Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Human Population Acting Like Rabbits?

Human Population Growth is estimated to reach about 9 billion by the year 2050. Although human population is expected to grow this high there has been significant progress in countries such as America, Japan, and Europe in maintaining the 2 babies per couple replacement rate. In some countries such as Japan population is expected to actually decline by the year 2025. However in most countries such as India and Africa population is projected to continue to increase sharply. This is largely due to a failure to recognize these problems. The sooner we recognize our population growth as a problem the sooner we can fix this problem. The answer for both of these countries lies in family planning programs and equality of both women and men. Until these standards can be achieved female babies will continue to killed causing more births for the want of a male baby to support the old parents.

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