International Series Seven Billion World Population, Celebration or Warning? (part 1)
The United Nations announced that the World Population reached at 7 billion on the Halloween Day in 2011. We celebrate warmly the birth of new babies and wish for their health and future happiness.
1. How many population this Globe can accommodate?
But it is noted that the World population doubled from 3 billion in 1959 to 6 billion in 1999 in ten years! And it continued to grow from 1999 level to 7 billion in 2011, a blasting increase of 16.6 % in 12 years. Astonishing is not only for a high population growth rate but also an absolute number of population on this limited Globe, while the World community including the United Nations often addressed and dealt the issue of population explosion in the developing countries.
How far this trend may be able to continue? How many population this Globe could accommodate? Should we learn from the history of the Earth that the pre-historic animal, Mammoth, became too big to feed themselves and died down because of the lack of enough food coupled with the climatic change towards the Ice Age? The population issue has two sides of a coin. It is food and depletable natural resources issue like fossil fuel and rare metals in the years to come as well as emission gas issue.
2. Aging population in industrialized countries with les working forces (To be posted in Part 2)
3. Emergence of mega-population economies (To be posted in Part 3)
4. Lost Decade in Africa (To be posted in Part 4)
5. Need for a fundamental change in the Official Development model (To be posted in Part 5 )
(2011. 11.02.) (All Rights Reserved.)
The United Nations announced that the World Population reached at 7 billion on the Halloween Day in 2011. We celebrate warmly the birth of new babies and wish for their health and future happiness.
1. How many population this Globe can accommodate?
But it is noted that the World population doubled from 3 billion in 1959 to 6 billion in 1999 in ten years! And it continued to grow from 1999 level to 7 billion in 2011, a blasting increase of 16.6 % in 12 years. Astonishing is not only for a high population growth rate but also an absolute number of population on this limited Globe, while the World community including the United Nations often addressed and dealt the issue of population explosion in the developing countries.
How far this trend may be able to continue? How many population this Globe could accommodate? Should we learn from the history of the Earth that the pre-historic animal, Mammoth, became too big to feed themselves and died down because of the lack of enough food coupled with the climatic change towards the Ice Age? The population issue has two sides of a coin. It is food and depletable natural resources issue like fossil fuel and rare metals in the years to come as well as emission gas issue.
2. Aging population in industrialized countries with les working forces (To be posted in Part 2)
3. Emergence of mega-population economies (To be posted in Part 3)
4. Lost Decade in Africa (To be posted in Part 4)
5. Need for a fundamental change in the Official Development model (To be posted in Part 5 )
(2011. 11.02.) (All Rights Reserved.)