nd, mines, industrial forests, industry-reserved areas, harbors, roads, warehouses, malls and other infrastructure ) Neither are there much room left to build new places for dwelling (shanty towns, slum, high-rise, urban sprawl, towns, cities, resorts etc.
The logic of economics and global market problem
Finding solutions that can make more people in the world thrive is also challenged by the way we structure and organize our global money-based culture. The whole foundation of the global world population rest more and more on the economic transaction and value structure of what is called the global market.
Business logic is becoming the defining logic of everything. But how the logic of money can keep handle world needs are something a lot of experts worry about today. Fewer and fewer people and companies control more and more of the values, reserves and wealth on the planet, and it has been estimated that less than ten male humans control more than half of the planet’s economic foundation today. (Link – the Guardian)
How the curve of population growth might collapse or change
To many it seems impossible that the ever rising curve of human population growth can continue its direction for much longer, but how it might change or collapse is yet to be seen. Here are some of the largest threats to the world population:
Global epidemics and stress
Life today in the huge cities and the busy production areas are more stressful than ever, more and more people take medicine to deal with the challenges of modern life and more and more of both us and the animals we live from are stuffed with antibiotics and other kinds of drugs to keep us all going. But this gigantic use of medicine has made more and more bacteria, viruses immune to our weapons against them. At the same time we are more connected than ever, moving ourselves, food and other products, and any possible future infections and unknown antibiotic-resistant diseases around at an incredible speed, So there is a real danger today of an globally reaching epidemic that moves too fast for us to stop it.
End of food
The amount of days the world population can live on the food we have stored in case of emergency keep getting lover. So if the planet hits a tough year with lover food production than normal it can trick a whole row of events, destabilizing whole countries, setting the whole world on fire.
Climate change can radically change how much land is available for us, where we can grow food and where we can run for shelter. Through history just small variants in the global temperature and weather has most likely played a huge role in making whole cultures and empires collapse, as the balance tipped away from being sustainable under a new climate.
More and more countries on Earth have the firepower to drastically change the curve of the world population in less than an hour today. Not only the classic super powers, but also new upcoming nations and dictators more and more often get their hands on new and ever more destructive nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
Less children – more power to women
The solution to population growth that a lot of people pray for is that we somehow will be able to gradually slow down the global population growth by having fewer children. Unfortunately only a few countries are heading this way fast enough for it to make a huge difference as things look today. But there is one factor that has the power to change all this and that is if women at a global scale, gets much more to say, and men better at listening.
The world population boat
Already with the world population alive on the planet today we have most likely passed the carrying capacity of the planet. (link: http://worldpopulationhistory.org/carrying-capacity/ ) But there are still sugar water in our straws and those in charge of the steering wheel still make great profit from the way things are today.
The global population on the planet has often been compared to sailors in a small fragile ship, far out at sea. our little global ship keeps getting more and more crowded, but it is still