The issue affecting our natural environment, beyond AGW,
(which impacts the world the most), is population growth.
Between Global Warming and population, the planet is in crisis:
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7.7 billion people
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In demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently living, and was estimated to have reached 7.7 billion people as of November 2018.
In demographics, the world population is the total number of humanscurrently living, and was estimated to have reached 7.7 billion people as of November 2018.[1] It took over 200,000 years of human historyfor the world's population to reach 1 billion;[2] and only 200 years more to reach 7 billion.[3]
World population has experienced continuous growth since the end of the Great Famine of 1315–17 and the Black Death in 1350, when it was near 370 million.[4] The highest population growth rates – global population increases above 1.8% per year – occurred between 1955 and 1975, peaking to 2.06% between 1965 and 1970.[5] The growth rate has declined to 1.18% between 2010 and 2015 and is projected to decline further in the course of the 21st century.[5]
Total annual births were highest in the late 1980s at about 139 million,[6] and as of 2011 were expected to remain essentially constant at a level of 135 million,[7] while deaths numbered 56 million per year and were expected to increase to 80 million per year by 2040.[8] The median age of the world's population was estimated to be 30.4 years in 2018.[9]en.m.wikipedia.org/...
Impact
· The impact of so many humans on the environment takes two major forms: consumption of resources such as land, food, water, air, fossil fuels and minerals. waste products as a result of consumption such as air and water pollutants, toxic materials and greenhouse gases.
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Apr 7, 2017 · In the end, population growth plays a key role in
environmental sustainability. It can lead to the
deforestation, water pollution, and air pollution. These have a negative effect on the environment and also impact human daily lives.
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Growth
Long-term global population growth is difficult to predict. The United Nations and the US Census Bureau both give different estimates – according to the UN, the world population reached seven billion in late 2011,[102] while the USCB asserted that this occurred in March 2012.[113] The UN has issued multiple projections of future world population, based on different assumptions. From 2000 to 2005, the UN consistently revised these projections downward, until the 2006 revision, issued on March 14, 2007, revised the 2050 mid-range estimate upwards by 273 million.en.m.wikipedia.org/...
ENVIRONMENT
Why Family Planning Makes a Climate-Sustainable Future More Likely
Removing barriers to family planning would support parents’ reproductive intentions as well as more slowly growing populations.
www.alternet.org/...
Ocean Diver:
" The effects of the overpopulation of humans, and our terraforming intentional or not, are so numerous and destructive it’s not a stretch by any means to call us an invasive species. From the PCBs accumulating in my local orcas to the extinction of salmon, more effects ad infinitum, we have changed both the physical world and biosphere profoundly. I have no doubt our overreach will be our doom as a species, and frankly that’s not such a bad thing for all the rest of life on earth IMO. We can consider ourselves lucky we happen to be alive during this short window, because how amazing and beautiful the natural world is.
A book I’m reading right now, Winter World by Bernd Heinrich (the ravens guy), makes a point about humans I never thought about: humans evolved as a sub/tropical species and we haven’t been on earth long enough to change much. That would explain why we create bubbles of warmth to live in, technologically, and are most comfortable in temps in the 70s. Seems to me we have become so reliant on our bubbles we aren’t able to physiologically manage much variance from that narrow range, judging by the vast electricity used both to warm us and to cool us. Wildlife critters manage much bigger ranges of temp 24/7/365."
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More Links
www.worldometers.info/...
worldpopulationhistory.org/...
PBS Clip:
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Environment:
Why the Best New Deal Is a Green New Deal
Energized Democrats are learning from their activist base that a sustainable and just environmental plan is not only good policy, it’s good politics. www.thenation.com/...
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