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The resource challenge – Earth and its carrying capacity
In the way we live today we are fast reaching the end of our current lifestyle with cars, eating meat, buying more and more. But like zipping sugar-water out of a glass through a straw we do not experience the challenges gradually, but only when our own personal or national straw is not long enough any more.
Today we globally produce more goods and food in a day to feed the world, than the whole world did in a year, just a few centuries ago, and nobody want to slow down the production-lines, instead we are all competing on expanding, up-scaling, refining and accomplishing and producing more and more in less and less time.
The pollution and waste problem of a 7+ billion people world population
Every day the rising amount of people on the planet creates a new gigantic amount of waste. Things that can no longer be used by us and we dump instead, first into the nearest waste-bin, and then either into the oceans or into huge landfills, or burn and release into the atmosphere as destructive chemical gases.
Every second the world population now throw out an unbelievable unsorted mix of synthetic plastic, paint, left-over pesticides, chemicals, life-destroying quicksilver batteries and other poisonous metals and non-fixable electronic devices. On top of it we adds gene-modified substances, outdated foods of all kinds, and medicine drugs, clothing, cars, nuclear cooling water – And to that we continually add human waste, and industrial farming waste. Mixing it all together to a very destructive cocktail, we up til now has been confident that Earth will keep swallowing for us every day, without it having any influence on our population growth.
Finding place – the double food and habitat problem
Finding new and ever more space for an ever more and larger world population is getting harder and harder. There is simply not much space left on the planet that is not either being used to produce or transport industrial food and goods around ( farmland, 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