Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

--- problems [2017/11/02 20:23]
Beth Holden
+++ problems [2017/11/03 21:27]
Beth Holden
@@ Line 2: / Line 2: @@
 //added per request of Beth 10/30/17//
+This page is for everyone to work with. Please add at least one solution for every problem you add. You may also add your solutions to those of someone else, or offer a new, improved version of an existing solution: Solution #2. Or, Problem Modified: may be added to better state a given problem.
+Problem: Overpopulation
+We could theoretically feed all 7 billion plus people on the planet, but if all of those people are using resources such as fossil fuels and forests and creating plastics and other pollutants at the 2017 rate in "first world" countries, we have no hope of averting catastrophe.  Since people who enjoy the first world way of life are extremely reluctant to give up their conveniences and pleasures, one solution would be to greatly reduce the population on the planet.  The question is how to do that in a way that respects the rights of all peoples.
+From the Huffington Post:
+Ecologists explain that the collapse in global biodiversity is linked to overpopulation. China, Mexico and Brazil have been singled out as extreme cases of species loss. Brazil’s population grew four fold during the past sixty years; little wonder the Amazon is feeling the pressure. Mexico and China’s growth is comparable.
+Israel offers a microcosm of the global situation: A meeting point of three continents, at the middle of the twentieth century, this tiny country was still home to an astonishing assemblage of mammals, birds and reptiles. That’s because in 1949 there were one million people living in Israel. Today there are eight million. The equation is simple: more people means less wildlife. Accordingly, about a third of the country’s 115 indigenous mammal species today are either endangered or critically endangered. The amphibian population is almost entirely extirpated.
+Solution:
+Education regarding the problems of human overpopulation.
+Free clinics for family planning information and birth control.
+For developing countries: improved access to good nutrition, housing and health care.
+(This in itself is a big problem to be discussed in the context of developing a world wide democracy.)

Future Historians

User Tools

Site Tools

Differences

Page Tools