How To Save People On Earth

Seven milliard people, it’s a growing tendency. The world population grows more and more. A team of illustrious researchers today shows helping measures for both people and environment. Their proposals include strict cuts.

Every 5 days, since the present day up to 2050, the world population will be growing up  as if a new city with 1 million inhabitants comes to shows up in a developing Country. This is a metaphor to picture the data: at the present time the world population is increasing 80 million individuals per year and this phenomenon is particularly remarkable in the poorest areas of the world.

Is it possible to share the last sources of our planet in an equal way, so that even 8, 10 or 11 milliards people could live a decent  life? And how could we restrain the population growth? A team of researchers under the English Royal Society presents a catalogue of measures meant to help both the human genre and the Earth to preserve themselves for the next 100 years.

The researchers keep from saying anything about a data: how many people the Earth can, let’s say, include in itself. This depends mostly on how people live and how much they consume.

The human presence on the planet appear to be pretty worrying, as the scientists of the Nobel Prize for the Medicine John Sulston (Manchester University) write. In the wealthy Countries of the planet consumes enormously exceed the sustainable levels for the 7 milliards people living today in the world. In the same time, 1,3 milliards of them live below the poverty line, living with less than $1,25 per day.

Less consumes, better education opportunities

The researchers see this as the first challenge to face for people:

§  Life conditions for the poorest people should be improved. To do this it’s necessary – as the researchers advice – that the population in the developing Countries slow down their increasing growth. This would help to avoid catastrophes due to hunger, moreover a better healthy service should be possible in the poorest areas of the world.

§  The second point focuses on the industrialization and the emerging markets issue, whose production and consuming level are constantly increasing. Consumers should pay the main cost of the goods they buy, as the scientists suggest. In the same time, they also underline that the renewable energy and the efficient recycling are to be reinforced. In short, deforestation and other activities that may damage the environment should get limited.

§  Third aspect: scientists point on the population growth. Coercive measures don’t work, they say. However, the demand of contraceptives is getting so bigger that it is hard to face it adequately. Better educational programs are therefore important: people who got a high education live longer and healthier and they also are in the condition to decide if and how many children to have.

§  Finally, the researchers remind that the population growth and the environment issues shouldn’t be considered as two separated themes.

Goals are hard to achieve. That the sustainable use of the sources can be reached only through a joined international action, is by now very clear. It is, therefore, necessary -  as these researchers write – a politic long term guideline focused on ongoing goals. This is one of the issues that the Governments will debate soon in the Rio+20-Gipfel in next June.

Babies in a clinic in India: 1,2 milliards people live in the Asiatic subcontinent.