World Population Reaches Nine Billion
August 15, 2050 - Earlier this morning a new-born girl outside of the city Djambala in the Republic of Congo was born, and became the symbolic nine billionth person in the world. The 23-year-old mother Makemba Ngollo said that she was very happy for the arrival of Titi, as the baby will be called.
Titi is purely a symbolic choice by the UN, since it is impossible to know where the exact nine billionth person is born, since several children are born every second around the world. The choice of a baby from the Republic of Congo coincides with their national holiday today as they celebrate 90 years of independence.
Argument: According to United Nations' World Population Prospects 2004 Revision, the world's population will reach 9.1 billion by 2050, with India as the most populous nation, with a projected decline in fertility to slightly over 2 children per woman in 2050 (from 2.6 children in 2004). Even though the administrative system will be more efficient in the developing parts of the world by then, it will still be difficult to determine the exact number of people in the world.
Questions: What affects on the world will the increase of the world?s population with almost 50% until 2050 have, which of course will be unprecedented in human history in number of people? Are there necessary steps that have to be taken to make sure that we for instance produce enough food for such a huge population?




Comments:
This is very alarming.
With this population am sure poverty and hunger also increases.
Thanks
Posted by: "ME"
Overpopulation is pretty much the only problem humans really need to solve these days. Almost every "problem" people are concerned with these days is really just a symptom of the underlying problem, overpopulation. Global warming, shrinking resource base, contaminated food and water supplies? They all come down to 6 billion people living on a planet that seems to have a maximum sustainable capacity of 3 to 4 billion.
Of course, population control is a non-starter for a lot of reasons, all of them political, self-serving and extremely short-sighted.
At one time, the most successful creatures on the planet were anaerobic bacteria that thrived in the primordial toxic soup of methane, ammonia and water vapor. They ruled the planet, in their own single-celled way. They emitted oxygen as a waste product. They became so successful, releasing such a vast quantity of free oxygen as a waste product, that they altered their environment to the degree that they pretty wiped themselves out and set the stage for the next group of dominant life forms, which were able to thrive in the newly oxygen-rich environment.
That sounds like where we are headed. Any efforts to reduce global warming without addressing the underlying problem of too many creatures who emit carbon dioxide as a waste product (in a multitude of ways) is likely going to delay, but not prevent, our eventual demise.
Posted by: Lamont B Dumont
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China, United States, India, Russia, France, Germany, Nigeria have not submitted to a UN panel based invistigation.
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Posted by: Religion
What is the maximum, minimum and average population of the planet for the next 500 years?
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Posted by: World Population
Does the body have charge?
Are some people more aware?
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Posted by: Bio Energy
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Posted by: Sergey
Population is driven towards equiblirium. What is the sustainable human population of the planet earth?
What is the sustainable animal population of the planet?
http://www.overpopulation.net/
Posted by: Sustainable Population
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Posted by: Jorge
1) There is about 134 Million sq Km of Land on the Planet.
2) There should be about 10 people to the sq Km.
3) 134 Million times 10 People = 1340 Million People.
So, there should be about 1.5 Billion people on the planet. That is what we would estimate to be the sustainable population.
What should we do with the excess population?
1) Create a Virus to kill off the excess population.
2) Wage a global war to kill off the excess populuation.
3) Create a creature that kills off the excess population.
4) Send the excess population to other planets.
5) Other options.
Posted by: Excess Population
Education of women is the key, and delaying marriage. Women who are less educated tend to have more kids.
Posted by: CEL
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Posted by: People
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Posted by: Bob
World Population Projections.
http://img183.imageshack.us/my.php?image=worldhumanpopulationuj7.jpg
Posted by: World Population Future
This is extremely alarming!
Posted by: lynn
though its sick the guy called excess population is kinda right
Posted by: candace
though its sick the guy called excess population is kinda right
Posted by: candace
This means Real Estate will become extremely valuable right?
Posted by: Jesse
every one needs to fucking wear a condom for 10 years. and stop this "fair trade" bullshit.
Posted by: ted
Projection of the Population.
http://img92.imageshack.us/my.php?image=populationofcountrygh9.jpg
Posted by: Human Animal
Don't worry before this happens some weird lunitic will come and kill Billions of people before we reach this number....or even better ALEINS
Posted by: Hi People
BIRTH CONTROL! Free! and lots of it! and comprehensive sex education, not just in the US, but all over the world. If we give our young people the tools to make better, more informed decisions about sex, we would see a decrease in the spread of STDs and a decline in teen (and adult) pregnancies.
Birth control. that’s it. Condoms, pills, cheep vasectomies. It could save the world.
Posted by: sarah
A global order must be set and a governing body must be introduced and a global depopulation will be imposed.Millions will be sacrificed to save humanity as poverty grows so does humanity.A virus will be created, our food will be tampered with, every one on the planet will be chiped like animals,technology will enslave mankind,fear of war on the verge,forced vaccinations for men and women alike,laws obeying these laws will be imposed, one child policies will be global all currency will be combined in to one, this 9 billion estimate will never happen as long as we have no control over our lives.you have been warned
Posted by: writings from a tyrant
World Population increases
World problems increase
Lets check it out
Posted by: Nana Frema Nettey
thats is pol shit
no one can know what will bee in future only GOD
Posted by: Anonymous