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World Population Day Notes Problems of Population Growth
July 11 is World Population Day, an annual observance to educate the public about the problems of overpopulation and continuing population growth. It grew out of the public interest in Five Billion Day in 1987 when the global population reached five billion people. A quarter century later, world population now exceeds 7 billion and is growing by 80 million per year.
“This dire situation underscores the need to provide safe and effective family planning to the hundreds of millions of men and women who lack it. Families must have the ability to determine the number and spacing of their children,” said Marilyn DeYoung, Chairman of the Board of Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS).
A major report from Britain’s Royal Society last year noted that the population must be stabilized rapidly to avoid “a downward spiral of economic and environmental ills.” While world population has soared 40 percent since the first World Population Day, the United States has grown almost as rapidly, increasing 30 percent, from 242 million in 1987 to almost 314 million today.
“Continuing growth of the human population is the most serious environmental problem for our planet and for our nation. The consequences of that growth are all around us—loss of open space, air and water pollution, and never-ending sprawl. Habitat loss due to population growth is by far the greatest threat to wildlife. We must tackle this paramount issue,” stated DeYoung, who served on the President’s Commission on Population Growth and the American Future in 1970.
Since 1986, CAPS has worked to protect the environment and improve the quality of life by promoting replacement-level fertility and replacement-level immigration in order to achieve a stable population.
5 Comments on "World Population Day Notes Problems of Population Growth"
BillT on Tue, 10th Jul 2012 12:57 am
Stable populations are not possible in most species. They are regulated by outside forces, usually by the amount of resources available. The human species is soon to find out that they are not immune to the system.
Kenz300 on Tue, 10th Jul 2012 1:32 pm
Quote — ” world population now exceeds 7 billion and is growing by 80 million per year.
“This dire situation underscores the need to provide safe and effective family planning to the hundreds of millions of men and women who lack it. Families must have the ability to determine the number and spacing of their children,”
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In parts of the world we have a food crisis, a water crisis, a fish stocks crisis, a climate change crisis, an energy crisis, a financial crisis, a jobs crisis and an over population crisis. Every problem is made harder to solve with the worlds ever growing population.
Access to family planning services needs to be available to all that want it.
Kenz300 on Tue, 10th Jul 2012 1:34 pm
Every country needs to develop a plan to balance its population with its resources, food, water, energy and jobs. Those that do not will be exporting their people and their problems.
Newfie on Tue, 10th Jul 2012 5:30 pm
I’m placing my bets on Thomas Malthus. The human species is too stupid (collectively) to see the Malthusian train coming down the tracks, even though it’s blowing it’s horn loudly.
rollin on Tue, 10th Jul 2012 11:19 pm
Population is not a problem for us yet, it is primarily a problem for the countless other species on the planet that are being destroyed and eliminated.