RE: Acknowledging Europe's Population Problem - Why is Global Education key
Yes, developed economies treating people right is one of the only ways to fix the larger issues. Developed economies do not want to take responsibility for helping to lift up developing economies because this lets them maintain their advantages.
Population growth is not necessarily a good thing. It's too bad that immigrants will continue to be used by businesses and politicians as a political wedge to break up the political and economic power of working classes as well as the social safety nets in developed economies.
Also, please note that this huge global population boom has happened in part on the back of farming techniques which are not sustainable and require large amounts of oil-derived products. So those small farmers you see who have adapted to their local lands over thousands of years will still prove useful if the global supply chain of oil is disrupted or dries up for any extended period of time.
The population growth is due to the decline in overall deaths combined with the fact that it's the first generation that had this decline. The next generation will have fewer children as the environment will allow the existing ones to survive. The next generation will experience an overall aging of the human population and as this generation will die out, the population will remain stable at around 12 billion. And this is backed up by a 80% prediction accuracy, I think this is stipulated in one of the above videos, if not, I can come with the source for that.
And about the farming, you are right. I for one, will retire from IT and into the BIO (Green) Farming sector in about 10-15 years. I will do this as I feel I can have a good impact there, and good funding is available if you have a "proof of brain" :D
Think tanks such as @steemSTEM will eventually come up with better and scientific solutions to this problem. It would be a shame not to.
A, I guess I will just call it a good thing, a good thing about the population growth is that the bulk of it will occur in regions where each new person does not add much of a load on the environment. It's much different to have a new person be born in an area where the average resource consumption per capita is low, than to have a bunch of new heavy consumers in places like the US or EU. Can you imagine what would happen if those 12 billion all loved burning fossil fuels and eating beef as much as Americans? Lol.
A return to sensible farming would be a nice area of personal growth with real impact on the world, that sounds like a cool career choice.
Yes, I am really happy that some of the cultures are more self-sufficient and sustainable!
Same here!
Also, you might like this article.
https://medium.com/@cnative100/whats-wrong-with-blue-apron-60bd26f31676
Yes, you are right.
I loved it!