http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/print/2011/01/seven-billion/kunzig-text
Above is an article that was cited on CNN.com about the world population reaching 7 Billion very soon and how we will be able to adapt to the growth in decades to come. "Seven billion of us soon, nine billion in 2045"
It is uneasy thinking about the baby boomers getting older, the largest population group, (18-24) getting ready to have children and the effects it will have on the U.S. and the world. Another uneasy thing is the economy and how all of this revolves around the economy. Thousands of Baby Boomers are retiring dailey and are using up their Social Security, that we will never see.
What do you think? Do we need to focus on sexual education aborad so less poor children are born? Or should we take an approach like we did after WWI and mind our own business and take care of our own problems? To those like the last choice, we can do that and become very independent but what others do in Africa or Asia will affect us here.
That's a lot of people. It is a mathematics problem that goes exponentially. However, does it have to be a problem? How can the human race make the most of have more people than ever before? My ideas are increase farming to feed everyone. Increase medical services to treat everyone. Increase living arrangements to house everyone. You get the idea increase, increase and increase.The populations grow comes more jobs and more everything but more that grows with population evenly. The best positive outcome to the human race from the individuals point of view is the required work week hours will shrink allowing more time for individual creativity and positive human advancement. I thought from an optimist.
ReplyDeleteI think it is an resource issue. If there is a growing population that will have more than tripled in 100 years the earth will not be able to sustain everyone. I do not know figures, but it seems like we deplete natural resources faster than they are created. It will be interesting to see in the next 50 years how natural resources are distributed and if there will be a ration system.
ReplyDeleteI think you posed a good question. I always thought that people in third world countries needed to have better sex ed classes and maybe that would help cut down on all the babies as well as AIDS/HIV. I kind of agree with Kamal. Resources are a big issue, but it's not impossible to deal with. I think people will start building upward for housing. I think that as the world grows, people will start developing the land that no one lives in i.e. Alaska and Idaho. These are states with low populations have lots of land.
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