Global Population Will Hit 7 Billion this Month. Sustainability Published on October 12th, 2011 | by Earth Policy Institute A crowded street in Shanghai, China By Brigid Fitzgerald Reading 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.
With populations stabilizing in much of the industrial world, almost all population growth in the near future is expected to occur in developing countries. Differences in population growth rates are largely due to varying fertility levels. Family Planning & Population Stability Evidence suggests that many women in poor, fast-growing countries would have fewer children if they had the resources and freedom to plan the number and timing of their births.
Tags: family planning, Japan, Mexico, niger, population, resources, south korea, United States. iContraception? Smart Birth Control Should Be As Sexy as Your Smartphone. 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? It is the right balance of style and function? Will it do everything I want faster and better than the competition? Consumers and want-to-be consumers chat, Tweet and blog about the features they love, the bugs they hate, and the software or hardware changes they would like to see next time around.
What if every year, Americans pored over academic blogs, FDA approval chatter and leaked corporate press releases for clues about what’s next? 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. The Earth Blog : Giving The Earth A Future - Bravenet Blog. Breathingearth - CO2, birth & death rates by country, simulated real-time. Overpopulation -- The Population Explosion, by Paul and Anne Ehrlich. Why is the global economy constrained by the energy cost of energy? Overpopulation THE POPULATION EXPLOSIONby 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. For instance, the deputy editor in chief of Forbes magazine pointed out recently, in connection with a plea for more population growth in the United States: "If all the people from China and India lived in the continental U.S.
The appropriate response is "So what? " When people think of crowded countries, they usually contemplate places like the Netherlands (1,031 per square mile), Taiwan (1,604), or Hong Kong (14,218). By this standard, the entire planet and virtually every nation is already vastly overpopulated. Professor John P. Mr. UNEP Feature 1994/8 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Overpopulation: The Human Population Crisis. 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 1012 light-years. This is an example of exponential or geometric growth, where the rate of growth is always proportional to it's present size. Exponential growth also applies to the the human population. It begins growing very slowly, but over generations the growth rate increases more and more rapidly, similar to a snowball affect. Overpopulation isn't just population density (amount of people per landmass). So much focus is placed on the rapid population growth in third world countries. Lifespan/Quantity vs. Nature is a balance of existence. National Geographic: Eye in the Sky--Overpopulation. Skip to this page's content National Geographic Society P.O.
Box 98199 Washington, DC 20090-8199 USA Sign In Join Search National Geographic Search NationalGeographic.com Search Video Connect: Current Issue April 2014 Table of Contents » Published: January 2011 Subscriptions Home Delivery. Overpopulation. Human population growth and overconsumption are at the root of our most pressing environmental issues, including the species extinction crisis, habitat loss and climate change.
To save wildlife and wild places, we use creative media and public outreach to raise awareness about runaway human population growth and unsustainable consumption — and their close link to the endangerment of other species. There are more than 7 billion people on the planet, and we're adding 227,000 more every day. The toll on wildlife is impossible to miss: Species are disappearing 1,000 to 10,000 times faster than the natural rate. It's clear that these issues need to be addressed before it's too late. The Center has been working to address the connection between rampant human population growth and the extinction crisis since 2009.
Our Population and Sustainability Program has: Distributed nearly half a million Endangered Species Condoms across all 50 U.S. states. WOA!! World Ovepopulation Awareness. Africa warned of 'slum' cities danger as its population passes 1bn | World news. 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.
By then, there will be three times as many people living in Africa's cities, and the continent that had fewer than 500,000 urban dwellers in 1950 may have 1.3 billion. The breakneck transformation of a rural population into a predominantly urban one is neither good nor bad on its own, says UN-Habitat, the Nairobi-based agency that monitors the world's built environment. But in a report it implored African countries to plan their cities better, to avoid mega-slums and vast areas of deprivation developing across the continent. "The pattern is ... oceans of poverty containing islands of wealth. Cairo is now Africa's largest urban area, with 11 million people, but the UN said that by 2015 it will have been overtaken by Lagos, with around 12.4 million inhabitants.
POPULATION: The Multiplier of Everything Else. 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. One thing is certain: The planet and its resources are finite, and it cannot support an infinite population of humans or any other species. A second thing is also certain: The issue of population is too important to avoid just because it is controversial.