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Nine population strategies to stop short of 9 billion
Population experts have been saying for many years that we can anticipate nine billion humans on Earth by the year 2050. This morning (July 10, 2012), the Worldwatch Institute in Washington D.C. released the following nine strategies for stopping short of that number. These ideas agree with what nearly every other population expert has told EarthSky over the past decade: that is, women are the key to reducing the rate of population growth. For example, says Worldwatch Institute and other experts, in every culture surveyed to date, women who have completed at least some secondary school have fewer children on average, and have children later in life, than do women who have less education. Women who can own, inherit, and manage property, divorce, obtain credit, and participate in civic and political affairs on equal terms with men are more likely to postpone childbearing and to have fewer children compared to women who are deprived of these rights. And so on. You get the idea. Here are the nine population strategies, from Worldwatch.
- Provide universal access to safe and effective contraceptive options for both sexes.
- Guarantee education through secondary school for all, especially girls.
- Eradicate gender bias from law, economic opportunity, health, and culture.
- Offer age-appropriate sexuality education for all students.
- End all policies that reward parents financially based on the number of children they have.
- Integrate lessons on population, environment, and development into school curricula at multiple levels.
- Put prices on environmental costs and impacts.
- Adjust to an aging population instead of boosting childbearing through government incentives and programs.
- Convince leaders to commit to stabilizing population growth through the exercise of human rights and human development.
Bottom line: On July 10, 2012, the Worldwatch Institute of Washington D.C. released nine strategies for stopping short of 9 billion in population growth. Educating and empowering women is key to these strategies. Other strategies include educating children about population growth, and providing incentives to adjust to an aging population.
Visit the website of the Worldwatch Institute
Paul Ehrlich and the vital role of women in this century
8 Comments on "Nine population strategies to stop short of 9 billion"
DC on Tue, 10th Jul 2012 10:41 pm
Mmmm, women are the key to reducing the rate of population growth eh? Well, I read a recent study that concluded that women are responsible for close to 100% of all baby output, so it probably is a good to start there…
BillT on Wed, 11th Jul 2012 2:06 am
Well, the ideas might have worked, if they had begun 50 or so years ago and were world wide, but you do not change cultures in a few years or even a 100 years.
WorldWatch is another propaganda piece for the government/elite.
They missed the likely ones that will prevent 10 billion people from ever existing at one time on this earth: famine, disease and war.
Kenz300 on Wed, 11th Jul 2012 11:08 am
Quote — ” women who have completed at least some secondary school have fewer children on average, and have children later in life, than do women who have less education. Women who can own, inherit, and manage property, divorce, obtain credit, and participate in civic and political affairs on equal terms with men are more likely to postpone childbearing and to have fewer children compared to women who are deprived of these rights”
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Education and access to family planning services needs to be available to all that want it. If you can not provide for yourself you can not provide for a child.
Bernz223 on Wed, 11th Jul 2012 2:40 pm
Eugenics policies impliment world wide, life unworthy of life.
Wm. B. Kinsey on Wed, 11th Jul 2012 6:15 pm
Why are you so anti-Islam?
Jerry McManus on Wed, 11th Jul 2012 6:20 pm
They forgot the suicide booths on every corner. That way we can use computers to model nuclear strikes and all persons in the simulated blast zone can immediately report for a clean and efficient death.
At least until some swashbuckling starship captain from another planet shows up and ruins it.
Better yet, implant crystals in the palm of the hand at birth which are programmed to start flashing red when you get to 30.
The you get the treat of the lifetime, a spectacular death where your head explodes as you fly over an arena of wildly cheering crowds.
Just don’t try to run…
Kenz300 on Thu, 12th Jul 2012 2:49 am
In places in the world we have a food crisis, a water crisis, an energy crisis, a climate change crisis, a financial crisis, a jobs crisis and an over populations crisis. Every problem is made harder to solve with the world ever growing population. Endless population growth is not sustainable and only leads to more poverty, suffering and despair.
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