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UNITED
NATIONS WORLD POPULATION DAY NEWSLETTER #4, JULY 11, 2021
Compiled by
Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology
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Newsletter #11
Art Hobson, “Finding
Our Way….)
Negative Population
Growth
Population Connection (June 2020)
Dick’s
Analysis of Gholipour on 11 Million People
Doug Thompson on Costs
of Population Growth: Water
UN World Contraception
Day
Vince Beiser, Stopping
China’s Gobi Desert and Population
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OMNI OVER-POPULATION,
GROWTH, CONSUMPTION, WARMING, CLIMATE CHANGE
NEWSLETTER #11, June 10 , 2018.
http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2018/06/omni-overpopulation-newsletter-11.html
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture
of Peace, Justice, and Ecology
(#1 July 8, 2010; #2 April 23, 2012; #3 April 4, 2014; #4 June
28, 2014; #5, June 5, 2015; #6, July 16, 2015; #7, Nov. 5, 2015; #8 Jan. 8,
2016, #9 March 17, 2016; #10 July 8, 2016).
At stake: “Population growth can cancel out everything
we do to limit the build-up of GHGs (Attenborough 2009), and population
continues to increase at a rapid rate.”
Scott McNall, Rapid Climate Change
(2011, 58).
Art
Hobson, “Finding our way through the bottleneck: Trend is from religion
toward psychology.” ahobson@uark.edu
NWADG, 15 June 2021.
Now more than ever, and for better or
worse, the world is in rapid transition.
As the great scientist and naturalist Edward O. Wilson noted in his book
The Future of Life, humanity is
currently in a bottleneck, a time of resource overuse that will remain
difficult for decades, at least until world
population stops increasing and recedes significantly below its present
numbers.
A few examples of such problems: Changing climate due to excess carbon
emissions; water shortages due to overuse and altered climate; plagues due to
human encroachment into the natural environment; a global mass extinction due
to human expansion; national, cultural, and religious differences leading to
displacement and violent conflict; generational and other differences due to
fast-changing technologies and their misuse; and differences due to greater
awareness of unfair exploitation and mistreatment of women, minorities,
religions, and other groups. Underlying
everything are stresses due, ironically, to a fundamentally positive
development: rapid global
communication.
A
significant related trend is the steady drift of cultural beliefs away from
religious orientations and toward psychological orientations. It's a predictable trend because, as young
people become better educated, they tend to become dissatisfied with their
parents' religious beliefs, yet the bottleneck causes psychological pressures of
just the sort that, in earlier days, caused people to turn to religion for
guidance and solace. In particular, many
religions require their followers to accept miracles and other beliefs that are
implausible, to say the least, in light of contemporary knowledge. Thus some religious institutions are wisely
evolving to put less emphasis on traditional theology and more emphasis on
counseling and scientifically enlightened psychology. MORE https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2021/jul/06/opinion-art-hobson-through-the-bottleneck/
These cultural trends, both the
falling away from religion and the falling toward psychology, strike me as
signals of a better future. I hasten to
add that some social aspects of religion, especially family counseling,
discussion groups, and social gatherings,
will always be valuable.
Humankind
needs to get smart fast. We need to
reduce our population, cut carbon emissions to zero, resolve global water
shortages, avoid new plagues, protect wildlife, reconcile our differences,
adjust to new technologies, and resolve our prejudices. Education is what's needed, but traditional education,
while certainly necessary, is no longer sufficient. There's enough daily stupidity on, say,
twitter or the internet to last anybody a lifetime, but the social media are
also playing a crucial role in quickly educating many of us in all sorts of global
developments including the trend away from religion and toward psychology. All media--newspapers, films, television, and
many others--have a powerful role to play as the planet works its way through
the bottleneck.
NOTES:
• Edward O.
Wilson, https://www.pbs.org/thinktank/transcript1021.html.
• Pew poll:
https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/generational-cohort/.
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Pandemic
Viruses and Overpopulation.
POPULATION CONNECTION (June 2020) contains 3 excellent
articles on the origins of diseases like Covid-19. The histories of the many viruses are
particularly enlightening to our unfolding Covid-19 experience. 5-31
https://www.populationconnection.org/magazine/june-2020/
John
Vidal. “Destruction of Habitat + Loss of
Biodiversity Are Creating the Perfect Conditions for Diseases Like Covid-19 to
Emerge.”
Sonia
Shah. “Think Exotic Animals Are to Blame
for the Coronavirus? Think Again.”
Bahar Gholipour. “What 11
Billion People Mean for Disease Outbreaks.”
Some notes on Gholipour.
The title makes me hope someone equally skilled will write reports on
“What 11 Billion People Mean for Climate Change” and “What 11 Billion People
Mean for World Peace.”
The essay puts Covid-19 in its historical
place. It opens dramatically with the
2009-2010 swine flu epidemic caused by a new strain of H1N1, the influenza
virus of the devastating 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, which killed over 30
million people. “…the looming shadow of
a deadly pandemic still persists.”
That anxiety existed for all the viruses
that surfaced in recent years—from the 2002 SARS coronavirus to the MERS
(Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) . Will this be the one to cause the next
pandemic?
And the unprecedented population growth
intensifies the fear. In the second half
of the twentieth century the human population grew from 2.5 billion to 6
billion. It will reach 9.6 billion by
mid-century, and 11 billion by 2100. A
study published in Nature in 2008 examined the link between the risk of pandemic
and human population density and found a “strong correlation.”
For example, the rate of emergent diseases
caused by pathogens new to humans has increased significantly. Some of these diseases have crossed from
animals to humans—including the West Nile virus, the SARS coronavirus, and the
HIV. Other pathogens have evolved in
response to drugs, such as drug-resistant tuberculosis.
Each year, it is likely that more and more
diseases will emerge, for all in the past “were linked to sudden human
population growth and related activities.
And “about two-thirds of new diseases were transmitted to humans from
animals.”
The rest of the article elaborates on
these discoveries, makes predictions about the future, and examines whether we
are prepared with a “robust public health system.”
I’ll select three developments to
illustrate what we’re up against and signs of progress: The HIV/AiDS pandemic, first detected in
1981, believed to have originated in chimpanzees, “has infected 60 million people and caused an estimated 30
million deaths.” It “continues to this
day.” We are developing novel
diagnostics to quickly detect infection, and we have made “immense progress” in
reducing the time to make a vaccine.
Dick 6-2-20
COSTS
OF POPULATION GROWTH
Doug
Thompson. “Board Told to Start Work on Pipeline
Now.” NADG (Feb. 21, 2020). “to
meet the city’s growing demand for water.” The total project will cost $88.8
million. What else will be demanded from
the overpopulation?
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VINCE
Beiser. “A Tree Grows in China.” Mother
Jones (Sept. Oct. 2017). China’s “Green Great Wall” effort to stop the
Gobi Desert from enlarging. “Climate
change is partly to blame, but population growth is the main culprit.”
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