World Population Day: A Connection Between Global Warming And Overpopulation?

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The world population is expected to soon surpass seven billion. That is more than double the number of people living on Earth just 50 years ago. Monday is “World Population Day,” a yearly event created by the United Nations to highlight the significance of population trends. But just what is that significance?

Every day, one billion people go hungry. One billion people don’t have access to clean water. According to CBC News, part of the message of World Population Day is that despite declines in fertility rates around the world, 215 million women in developing countries don’t have access to effective family planning methods. A goal of the U.N.’s 7 Billion Actions campaign is to “break the cycle of poverty and inequality to help slow population growth.”

Although an unpopular subject, the world’s growing population has become a topic of concern for some who fear that as the world’s population grows, the state of our environment will decline.

Thomas L. Friedman, author of “The World Is Flat,” writes in his book “Hot, Flat, And Crowded

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  1. Climate change, ozone depletion, overfishing and conversion of mangrove swamps to shrimp farming are one of the few areas in which rich nations burden poor countries. Interestingly, middle-income nations may have an impact on poor nations that is equivalent to the impact of rich nations which even make the nations poorer. While poor nations impact other income tiers, their effect on rich nations is less than a third of the impact that the rich have on the poor.
    Fact is the U.N is just a puppet organisation and the third world’s health remains hostage of the first world’s Wealth. Maybe it’s high time we consider cannibalism as a solution.

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