Website review: Monbiot.com & Population Bombs
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laodan discovered 4 months ago- Population Bombs in Monbiot.com and published in the Guardian 29th January 2008, by George Monbiot
A steady growth rate of 3% means a doubling of economic activity every 23 years. By 2100, in other words, global consumption will increase by roughly 1600%. As the equations produced by Professor Roderick Smith of Imperial College have shown, this means that in the 21st Century we will have used 16 times as many economic resources as human beings have consumed since we came down from the trees. So economic growth this century could be 32 times as big an environmental issue as population growth. And, if governments, banks and businesses have their way, it never stops. Population Bombs It seems to me that we are confronted with four determinant factors: A. the logic of capital is considered the ultimate truth of modernity and capital holders will never stop to put it in application. B. the expansion of modernity has succeeded to impose the "truth of the logic of capital" to the entire world. C. as a consequence of the success of 1 and 2 the world population is growing. (the initial stages of industrialization are known to be accompanied by strong population growth while late modernity is accompanied by falling levels of population) D. a growing population is increasing the total demand for goods and services. Population growth can't thus be considered to be the bomb. It is what starts the movement of population growth that should be considered the bomb. (bomb means danger of disrupting the sustainability of those increased levels of human population). Some fools are talking about "voluntarily reducing present levels of population" in order to assure the sustainability of the population that would survive in the West. Yes those thinking about population reduction want it for their own sake... Stabilizing Population by Reducing Fertility 22 pages PDF Confronting The 21st Century's Hidden Crisis: Reducing Human Numbers by 80% Reducing population to improve life Reducing human population The expansion of modernity to the 4 corners of the world is accompanied by a huge increase in world population but we know that societies reaching late modernity assist at falling rates of natality. In conclusion the world population will stabilize with late-modernity setting in all over the world. In the meantime humanity will face a problem of un-sustainability for something as a century (21st century).
- Population Bombs in Monbiot.com and published in the Guardian 29th January 2008, by George Monbiot
