Verfasst von Alicia Bottoms (nicht überprüft) am 21 November, 2008 - 07:25.
I have thought for a long time now that something must be done to reverse our global population growth. As we all know, our population is exponentially growing at a faster and faster rate. Check out this amazing World Clock: When one looks at all of our global environmental problems, overpopulation seems to lurk behind each one--global warming of course, food shortages, territory disputes, overfishing of the oceans, clearcutting, air pollution, and animal extinction (for me, one of the worst). The pace of the degradation of our planet's resources quickens as each generation is born into a new norm. This is a delicate issue. The decision to limit childbearing worldwide could be encouraged with incentives by governments as it has been in China but ultimately would have to be voluntary and would require massive education on a global scale. If we could devise a strategy to reduce the number of births worldwide and set a reduction quota for each country, we could slow down the destruction, which would give us more time to solve some of the problems being caused by too many people vying for the steadily declining amount of resources available.
I have thought for a long
I have thought for a long time now that something must be done to reverse our global population growth. As we all know, our population is exponentially growing at a faster and faster rate. Check out this amazing World Clock: When one looks at all of our global environmental problems, overpopulation seems to lurk behind each one--global warming of course, food shortages, territory disputes, overfishing of the oceans, clearcutting, air pollution, and animal extinction (for me, one of the worst). The pace of the degradation of our planet's resources quickens as each generation is born into a new norm. This is a delicate issue. The decision to limit childbearing worldwide could be encouraged with incentives by governments as it has been in China but ultimately would have to be voluntary and would require massive education on a global scale. If we could devise a strategy to reduce the number of births worldwide and set a reduction quota for each country, we could slow down the destruction, which would give us more time to solve some of the problems being caused by too many people vying for the steadily declining amount of resources available.