Title:	Countering 21st Century Social-Environmental Threats to Growing Global Populations
Authors:	Frederic R. Siegel
Keywords:	Global Populations
Issue Date:	2015
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	World population will reach 7.2 billion people during 2014 with 1.3 billion in industrialized nations and 5.9 billion in the developing world, mainly in Asia and Africa. This number is estimated to grow to 8.6 billion by 2035, to 9.7 billion by 2050, and will likely stabilize at more than 10.3 billion earthlings at the end of the century. This assumes that there will not be population crashes because of lack of water and food for the growing populations in developing and less developed countries or because of killer epidemics or pandemics. It assumes as well that there will not be major wars in which weapons of mass destruction will be used and that a massive asteroid will not smash into our planet Earth. The time frame for global population growth is well within the lifetimes of grandchildren of our elder generation and of children and grandchildren of today’s mid-life generation. Whether individual nations and the international community can provide the necessities of life to sustain the additional billions of souls is questionable given our existing inability to do so with our 2013 global population. About one billion persons today (*1 in 7) suffer chronic malnutrition from lack of enough food and good quality food with the young and elderly making up the majority of afflicted persons. At the same time, *1.5 billion citizens (*3 in 14) lacked safe water for drinking, cooking, personal hygiene, and crop irrigation, and *2 billion people were without safe sanitation. If the community of nations cannot service the needs such as those just noted, how can it hope to sustain the needs of the populations in 2035, 2050, and the more than 10 billion in 2100 if the world reaches the projected numbers.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/53290
ISBN:	978-3-319-09686-5
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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