It's no mystery...the population of the world is growing and growing and growing.
The U.N. Population Division predicts the population will increase by 2.5 billion people in the next 43 years to 9.2 billion.
Most of the population increase is expected to occur in 3rd world countries - Afghanistan, Burundi, Congo, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Niger, East Timor and Uganda.
However, "half the projected increase from 2005 to 2050 will be in eight countries -listed according to the size of their expected growth -- India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Congo, Ethiopia, the United States, Bangladesh and China, the report said."
Doing their part to keep the world's population under control - "46 countries are expected to lose population by mid-century including Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, most of the countries in the former Soviet Union, and several small island nations."
It is good have enough young people to support the aging population. But sooner or later, the old folks are going to live long enough that there won't be enough young folks to put money into the kitty to take care of them, and then the population will decline.
How many people do you think mother earth can handle?
"How many people do you think mother earth can handle?"
Currently in terms of food, 12 billion. If a lot of people became vegetarians, even more.
In terms of pollution, China is one of the worst in the world. Just look at what they're doing to Tibets forests too!
In terms of space, you could fit a fair chunk of the world with ease in Texas. Humans have a tendency to crowd together as much as possible.
The Japanese need babies!
Posted by: kristin | March 26, 2007 5:00 AM | Permalink to Comment