The Population Solution
Question... 1. Most people assume that human numbers will stabilize at some
point in the future. Discuss the conditions which can contribute to the solution
of the population explosion.
"Let us suppose that the average human being weighs 60 kilogram's. If
that's the case then 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 people would weigh as much as
the whole Earth does. That number of people is 30,000,000,000,000 times as many
people as there are living today. It may seem to you that the population can go
up a long, long time before it reaches the point where there are
30,000,000,000,000 times as many people as there are today. Let's think about
that though. Let us suppose that the population ...
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i on would weigh as much as the entire Solar system, including the Sun...
and by about 6700 AD - the human population would weigh as much as the entire
Universe." The preceding paragraph, by Isaac Asimov describes quite alarmingly
just how bad the population problem really is, that in considerably less time
that has passed since the days of Julius Caesar the population will equal in
mass of that of the earth. Most people assume that human numbers will stabilize
at some point in the future. Hopefully it will, but not without conditions that
will contribute to the solution of the population explosion, conditions which
include education, birth control methods and government action.
Although not the largest in terms of population size, Kenya has one of
the highest rates natural increase in the world. This rapid growth rate, which
is predicted to reach 120 million by the year 2050, is primarily due to high
birthrates and low death rates. Alarmingly, more than half of its ...
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mainly with the education of women. In most third world countries,
the woman's job is to take care of the children, but when educated, most will
want to pursue other lifestyles such as a career instead of adding to the
population problem. Another form of education that can contribute to the
population problem is to educated both men and women on the use of
contraceptives or birth control.
Even though statistics say that the world is headed towards a
disastrously increasing overuse of precious resources because of its increasing
population, many still stand against the use of contraceptives and other forms
of birth control. Even those educated on the population problem ...
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