Population growth
 and-what-might-be-done-to-reduce-poverty, drivers-of-population-growth, http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/
Links-to-pages-on-population---table-of-growth-in-countries-of-the-world, not-increase-it
How can carbon and other greenhouse emissions be reduced when world population is increasing from 6.1 billion now to 9 billion by 2050?
Are there humane ways to stabilise population growth so that humans can be sustained on this planet -
without adding to greenhouse emissions
without exhausting our resources of food and water
without wrecking the environment
without wiping out other life - animals and plants
?
Why cant people be helped to have sustainable-size families, and have assurances that their children can survive and that they will not starve in their own old age? Comments
Your questions go completely to the heart of the problems facing us. If we knew the answers, that would help. But we don't seem to. Or rather, we do really, but don't want to have to swallow unpalatable remedies. The outlook is grim, in my opinion, because we truly seem to be trapped in our suicidal lifestyles. I wrote a piece about this dilemma here. It doesn't answer your questions but it sort of anticipates them! Perhaps you could post a piece to OneClimate with some ideas of what we can do to extricate ourselves from this mess. I'm sure you have some... |
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That is sort of the wrong question. Population will increase about by about 50% in 42 years, but resource consumption will be up like 800%, if we follow business as usual. Population, at least, looks like it will level off. We need to figure out how to decarbonize our economies first. However, there are also lots of ways to humanely reduce the speed of population growth, particularly by fighting for mandatory primary school education and for the rights and status of women.