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Missing Numbers

Missing Numbers. Numbers count! Population is the critical driver in most environmental and many economic & social problems But it is not the only driving force and interacts with other ones. Progress! Success!. A world under too much pressure. Air pollution. Climate change.

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Missing Numbers

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  1. Missing Numbers • Numbers count! • Population is the critical driver inmost environmental andmany economic & social problems • But it is not the only driving forceand interacts with other ones

  2. Progress! Success!

  3. A world under too much pressure Air pollution Climate change Biodevastation Acidification Overfishing Peak oil Water pollution Growing shortages of key minerals Growing water shortages Overflowing landfills Toxic & radioactive contamination Growing food shortages Austerity & declining ‘social wage’ Housing shortages Competition for land Unemployment Explosive growth of slum cities Inequality & discrimination Decreasing quality of life ‘Affluenza’ Civil wars & terrorism Urban disorders Congestion Crumbling education, health & other services

  4. Technology:extraction, cultivation, refining, manufacture, transportation, services, buildings, disposal etc.

  5. Per capita consumption or ‘affluence’

  6. P. x A. x T. > Population

  7. Generalisations like ‘developing’ and ‘industrialised’ regions can be misleading: great variety within such vague entities • Growth rates have turned out to be higher than previously predicted

  8. Technology is an important variable but the potential of ‘alternatives’ is frequently exaggerated Often the ‘technofix’ creates more problems than it solves.

  9. ‘P’ factor is uniquely decisive yet the ‘P’ word is seldom spoken

  10. Greater Tokyo, Japan,crams in over 34 million inhabitants

  11. World population size 2 billion 1927 3 billion 1960 4 billion 1974 5 billion 1987 6 billion 1999 7 billion 2011 8 billion 2025 9 billion 2043 10 billion 2085 UK population size 50 million 1950 60 million 2005 70 million 2033 75 million 2089

  12. Current world population growth rate 78 million per year 1.5 million per week 214,000 per day 8,900 per hour 148 per minute 2.5 per second See http://www.prb.org/ http://www.census.gov/ No wonder we are called the human race!

  13. Africa’s population projected to grow from 1 billion people today to 2.2 billion by 2050. 40% of the total population is under age15

  14. Misconceptions & misconceivers

  15. Vice President Jejomar C. Binay of the Philippines: "As we resolutely blaze our path to progress, we draw strength from each life that springs forth and welcome the birth of new minds and hearts… While even the most austere homes in our Philippines celebrate the arrival of each child with great joy” With an estimated population of about 94 million people, the Philippines is the world's 12th most populous country. An additional 11 million Filipinos live overseas. Forest cover declined from 70% of the country's total land area in 1900 to about 18.3% in 1999. Many species are endangered and scientists say that Southeast Asia, which the Philippines is part of, faces a catastrophic extinction rate of 20% by the end of the century. The population's median age is 22.7 years with 60.9% aged from 15 to 64 years old. The overall growth rate is about 2%

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