Blog #9

World Economic Forum posted an article in August of 2017 called “The Earth’s Population is Going to Reach 9.8 Billion by 2050”. They discuss that in the past 33 years there was a 31 percent increase in our world’s population, thus the science and history are pointing to a major increase by 2050. As of the year the article was written, 2017, the current international population was 7.5 billion people. This article does a great job of showing individual countries from where they were many years ago, where they were at the time of the article being written, and where they are expected to be by 2050. They use India and China, which are the two most populated countries in the world, as 2 examples of how this population increase will affect them, and predicts the population for them both to greatly increase by 2050. In fact, the entire continent of Asia is predicted to increase from it 750 million people population to an outstanding 5.2 billion. This is a much greater change than what is expected in the Americas, of a .2 billion person increase to eventually have 1.2billion people. However, in all of the population increase around the world this is not the same everywhere. Europe is projected to have a decrease in population from 745 million people to only 736 million people. 

This goes to show that population control is completely within our reach as a world because if we don’t get it under control soon then either our population will have no resources left and everybody will struggle or there will be heavy consequences for those who over populate.

The second half of this article discusses how all 7+ billion of us share the same earth and all of its very limited resources. Because of these resources being so scarce and having so many people depending on them now, we will use them all up and there will be no more for us to restock these resources. When oil, coal, or livestock runs out then there will be a very big and brutal awakening to this world. Not only will everybody who lives on this planets lives be changed resource wise, but it will be highly frowned upon to reproduce. As a woman who has a dream of someday becoming a mother I am deeply saddened that my children may not be able to have those same dreams. (word count 406)

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/08/the-earths-population-is-going-to-reach-9-8-billion-by-2050