The Population Problem - 6,890,646,738 and increasing at 207,000 per day
No one can deny that a global population forecast to reach 9 Billion within the next 40 years is going to place an immense strain on our planet. Every extra body adds to our waste and pollution and requires more food, more of our precious resources and more energy.
Yet controlling that global population growth is a very difficult task. Even China, with its dictatorial one child policy for the last 30 years, still saw a 30% increase in its population over that time. What chance is there of achieving any substantial reduction in the developed world with our individual rights and religious philosophies?
We can make little impact on reducing population growth, but we can make substantial impact on the way our economy is structured to minimise its impact on our planet. We have the technology today for us to have 100% renewable energy. Everything on the planet can be recycled. Fish stocks can be managed. Food distribution patterns changed.
All it needs is political pressure being applied to the key governments of the world. Preferably from all 6,890,646,738 of us!
posted by TheJollyGreenCapitalist at
3:36 AM
2 Comments:
Greens policy aimed at reducing population pressure supports greater aid directed at education for women in developing and overpopulated countries. Women offered contraceptive choice have been shown to prefer smaller families. The mining industry has just stated they don't want to pay to educate the unemployed into jobs, preferring to a boost our skilled immigration intake, while Australian immigration already outstrips per head of pop. any other country in world. There is plenty we can do Keith!
February 3, 2011 at 5:27 PM
I am not saying we should not try to reduce population pressure, it is just that it will have little impact. China calculated that without their one child policy, their population would now be 1.7 Billion, rather than 1.3 Billion, but that lower figures is still 300 Million higher than it was 30 years ago when they implemented the policy.
February 3, 2011 at 9:58 PM
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