How 8 billion people in the world can live 'comfortably'
The world's population surpassed 8 billion on November 15 due to excessive pressure on natural resources. Many believe that if population growth becomes a population explosion, the harmful effects of climate change will increase rapidly, making this planet of 8 billion people uninhabitable even faster Sarah Hartog, a UN expert on demography, believes that due to the spread of education around the world, awareness among women has increased, people are realizing the need for family planning more than ever before. Sarah Hartog believes that increasing health awareness has a big role to play, otherwise the average life expectancy of people around the world will increase by 25 years in 2022 compared to 1950.
According to the United Nations, if the rate of population and life expectancy continues at this rate, the world's population will increase to 9.7 billion by 2050 and to 11 billion by 2100.
Where nature is struggling to meet the growing needs of 800 crore people, what can be the situation if the population is 1,100 crore or more?
Another United Nations report says that due to population growth, greenhouse gas emissions and natural resources are increasing around the world, and the overall situation of environmental pollution is also getting worse rapidly.
Rather, economic prosperity and the trend of living a luxurious life are mainly responsible, he told DW, "People's income is increasing and that is why the tendency to buy different types of goods is increasing.
Sub-Saharan Africa and one part of Asia are more responsible for the increase in carbon emissions around the world, but recent research says that the use of refrigerators, cars, televisions, ACs, etc. is very high in all the rich countries of the world, and therefore the 'liability' of those countries for environmental pollution is very high.
Global Footprint, an environmental non-governmental organization, said in a study that if all the people of the world lived like the people of the United States, the natural resources of the world would be exhausted in a short time. Like the citizens of Russia, everyone would need 3.4, like the Germans, everyone would need 3, like the Japanese and the Portuguese, everyone would need 2.9, and if everyone like the citizens of France, Spain and Switzerland, 8 billion people would need at least 2.8 natural resources.
In Nigeria, a country of more than 210 million Africans, only 70 percent of the world's natural resources would be used annually if everyone in the world lived like ordinary people.
Sarah Hartog, a global economics director at the World Resources Institute, told Sara Hartog, director of global economics at the World Resources Institute, "We still have (natural) resources. It is important to take initiative to take geopolitics in the right direction.
Sylvia Lorek, a professor at the University of Helsinki and chairperson of Germany's Sustainable Europe Research Institute, has found that to make the world an ideal home for 8 billion people, three things need to be focused on: eating, drinking, living and traveling. Excluding the use of airplanes and private cars and abandoning separate housing arrangements for one person or one family and leaning towards living as collectively as possible, the pressure on natural resources will be greatly reduced, the earth will also be more livable https://bangla.thedailystar.net/news/world/news-419536
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