WORLD Population- Rising or Falling?
Guardian UK /Population
World ‘population bomb’ may never go off as feared,finds study
Population likely to peak sooner and lower than expected with beneficial results – but *environment is priority*
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/27/world-population-bomb-may-never-go-off-as-feared-finds-study
The long-feared “population bomb” may not go off, according to the authors of a new report that estimates that human numbers will peak lower and sooner than previously forecast.
The study, commissioned by the Club of Rome, projects that on current trends the world population will reach a high of 8.8 billion before the middle of the century, then decline rapidly. The peak could come earlier still if governments take progressive steps to raise average incomes and education levels.
The new forecasts are good news for the global environment. Once the demographic bulge is overcome, pressure on nature and the climate should start to ease, along with associated social and political tensions.
Read more:www.theguardian.com/…
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There is no need for panic; we've made that mistake before. In the second half of the 20th century the world was panicking about unstoppable population growth. The number of people on the planet more than tripled in seven decades, from 2.5 billion in 1950 to around eight billion in 2022.Jan 30, 2023 Opinion | The Alternative, Optimistic Story of Population Decline
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Reducing inequality could see world population fall to 6 billion
A projection of how the global population will change by the Club of Rome is far below United Nations estimates and numbers could drop even faster if we invest more in reducing poverty and inequality, it says
By Michael Le Page
Sperm decline
Will Fertility problems affect our overpopulation?
In 2022 there are over 8 billion people alive on earth
Human overpopulation is the concept of a human population becoming too large to be sustained by its environment or resources in the long term. The idea is usually discussed in the context of worldpopulation, though it may also concern individual nations, regions,
America's fertility rates are falling. That's cause for celebration, not fearmongering.
We've seen too many news stories warning of economic collapse and not-so-subtly blaming selfish women for not having enough children.
www.nbcnews.com/…
Which country is losing the most population?
China is forecast to lose almost half of its people by 2100, plunging from more than 1.4 billion to 771 million inhabitants. Russia, Germany, South Korea and Spain are all set to join this downward movement, with their populations beginning to decline by 2030.Jan 20, 2023
Is the population of the world rising or falling?
The world population has grown rapidly, particularly over the past century: in 1900, there were fewer than 2 billion people on the planet. The world population is around 8.05 billion persons in 2023. Two metrics determine the change in the world population: the number of babies born and the number of people dying.
https://ourworldindata.org › world-...
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(A UN report last year said the global population would be at 9.7 billion in 2100 (it's 8 billion today) & still grow for decades after that. This report says its figures may be more accurate as it is also modeling the effect income and education has on fertility rates.)
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World Population Clock:
Earth is overpopulated:
overpopulation-project.com
Because there are too many of us to share the Earth fairly with other species and with future human generations, Earth is overpopulated
How many people can Earth handle? www.bbc.com/...
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The United Nation's latest global population projection predicts there will be 8 billion people on the planet by November and that the population will gradually increase to 8.5 billion by 2050 and to more than 10 billion by 2080. That growth will come with significant economic and environmental implications
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Population/Feminism:
More Women Are Saying No To Motherhood. Will Society Ever Listen?
The child-free by choice movement is growing online, but women say they're still feeling pressured in their day-to-day lives.huffpost.com/
Population
Decreased human populations
Some researchers have proposed that human influences on climate began earlier than is normally supposed (see Early anthropocene for more details) and that major population declines in Eurasia and the Americas reduced that impact and led to a cooling trend.
The Black Death is estimated to have killed 30% to 60% of the European population.[139] In total, the plague may have reduced the world population from an estimated 475 million to 350–375 million in the 14th century.[140] It took 200 years for the world population to recover to its previous level.[141] William Ruddiman proposed that those large population reductions in Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East caused a decrease in agricultural activity. Ruddiman suggests that reforestation took place as a result, with the effect of causing additional carbon dioxide uptake from the atmosphere, leading to cooling noted during the Little Ice Age. Ruddiman further hypothesized that a reduced population in the Americas after European contact occurred in the 16th century could have had a similar effect.[142][143] In a similar vein, Koch and others in 1990 suggested that as European conquest and disease brought by Europeans killed as many as 90% of Indigenous Americans, approximately 50 million hectares of land may have returned to a wilderness state, causing increased carbon dioxide uptake.[144] Other researchers have supported depopulation in the Americas as a factor and have asserted that humans cleared considerable amounts of forest to support agriculture in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans brought on a population collapse.[145][146] Richard Nevle, Robert Dull and colleagues further suggested that not only anthropogenic forest clearance played a role in reducing the amount of carbon sequestered in Neotropical forests but also that human-set fires played a central role in reducing biomass in Amazonian and Central American forests before the arrival of the Europeans and the concomitant spread of diseases during the Columbian exchange.[147][148][149] Dull and Nevle calculated that reforestation in the tropical biomes of the Americas alone from 1500 to 1650 accounted for net carbon sequestration of 2-5 Pg.[148] Brierley conjectured that the European arrival in the Americas caused mass deaths from epidemic disease, which caused much abandonment of farmland. That caused much forest to return, which sequestered greater levels of carbon dioxide.[13] A study of sediment cores and soil samples further suggests that carbon dioxide uptake via reforestation in the Americas could have contributed to the Little Ice Age.[150] The depopulation is linked to a drop in carbon dioxide levels observed at Law Dome, Antarctica.[145] A 2011 study by the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology asserts that the Mongol invasions and conquests, which lasted almost two centuries, contributed to global cooling by depopulating vast regions and by allowing for the return of carbon-absorbing forest in cultivated land.[151][152]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_anthropocene
"But the authors caution that falling birthrates alone will not solve the planet’s environmental problems, which are already serious at the 8 billion level and are primarily caused by the excess consumption of a wealthy minority"
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from Nature.org:
"The average carbon footprint for a person in the United States is 16 tons, one of the highest rates in the world. Globally, the average carbon footprint is closer to 4 tons."
About 20% of greenhouse gases in the US come from homes amp.cnn.com/…
HELP SAVE THE PLANET AND OURSELVES:
Turn out the lights when
not in use/use less
- Turn down the heat or AC
- vent out at night if cooler
- Avoid creating nighttime light pollution
- Don’t waste water
- Avoid burning wood (or other things), as wood fires are both pollutant and carcinogenic
- Don't use pesticides
- Limit your use of cars and planes (if possible)
- Don't use gas powered vehicles
- Take out grass and put in a garden or pond (or xeriscape )
- Mow, blow, and whack with electric or by hand
- Plant for the animals (bees, birds etc)
- Plant trees
- Don't micro manage yards, go wilder
- Try to use solar
- Take a bus, trolley or train
- Encourage your city/town to use electric buses
- Use energy efficient products or products that work on clean fuels
- Reduce dependence on non-biodegradable items
- Walk, bike or carpool
- Reuse items- give to Goodwill or Craig's list rather than dumping
- Cut down or cease eating meat
- Use reusable carry bags for grocerie; second choice, paper bags; not plastic
- Compost
- Save the bees
- Be informed
- Write your representative, sign petitions
- Elect pro-environment candidates and demand action
- Support the Green New Deal
- Get involved
- March
- Blog about the environment
- Control population
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