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25th November 2015 05:13
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World Population to Stop Growing
Warren Sanderson, professor of economics and history at State University of New York:
"People thought for many years that we would breed ourselves out of existence. They thought we'd produce so many children, there would be no standing room left on the planet. But now it seems our population will peak. And that's an optimistic message.
The evidence shows women are already not having enough children to replace themselves. We may as well wake up and smell the coffee and begin focusing on how to live sustainably with the number of people we will have in the next century."
(Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=98371&page=1)
Gerhard Heilig, chief of population estimates and projections section at the UN:
"Empirical data from 230 countries since 1950 shows that the great majority have fertility declines. Globally, the fertility rate is falling to the "replacement level" — 2.1 children per woman, the rate at which children replace their parents.
If the global fertility rate does indeed reach replacement level by the end of the century, then the human population will stabilize between 9 billion and 10 billion. As far as Earth's capacity is concerned, we'll have gone about as far as we can go, but no farther."
(Source: http://www.livescience.com/16493-peo...h-support.html)
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25th November 2015 13:58
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