POPULATION

Global Issue of Population

Global Issue of Population

Population

The biggest crisis facing the planet today, so big and so surrounded by the sensitive issues that most people will not solve it. Simply put there are at least 200,000 more people living today than yesterday. Tomorrow will be at least another 200,000 more. These net figures, I'm not talking about the birth, I'm talking about an average daily surplus of births over deaths. To put this in perspective there are still more people live each day than were killed in the two atomic bombings on Japan. If all you know, all you could identify by name or by a person died today, the world's population will continue to go up. Nobody knows, 200.000.

Discussion

Imagine the world's population decides to pass by your window, columns of people marching three abreast, forever, you will never see the end of the column, the queue waiting to pass you'll never get shorter. Hitler could not feed the gas chambers quickly enough, the world's population is currently growing at about 79 million per year, equivalent to a country the size of Germany, EXTRA, every year. Here's the problem. If your head and stomach are not reeling at the thought, then you do not understand the problem.

20.000 people died in the earthquake in India, the losses were made before the West heard the news. People are losing faith in God over a much smaller number of deaths. 98 die in a football stadium and the city grieves for many years, 0,03% of the daily increase. There may be more than 98 additional people who were born during a toast to your oil. It was not even caused a surge in hourly trends. Jumbo jet load every three minutes, jumbo jet load EXTRA. Remember, I'm not talking about the birth occurs more than one second, I'm talking about an average surplus of births over deaths.

Population problem was first brought to Western attention by Thomas Malthus. He has clouded the issue with talk of food supplies and arithmetic relations. This allowed some people to "prove him wrong." The main problem is obvious, the population may grow geometrically if it is allowed. It was a critical point of view that helped Darwin crystallize his thoughts about evolution.

People can argue, as they do, that the world could cope with a population of 25 or even 50 billion dollars. Maybe they are right. What happens when we reach saturation at 50 billion rubles (or 7 billion, or that the saturation turns out) that will make people stop growing, then? The higher the number, the faster growth. Ultimately, we need birth control or population will be limited in a natural way, hunger, pandemic disease and war in order to ensure their livelihood. Imagine a world which has reached saturation, imagine trying to slow down when the population is still growing at 5 or 10 times per second. New Calcutta, Cairo or Mexico City each week. It's too scary to think ...