05-05-2023, 05:02 AM
davester wrote:
[quote=DeusxMac]
ZPG could ameliorate many of this planet’s problems, but there’s “zero” willingness to act on it.
Nope, it would not. The problems go far beyond population growth. Incidentally, world population growth, though it was a problem in the past, is no longer an issue, as proven by projection of current demographics. See here, for example: https://ourworldindata.org/future-population-growth
ameliorate - verb
to make better or more tolerable
“Growth enthusiasts often point out — correctly — that the global fertility rate and population growth rate are declining. But so is the number of years it takes us to add each billion new people, due to a tricky phenomenon called population momentum. As huge generations of young people reach and live out their reproductive years (considered 15 to 44 by most demographers), their children are added to an already-large base of people.”
“Africa’s population of 1 billion is projected to double by 2050, making improvements in health, education, employment and poverty alleviation for the people who live there an even more distant development dream.”
“People in countries with the highest infant and child mortality rates, lowest educational attainment rates and least ability to adapt to the climate changes that are occurring where they live at the most disastrous levels.”
https://populationconnection.org/why-population/