Malthus, thank God, you were wrong! Soothsayers of all peoples, disengaged. Pessimistic of all the planets, not right! RESOURCES ARE THERE FOOD IF THERE HEART TO SHARE. So welcome SEVEN BILLION little baby! If Mother Teresa were here I would have winked his eye and also would have given you a hug. Each time a child is born, God smiles back again! I agree with the article Steve W. Mosher president of the Population Research Institute. http://www.fluvium.org/textos/vidahumana/vid364.htm
By the end of 2011, a baby will leave the womb of his mother, his first breath and will announce its arrival in the world with a cry. So Baby born as Seven billion.
We all agree that that day will be an important milestone because our planet will become home to seven billion human beings. But many wonder whether this event will be a warning sign of impending doom or is it something we should celebrate.
The prophets of gloom, the population bomb and the "baby booms" probably prefer the Seven Billion Bebe never born.
He or she will come to a more prosperous what our ancestors did not even imagined.
figures give us reason
As population increases, so does our welfare. In 1800, when there was only one billion human beings, income per capita was only the equivalent of U.S. $ 100 today. In 1900, when the population was close to 2 billion, reaching $ 500.00. Now, with 7 billion people, per capita income has risen to over $ 5,000.00. In 2100, with a projected population between 7 and 8 billion (but already in decline due to birth trends current), will be U.S. $ 30,000.00 in current dollars.
The so-called "population explosion" in the last two centuries has been a revolution in the increase of health. In the 19 th century, four in 10 children died before reaching 5 years of age. Today the infant mortality of children under 5 years is less than 7%. Consequently, humans live longer. Two hundred years ago, the human life expectancy was less than 30 years. Today it is near 70.
As people live longer, naturally there are more of us at any given time. This is cause for celebration, not despair.
In almost every measure of well-being, from infant mortality and life expectancy, education level and caloric intake, life in Africa, Asia and Latin America has been improving drastically. According to World Bank Average incomes in the developing world has more than doubled since 1960.
enough grain is produced for each person on earth to consume 3,500 calories daily. No one need die of hunger amidst plenty.
The population has doubled since 1960, but the availability of food and the world's resources has never been higher. Economies continue to grow, productivity is increased and pollution is decreasing. Life expectancy lengthens, poverty has been reduced and political freedom is growing. Even the ever-troubled Middle East would be forever thought the field of dictators and Ayatollahs, is constantly moving towards development. The human race has never been in such good shape.
What are we doing with all that good?
Although all indicators curves indicate economic improvement, demographically speaking, the opposite happens. In fact, the depopulation, not overpopulation, is the biggest threat facing the world today. More than eighty countries, which together represent more than half the world population, have a fertility rate below replacement, as defined in 2.1 children per woman.
Currently the population in developed countries remains static or declining. United Nations predicts that by 2050 Russia's population will have reduced by 25 million people in Japan at 21 million, Italy at 16 million and that of Germany and Spain in 9 million each. Europe and Japan will lose half of its population by 2100.
countries with fertility rates below replacement eventually disappear. It's just a matter of time.
Even in developing countries the size the family has decreased from around 5 children per woman in 1900 to less than 3 today. And the downward trend remains firm.
According to the "low variant projection" of the UN, historically the most accurate, the world's population reach up to 8 billion in 2040 and then begin to decline.
fertility rates higher are increasingly rare. United Nations figures for 2008 show only a handful of countries with population growth rates above 3%.
By 2050 people aged 65 years or more will almost double that children 15 and younger. The economic consequences of aging will be the closure of schools, declining stock markets and economies moribund.
So why continue to promote the control home?
None of the figures we have mentioned is part of a confidential report. It is very difficult to believe that those who promote birth control in the world ignore these facts. Is much more likely to think about pursuing a different logic of those who think soundly on the welfare of all human beings alike. Just make a list of those funding birth control and other what are the stocks to which it is addressed, and the answer will pop into view. A review of its founding ideology (Margaret Sanger, John Rockefeller III, among others) and their political operatives (here the list is endless but let us cite the example of senior officials of UN since U Thant on until Michelle Bachelet) will remove any doubt: the birth control is a way to vary the final what the trends mark. The question is ... can they?
One of the main ways to justify the dissemination of birth control was the fear of population growth, the myth of overpopulation.
To do this it was necessary to misinform. So the UN Population Fund (UNFPA for its acronym in English) and other population control have always been reluctant to report the truth about the declining fertility rates worldwide, raising funds and scaring people with the specter of overpopulation. We have poor people in developing countries have too many babies. To say that only the rich should have kids. It is a new form of global racism.
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did a great job. Today think about having more children, not less (think about the logic of the numbers) we find completely alien. They worked efficiently our mind and our will to create us a sense of insecurity to population growth. And at the same time, we have a complete ignorance and indifference to the terrible consequences of depopulation.
From here we call to stop this. To learn and find out other reality, the figures and facts. We must stop finance population control programs, and instead, turn our attention to real problems such as malaria, typhoid and HIV / AIDS.
Unite also to celebrate the birth of Baby Seven Billion. He or she is a sign of our future, our hope and prosperity.
People are the greatest asset of humanity. Extraordinarily gifted people have contributed civilization enrich and lengthen life. But the fact is that everyone, rich or poor, is a unique creation with something valuable to offer the rest of us.
Seven Billion Baby, child, whatever the color of their skin, not a liability but an asset. It is not a curse but a blessing to us all.
