-predicts-up-to-1m-Ebola-cases-by-January-end

they should just put everyone who has ebola in quarantine, it's not that hard.

if 1BTC is 1Million in FIAT ... not a problem : 0,000001 BTC = 1µBTC = 1 unit of FIAT (1USD, 1Euro, 1Yen, 1Yuan).

It is quite hard since its somewhat difficult to detect who has ebola so it takes time and meanwhile they verify if its ebola or not it already spread.

of course is hard. unless you want to put healthy people together with sick ones, and just close one area and let all die there.

No matter how the population grows, large amount of bitcoin will still be kept by a few people. The people who keeps 1 BTC is rare. We should try to be one of the rare people group.

Ebola has actually killed very few people. It is that it kills ~50% of the people who are affected is what is scaring the world.

I don't think ebola will cause death rates to increase very much. It has been centuries since disease has caused the death rate to significantly increase (the black plague I believe) but medical technology has increased greatly since then

i am sure medical technology increased a lot, but not about Ebola. there is no hmm,  i dont know the English word. thing that you get injected soon after you get born, for many diseases we have and then prevent you to ever get sick of that disease. And there is no cure, for after you already got Ebola.

And it spreads fast, so is win/win situation for Ebola.