Masses are living in substandard conditions across many countries and capitalistic economies putting a major strain on earth’s resources. Can humanity provide a good standard of living for all as the population keeps increasing?
Approximately two centuries ago, the human population on earth stood below a mere one billion. Over a century later, that population grew by another billion.
This leads to several questions touching upon a range of issues, from equal distribution of wealth and resources to protecting our natural habitat. “As the climate crisis and biodiversity loss worsen, it will only get harder to meet the needs of everyone on the planet as our population grows.”With the world’s most prosperous countries consuming the bulk of its resources, population growth is concentrated in the poorest countries that lack sufficient resources to support their inhabitants.
The global population growth up to 2050 is estimated to be concentrated in eight countries: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and Tanzania.
“We can’t take population stabilisation for granted – it will only happen if we continue increasing access to voluntary reproductive healthcare, gender equity, and education for women and girls,” Feldstein says. “Much of that is already happening and could get worse. But I am an optimist. I believe the turnaround towards creative forms of adaptive governance involving natural farming and massive shifts in land-tenure relations is not entirely utopian,” he adds.
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