Published by the Population Fund of the United Nations the report on State of World Population. 6,000,000,000 humans who, eat, drink, sleep, use public services, spend, reproduce, exchange, transport and finally, struggle all the time and everyday to survive adversity and live sixty six years on an average that lasts their fleeting existence. Of course, the greatest proportion of growth of 78 million people who suffer each year are from the third world, with all the consequences it brings, contrary to what happens in Europe, North America and Japan where growth via increased birth rate is almost frozen. They are the poorest who have to bear most of that terrible onslaught of humans on renewable and nonrenewable natural resources, biodiversity, ecosystems, environment and everything that makes up the vast richness of these unique nations. Corollaries of this disproportionate growth “in the 4800 million people living in developing countries, about 2900 million lack basic sanitation, almost 1600 million lack access to clean water, 1200 million are homeless adequate, nearly one billion lack access to modern health services and in the less developed regions, one fifth of children do not reach the fifth grade of primary or basic education.
But if out of six billion human beings living on this tiny planet in the universe, how can we let so many people suffer. In 2050, this huge amount will have grown by 50% then the humans will be about nine billion and it will continue to grow on, until God knows when. We now reproduce much more slowly than twenty years ago, so there has to be a demographic dividend that should lead to a growth of savings and investment in poor countries. But that will not be enough. Today’s democracies must make much more of an extraordinary effort to expand coverage of their health services and education, basic pillars of human development, an issue that goes by successful anti-corruption campaigns and the strengthening of the social policies of States.
Yes, if the population grows as projected for the next century it will become increasingly crucial, that there has to be some classes with more heart and less pockets with more value and less persona, more willingness to act on behalf of disadvantaged and commitments to the least powerful. Otherwise, humanity ever more abundant and poorer comes to a time of intolerance in which it will only make the poor think that their governments are not going to remedy the situation by democratic, legal or institutional means. At that point everything will begin to fall dramatically, and then humanity will never be the same again.
Source by Ethan Hill
