I have written many times that the only serious
environmental problem
is not the so-called climate change, but instead the every real and
undeniable overpopulation of the earth. Just think. The world's
population has grown from a handful of people
in eastern Africa around the year 100,000 B.C. to more than 7 billion
today. It's incredible to me also that the world population in my own
lifetime has more than doubled. Doesn't anyone out there know what
birth control is?
Here's some stats about the growing population.
-For the first 100,000 years, the population did not reach 1 million,
according to the post. At 1 A.D., it was only 170 million.
-It took 200,000 years for the number of people on earth to reach 1
billion. But in the next 200 years, the population exploded to 7
billion.
-Only once in history was a significant population decline noted. That
was during the Bubonic Plague epidemic, which killed an estimated 50
million people, mostly in Europe between 1346 and 1353.
-The world population will peak around 2100 at 11 billion. That's
because fertility rates around the globe are falling.
-Worldwide, approximately one million people die every week. In that
same week, two and half million people are born. That's a 250% birth
rate.
-For the past fifty years, between 70 and 80 million new people have
been added to our planet each year . That's equivalent of adding a new
Canada to the world each year.
How will the earth feed and furnish enough water for 11 million people?
It doesn't appear the many people care. Instead, they imagine climate
change scenarios based on guesses. The growth of our human population
will eventually end somehow, whether we want it to or not. But how will
it happen? We can stop growing deliberately, of our own accord. But
humans just seem to be unwilling to stop breeding excessively.
So what
will do it? Will the population decline because of war, or famine,
disease? You tell me.
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