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7 Billion population and environment pollution
Today world population is 7 billion. But do you know the impact of these 7 billion population to the environment? Read this article @ greensymbol.
7.03 billion and it hit 7 in August, most likely. It is the single root cause of all environmental problems. There are many other factors which make them worse. It is not really "new" news. Universal women's rights, free contraception and education on the ecology would help, along with dozens of other programs to eliminate fossil fuel use and slash and burn agriculture, compost to replenish lost soils, reduce water use by efficiency and recycling, plant billions of trees, education to slash consumption, transition to environmental steady state economy, and legislation against greed.
The human race, especially men, are driven by their instinct to grow, which is so strong they don't want to think about anything else. Even our highly intelligent President Obama wants to put the millions of unemployed back to work by growing the economy, even though pollution is growing right along with our growing population and our growing economy. The problem is, planet Earth is NOT growing, but in fact slowly shrinking with each volcano and earthquake. The men of the World sense this instinctively and that is why astronomers are searching the Cosmos for other living planets to go to when this one is all used up and polluted, which is absurd since there would be no way to transport billions of people millions of miles into space. But instinct is not rational, so both the searching and the polluting go right on regardless. That is the madness of our human species.
But there is another instinct -- survival. When we sense danger we react defensively. So, today we environmental activists try to persuade our macho friends and neighbors to please stop and think about what they are doing while there is still time before the biosphere collapses around everyone as the pollution strangles the life-support systems we obviously cannot live without. Is there time to transform the human race from blind economic predators to sensitive ecologists? I tend to waffle between hope and despair.
Last edited by nrdthxpr; 12-26-2011 at 02:55 PM.
I'm saying this can be a reason. I know this is not the reason effect 100%.Originally Posted by Val
Survival---I, too, tend to waffle between hope and despair. We had hope so only went with one child and went to all solar living, composting, low water use, growing food, and the three "R"s lifestyle. For the survival of future humanity.
Yet not enough people have done the same. Time to change the future course of history is slipping away.
It really has been slipping away since Earth Day One, when there were only half the people. The Earth was overpopulated with humans back then, but global warming, six oceanic trash gyres in depleted, acidic oceans, and vastly depleted soils and aquifers were unseen. Visible pollution was addressed and "cured" for a while, and a generation grew up with environmentalism and hope, as bigger environmental problems loomed. The international community got together to help stop the depletion of our necessary ozone protective layer, and began some programs to help women with contraception and education for family planning. People like Dennis Weaver and other celebrities went green.
Then the fossil fuel companies put vast efforts into stopping action on global warming while fundamentalists stopped family planning and women's rights. People became more dumbed down even as more was known and worse than worst case scenarios began playing out. People feared the stopping of fossil fuel use necessary for the survival of our future generations.
The sales people and profiteers did not want to lose customers, but to get more and more. The religions wanted to expand, not contract. Governments wanted more taxes, not less. They want continued indefinite growth on a finite planet, and let the future generations take care of themselves through some technical miracle that will not exist. Let the greed of now go on, and try to hide the pollution and depletion until it is actually visible nearly everywhere, and far too late.
Val,
Sometimes I wonder if the Earth is no more than a tiny cell in the Cosmic body, but the ravenous appetite of humanity is turning it malignant. If I didn't know from my personal experience that the afterlife is real (but not physical) I would be in absolute despair. But at least I tried, so perhaps the being of light will forgive me.
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