http://www.un.org/esa/population/publica...
Why? Not some climate apocalypse or any such thing. It is because as countries progress and women enter the workforce, the number of children that a couple has naturally decreases.
In fact, the best way to stop overpopulation is to fight for women's rights.
Bruce, While you are correct that people in first world countries do use more water and produce more carbon, that too is changing. The amount of CO2 produced by most first world countries has leveled off and is starting to decline, including the US.
This is why it is important to reduce the cost of using renewable resources for energy, NOT increase the cost of the "dirty" power sources. Simply put, the developing world is not going inhibit their own economic growth for this, AND they should not be expected to.
As for water use, it does create some issues for water management, but that is not as concerning since water is a renewable resource.
Canis, There is no reason to believe that the human population needs to be as low as 1 billion to be sustainable. We already produce plenty of food to sustain the population we have. While there may be energy concerns for nonrenewable fossil fuels, we will be on more renewable sources before this becomes a real problem.
Beyond that, every plan I have heard to get down to 1 billion either would lead to massive wars or EXTREME limitation of rights or both. With our nuclear capacity, a world war would more thoroughly destroy our world than even the worst scenarios of AGW.
true...population's multiple and overwhelming needs have to be addressed..,.hence, technologies go with progress and development..development in its real sense is best and worst...it is in its best when it addresses human needs positively..it is in its worst when people uses development in an indiscriminate scale...where anything could be devastated and ruined...human's quest for development in all forms has burdened mother earth's capacity to sustain .....thus human need to survive have escalated to higher degree..motivated by its greed to govern and rule globally...all of these are activities human has succumbed to play inhumanly... we are now experiencing climate change unpredictably as a result to human indiscriminate and varied activities...
Hopefully when we get AN American President that cares about Americans Plus, then We'll start building space crafts and search other planets in our Universe to homestead. Mike
Raisin stole my thunder. I was going to say it was skyrocketing. Clearly humans have a profound influence on the environment. Natural disasters will have more impact on humans because there are more of them (humans that is). In addition, they have been moving into previously unoccupied places such as tidal surge areas because they are rich and the government always bails them out or because they are poor.
http://www.worldometers.info/world-popul...
This is an awesome site! I know this does not answer your question at all, but it is really interesting to look at about how many people are being born, and how many people die at this very moment. Shows so much more, hope you enjoy!
http://www.worldometers.info/watch/world...
(For this, scroll down and over. It's quite a shock!)
We should certainly act.
I am acting now.
Human population is skyrocketing on a global scale. Some form of climate change as a result of human activities is imminent. How do these statements influence the impact of natural disasters in the future?
