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Global Population
Since my birth, global population has more than doubled - I think that is kind of scary, and mind-bogglingly quick.......
See how much global population has increase since you date of birth...
http://www.guardian.c...orlds-population-born
See how much global population has increase since you date of birth...
http://www.guardian.c...orlds-population-born
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There is too much obsession in keeping people alive no matter what. The advances in medicine are interfering in nature's natural selection where disease and malnutrition would normally control the population of the world without our interference. The population increasing at this rate is unsustainable but nothing will ever be done because of the 'life at all costs attitude'.
People in the western-world need to stop churning out babies as if there's some kind of global kiddie shortage. From listening to the radio, watching TV and listening to my friends talk about kids, there seems to be this attitude that more is better. Why have one child when you can have a pair? Why stop at a pair? Let's have four or five! That's what the neighbours are doing so let's mimic them and while we're at it, let's put the deposit down on the latest and greatest people-carrier whilst being careful to shop at Waitrose because they stock the most environmentally friendly coffee. Et cetera.
If infant mortality was high in 'first-world' countries then I could understand the desire to have a brood. But it isn't. In fact it's so low that an infant death is practically headline news.
As politicians keeps reminding us, we're living in perilous times; man-made climate change and our dependence on fossil fuels are leading us down an unsustainable and dangerous path. Yet our dependence and reliance upon fossil fuels is directly attributable to the number of people living today. Reduce the number of people and the demand for fossil fuels and every other finite resource on this planet will inevitably diminish.
And yet I have never heard a single politician or 'green' activist warning about the dangers of exponential growth of the human species. I've never heard Caroline Lucas (leader of the UK Green Party) or any other environmentally 'right-on' group or individual advise people in the UK to stop having more than a couple of kids – because as everyone knows, it's everyone's human right to reproduce and reproduce and reproduce...
Even though we're all acutely aware that we live on a small world with finite resources, no one wants to talk about the elephant in the room or if they do, they never consider themselves and their family to be part of the problem. It's like sitting in your car at rush-hour and complaining about the amount of traffic...
If infant mortality was high in 'first-world' countries then I could understand the desire to have a brood. But it isn't. In fact it's so low that an infant death is practically headline news.
As politicians keeps reminding us, we're living in perilous times; man-made climate change and our dependence on fossil fuels are leading us down an unsustainable and dangerous path. Yet our dependence and reliance upon fossil fuels is directly attributable to the number of people living today. Reduce the number of people and the demand for fossil fuels and every other finite resource on this planet will inevitably diminish.
And yet I have never heard a single politician or 'green' activist warning about the dangers of exponential growth of the human species. I've never heard Caroline Lucas (leader of the UK Green Party) or any other environmentally 'right-on' group or individual advise people in the UK to stop having more than a couple of kids – because as everyone knows, it's everyone's human right to reproduce and reproduce and reproduce...
Even though we're all acutely aware that we live on a small world with finite resources, no one wants to talk about the elephant in the room or if they do, they never consider themselves and their family to be part of the problem. It's like sitting in your car at rush-hour and complaining about the amount of traffic...
Well what, though, of the future? Will people have to go on enduring such harsh realities of life indefinitely? To complicate matters, what about the doom and gloom that environmental scientists and others are forecasting as a result of the continued population growth? They tell us that we are fouling our own nest by polluting the air, water, and soil we depend on. They also point to the greenhouse effect—emission of gases, such as carbon dioxide, methane, chlorofluorocarbons (refrigerants and foaming agents), that will result in warming of the atmosphere and changes in the global weather pattern, with dire consequences. Will this finally bring about the demise of civilization as we know it?
I agree with dave. While it is wonderful that people live so long, and very prem babies now survive, this isn't the way it used to be, so many more people survive respectively, on top of the increased birth rate. There is also this desperation that every woman needs a baby - the fact I couldn't was something I came to terms with years ago - there is no compulsion for IVF and similar procedures.
