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Ban Ki Moon addresses World Population Day
United Nations (UN) has revealed that there are more than 60 million people who have been displaced from their homes.
Secretary General of UN Ban Ki Moon, in a press statement regarding the World Population Day, revealed that there have never been so many people forced from their homes across the country since the Second World War.
He revealed that nearly 60 million people have fled conflicts or disasters all over the world, out of whom women and adolescent girls being the most vulnerable.
Actions by violent extremists and terrorists have inflicted terrible scars on many innocent victims. Ban Ki Moon said that the responsibility for all those shameful actions must be taken solely by the perpetrators.
He pointed out that these women are not just victims, and that they also have the potential to make important contributions to the society’s future. He added that we must protect women’s rights and physical and mental well-being while striving to advance their rights.
Statistics show that the population of the world will exceed 7.34 billion at the end of the year. The population is growing at a rate of 1.13 percent with 15,000 being born ever hour. On the other hand, 6,000 pass away every hour.
Today also marks the 70th anniversary since the establishment of the UN.
9 Comments on "Ban Ki Moon addresses World Population Day"
Boat on Sat, 11th Jul 2015 4:01 pm
Davy……Boat, there should be no need for birth control because populations should be naturally stable over time like the rest of the earth’s ecosystem. Life was much more resilient and sustainable before the automobile. There was a time when we had abundant clean water and didn’t need plumbing and purification like today.
I see… this must be your idea of naturally stable ecosystems. These refugees won’t have electricity, cars, washers, dryers, tv, computer and smart phones. What an idyllic lifestyle.
Davy on Sat, 11th Jul 2015 4:28 pm
Boat, get a grip man, the horse is long gone out of the stable. You can have all the fun you want. Live it up and hoot and howler. But don’t try to convince me modern life is good when I see 7BIL people facing a bottleneck and a beautiful planet being destroyed. Since there isn’t a friggen thing we can do then let’er lose and love life. Boat “LIVE LARGE”. IN ADDITION if you want to be delusional and live a lie to making progress appear good and wholesome fine just don’t try to convince me.
Modern life is destructive and has no future. We are stuck with it and we will just have to ride the ship down. The time frame is uncertain but the end is pretty clear. If you have a heart then you will practice relative sacrifice. You will prep for some resiliency in a crisis for your family. You will stop the destructive behavior that will just mean less to go around. Basically it is about being a good earth citizen in a local and individual way. I am not talking in a national or ideological way. Going local that is the only place we can have a positive influence.
Apneaman on Sat, 11th Jul 2015 5:35 pm
We Must Preserve The Earth’s Dwindling Resources For My Five Children
http://www.theonion.com/blogpost/we-must-preserve-the-earths-dwindling-resources-fo-11239
Boat on Sat, 11th Jul 2015 6:08 pm
The comments by you Davy and you Apneaman are confusing to me. One the one hand you claim it’s all baked in the cake, hopeless and humans basically suck for destroying the planet and the quicker we die off the better.
Then I hear we should go ahead and try a little and we might mitigate some of the worst of overshoot and climate change.
Someone like myself comes on and likes to talk about the positive things humans are doing to be more efficient, stretching out the oil supply and living a little cleaner on the planet.
Ya’ll go ape shyyt about how that is impossible.
I think your wrong. We need 15-20 years to switch to nat gas and renewables, we have at least 20 years min to get it done.
Ape, Recycling is how we preserve the earths dwindling resources.
joe on Sat, 11th Jul 2015 6:21 pm
Ban ki moon is effectively telling us that we need to feed 78mln extra people every year. If even 10% of that number wants to aspire to middle class living according to globalist values then we will need allot more oil than we ever thought to provide it to them.
Davy on Sat, 11th Jul 2015 11:31 pm
Boat, this is what happens when you enter the stages of death. Acceptance and reality are harsh teachers. I am saying let’s be honest about our circumstances. It is clear in too many ways there is little hope for modern man. If it were not bad enough with what we done to Nature we have ourselves to worry about.
I am saying be positive within a reality of doom. Life is too short to wrestle with these epic global issues. I do it as part of being a priest of doom. I have my own inner peace. I am following a way of life of doom and prep. At home I don’t talk about these things unless asked and even then I give out the medicine differently depending on the person.
This is dangerous stuff in the wrong hands. Any medicine of this strength is powerful. Call me a nutter and a lunatic I accept that label. In these times it is those who step out of the asylum who can offer solutions.
My solutions are only for you locally. I may talk at times about global solutions but that is completely out of everyone’s hands except global suicide. There is an irreversibility to the life we have created. Individually we need to be in the here and now in our local more than ever before because of what we are facing.
Boat I am saying be optimistic in the here and now. Leave the future alone. There is likely little future left so leave it alone. This is the hardest thing about doom and prep and that is going local and going to the here and now. We have life right now and for many it is a good life but it will not last.
apneaman on Sun, 12th Jul 2015 12:14 am
Boat, I am serious about what we have done and how bad the potential is, but I also use a lot of very dark morbid cynical sarcastic humor to make points and stay sane. Not everyone gets or appreciates that, but it’s how I roll and some do find it humorous and effective. If you wish to survive look to yourself – this system we built is not capable of reform and will collapse. When it gets really bad, I’ll probably get strung up for sedition (truth telling) or some shit – don’t care just make it quick.
Davy on Sun, 12th Jul 2015 3:09 am
Ape Man, you goin soft on me? No, really, that was well said.
Boat on Sun, 12th Jul 2015 7:32 am
Climate change will be the biggest struggle for humans.I worry more for future generations than any short term collapse. Even if solar, wind, electric cars etc are a successful replacement for oil will mother nature wipe out our infrastructure as fast as we can build it out. So yea, I got a little doomer in me also.