Population
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The number of people in the world is expected to reach 7 billion by the end of October 2011. Our rate of increase continues to slow from the high point of over 2 percent in 1968. Still, this year’s 1.1 percent increase means some 78 million people will be added to the global population in 2011. The human population did not reach 1 billion until the early nineteenth century, and it took more than 100 years to reach 2 billion.
Global Population Will Hit 7 Billion this Month | Sustainablog
iContraception? Smart Birth Control Should Be As Sexy as Your Smartphone | RH Reality Check
Having recently joined the un"I"verse, I am amazed by the breathless anticipation, the speculation and whispered rumors otherwise known as the run-up to the release of the next generation IPhone. As a reproductive health advocate, I can’t help wonder: What if we were as devoted, as critical, as insistent when it came to contraceptive technologies, as we are when it comes to cell phones? Each time a new IPhone is released, reviews and comparisons flood the internet. Is it better than the old version? Does it have enough features?
Sprawl! China Developing a New City: Pop 42 Million the Size of Switzerland
City planners and architects in China are hoping to turn the nine cities in the Pearl River Delta into a single, monster megacity with a population the of 42 million the size of Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Hampshire combined or 16,000 sq mile urban area that is 26 times larger geographically than metro London. The new mega-city will cover a large part of China's manufacturing heartland, stretching from Guangzhou to Shenzhen, accounting for nearly a tenth of the Chinese economy with an express rail line will also connect the hub with nearby Hong Kong. The un-named city is still a few years away from completion. Meanwhile, Every week humans create the equivalent of a city the size of Vancouver. What will this staggering growth mean for both nature and people? The WWF's "Living Planet" report has said that carbon pollution and over-use of Earth's natural resources have become so critical that, on current trends, we will need a second planet to meet our needs by 2030.
How is that possible? One must be wrong, and it must be the second one because we know that civilization is all; we know that to be civilized is the pinnacle of human achievement; we know that we are better than what has come before us. And that’s why Daniel Quinn is right. I’m not certain you understand what I’m saying. For sure, you probably get the meaning of the words and the sense of the syntax, but if the rest of this society is anything to go by, the chances are that you don't understand – yet . Forgive me if you do: if you truly understand, and you agree that something better than civilization is awaiting us, get on and start finding it; help others to find their better future too; hasten the end of the thing that so many of us are enamoured with.
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I have been reading "Shapeshifting for Global & Personal Transformation" by John Perkins. He puts forth the shamans perspectives. Indigenous cultures did not procreate beyond what their environments could sustain comfortably and it was because of the "indoctrination of Christianity" that changed all that. They speak about how now they have more children and they live longer and the environment cannot support their numbers. They speak of how they too got caught up in greed and almost died out before they abanodoned their cities and returned to living "in harmony with the Godess Earth". Earth is the real Godess something we fail to see in our efforts to deal with this issue is that all "technology" requires "raw materials that have to be sourced from the Earth first". Personally I do believe the Earth will shake off the excess of humanity and I really don't mind if I am one of them. I honestly don't have a problem with that. by Oct 8
is the global economy constrained by the energy cost of energy? by Paul and Anne Ehrlich Having considered some of the ways that humanity is destroying its inheritance, we can look more closely at the concept of "overpopulation." All too often, overpopulation is thought of simply as crowding: too many people in a given area, too high a population density.
Overpopulation -- The Population Explosion, by Paul and Anne Ehrlich
Overpopulation: The Human Population Crisis
by James Hopkins If you were to take a standard sheet of writing paper .1mm thick and cut it into two sheets, placing one atop the other, it would then be .2mm thick. Cutting the stack of two and making a stack of 4 sheets, it would then be .4mm thick. Believe it or not, if you continued to do this just one hundred times, doubling the size of the stack each time, the thickness of the stack would be 1.334 x 10 12 light-years. This is an example of exponential or geometric growth, where the rate of growth is always proportional to it's present size.Although people no longer talk about a catastrophic “population bomb,” world population continues to grow. Unfortunately, the most affected countries are also the ones least able to support more people.
National Geographic: Eye in the Sky--Overpopulation
Overpopulation
The world’s human population doubled from 1 to 2 billion between 1800 and 1930, and then doubled again by 1975. At the end of October 2011, it surpassed 7 billion. This staggering increase and the massive consumption it drives are overwhelming the planet’s finite resources. We’ve already witnessed the devastating effects of overpopulation on biodiversity: Species abundant in North America two centuries ago — from the woodland bison of West Virginia and Arizona’s Merriam’s elk to the Rocky Mountain grasshopper and Puerto Rico’s Culebra parrot — have been wiped out by growing human numbers.
If we don't halt population growth with justice and compassion, it will be done for us by nature, brutally and without pity - and will leave a ravaged world. Nobel Laureate Dr. Henry W.
WOA!! World Ovepopulation Awareness
Lagos, with a population set to reach 12.4 million, should, by 2015, overtake Cairo as Africa's largest city. Photograph: James Marshall/Corbis Africa has joined India and China as the third region of the world to reach a population of 1 billion people, and it is expected to double its numbers by 2050, the UN says.
Africa warned of 'slum' cities danger as its population passes 1bn | World news | The Guardian
When it comes to controversial issues, population is in a class by itself. Advocates and activists working to reduce global population growth and size are attacked by the Left for supposedly ignoring human-rights issues, glossing over Western overconsumption, or even seeking to reduce the number of people of color. They are attacked by the Right for supposedly favoring widespread abortion, promoting promiscuity via sex education, or wanting to harm economic growth. Others think the problem has been solved, or believe that the real problem is that we have a shortage of people (the so-called “birth dearth”). Still others think the population problem will solve itself, or that technological innovations will make our numbers irrelevant. How do population, water, energy, food, and climate issues impact one another?