International Series Seven Billion World Population, Celebration or Warning? (part 3)
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? ( Posted in Part 1 )
2. Aging population in industrialized countries with les working forces ( Posted in Part 2 )
3. Emergence of mega-population economies
Secondly, two newly emerged countries with mega-population, namely China and India, occupy already one-third of the total world population, and continue to grow faster than most industrialized countries. Their GDP will grow faster too. It is good when industrialized countries are facing economic difficulties. But the two countries will consume more natural resources including energy and food stuff, exhausting more carbon dioxide and heat. Although it is good for economic growth in the World, this, in turn, aggravate the global warming further and the climate change elsewhere in the World.
In China, one child policy is, in principle, adopted. But it is reported that there are uncounted population, mostly female, because many of the families want to have babies until they have baby boys as heir so that it may be difficult to contain population growth.
In India, although there is no such policy, people in the wealthy and educated higher echelon of population, roughly top 10 % or so, tend to have two children, not more. But people in the lower echelon, especially lowest one, tend to have much higher birth rate because children, as they grow, would bring money to their families. Therefore, population in India would grow as fast as before.
It is critical for them to curtail the consumption of important natural resources such as petroleum and rare metals as well as food stuff while trying to reduce emission of carbon dioxide and contain population increase.
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? ( Posted in Part 1 )
2. Aging population in industrialized countries with les working forces ( Posted in Part 2 )
3. Emergence of mega-population economies
Secondly, two newly emerged countries with mega-population, namely China and India, occupy already one-third of the total world population, and continue to grow faster than most industrialized countries. Their GDP will grow faster too. It is good when industrialized countries are facing economic difficulties. But the two countries will consume more natural resources including energy and food stuff, exhausting more carbon dioxide and heat. Although it is good for economic growth in the World, this, in turn, aggravate the global warming further and the climate change elsewhere in the World.
In China, one child policy is, in principle, adopted. But it is reported that there are uncounted population, mostly female, because many of the families want to have babies until they have baby boys as heir so that it may be difficult to contain population growth.
In India, although there is no such policy, people in the wealthy and educated higher echelon of population, roughly top 10 % or so, tend to have two children, not more. But people in the lower echelon, especially lowest one, tend to have much higher birth rate because children, as they grow, would bring money to their families. Therefore, population in India would grow as fast as before.
It is critical for them to curtail the consumption of important natural resources such as petroleum and rare metals as well as food stuff while trying to reduce emission of carbon dioxide and contain population increase.
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.)
