Science Daily.com reports that soon this year we will reach 7 billion people in the entire world population. In 1999 there was 6 billion, this means that in 12 years we gained an extra 1 billion people.The United Nations, expects around 10.1 billion people by 2100. At least these projected people will be occupying most of today's areas that are not as populated and Africa.
Still this insane amount of people that have not even been born yet are already causing problems for those of us who are already here. We now have to think about food supply, water supply, housing, and energy. This also means that with less space, everyone will be in closer distances of each other. This means that disease can go through populations a lot quicker. Health will be another top priority to worry about. David Bloom from the Harvard School of Public Health said "Those challenges are not insurmountable, but we cannot deal with them by sticking our heads in the sand. We have to tackle some tough issues ranging from the unmet need for contraception among hundreds of millions of women and the huge knowledge-action gaps we see in the area of child survival, to the reform of retirement policy and the development of global immigration policy. It's just plain irresponsible to sit by idly while humankind experiences full force the perils of demographic change."
Original Article from: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110728144933.htm
Wow! That's so interesting. It's so sad that we have more than enough food to feed everyone on the earth, and yet people are starving every day. And with this increase in population, the problem will just become more severe.
ReplyDeleteI thought this was a very interesting article too. Another point is that as human population increases, so will the number of animals on the planet which can increase disease spread even more drastically. Government leaders really need to address population growth, since the Earth is not getting any larger.
ReplyDeleteThis article caught my eye as well. With the large increase in human population, resources will be decreasing drastically due to more demand than supply. The animals may even decrease in population due our human invasion of their habitat. This issue definitely makes one think about the future.
ReplyDeleteWow! Seven billion people, that number is hard to fathom. Soon the rest of the world will catch up and resemble my home state of New Jersey, the most densely populated state in the country.
ReplyDeleteChina is a populous country and it already has about 1.4 billion people. I have to admit that the large increase in human polulation will be an environmental disruption, and the threaten of environmental hormone to existence of wild animals.
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