The Real Perils of Human Population Growth
Thanks to Steve Kurtz for this article.
The graph below, sent to me by Greg Morgan, illustrates the link between population size and CO2 emissions.
Population and CO2 (PDF, 24 KB)
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About forty years ago, the world population was only 3.5 billion, or about half of the present population of 6.7 billion people. Most of us seem to ignore or be unaware of the magnitude of this rapid expansion and the vast changes that it is causing throughout the world. Indeed, the daily and even the annual impacts of this growth go unnoticed. Yet the impacts of the growing world population on land, water, energy, and biota resources are real and indeed overwhelming.
What resources are required to secure a quality life for future generations worldwide? Will there be sufficient cropland, water, energy, and biological resources to provide adequate food and other essential human needs? Balanced against the future availability of these basic resources are the escalating needs of an ever-growing population.
For full article, visit:
http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=pimentel_29_3
May 1st, 2010 at 11:27 pm
This all is the result of the Green Revolution which was regarded at the time as a great success. The people who claimed this would appear to be those who apologise to Japan bout atom-bombs never looking at the alternative, that is the total destruction that an invasion would have caused. Difficult alternatives are never adopted until they are forced upon us.