The worlds population has benefited greatly from years of disease eradication and no world wars in nearly 70 years.
By Lewis W. Diuguid
The Kansas City Star
However, that also means that the planet will have to house and feed
The worlds population has benefited greatly from years of disease eradication and no world wars in nearly 70 years.
By Lewis W. Diuguid
The Kansas City Star
However, that also means that the planet will have to house and feed more people. The United Nation on Thursday forecast that the planets population will increase to 8.1 billion by 2025 from todays count of 7.2 billion people.
Most of the growth will occur in the developing countries and more than half in Africa so that by 2050, the Earth will have 9.6 billion human beings 8.2 billion of them in developing regions. Developed countries population will only be 1.3 billion.
But that kind of people explosion raises concerns about planet resources. People in developing countries already want to have U.S. energy, food and other consumption habits, which far surpass this countrys share of the population.
The planet may not be able to sustain the population growth that is projected unless technology and science develop new methods of doing so again.
The worlds population was about 5 million at the start of agriculture about 8000 B.C. By 1 A.D. the population grew to about