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future, the human population will be expanded a few times than normal. This
will lead to many environmental and sociological problems. Professor Guillebaud,
Director of the British Antarctic Survey said: "We urgently need to stabilize
and reduce human numbers. There is no way that a population of nine billion ‘the
UN's medium forecast for 2050’ can meet its energy needs without unacceptable
damage to the planet and a great deal of human misery."
- The human population stands at 6.5 billion nowadays and is expected to rise to more than 9 billion by 2050.
- By about 2030 India is expected to exceed China with nearly 1.5 billion people.
- Britain's population of 60 million is forecast to grow by 7 million over the next 25 years and by at least 10 million over the next 60 years, mainly through immigration. This is equivalent to the size of 57 towns of Luton, UK which equivalent 184,000 people in each town.
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| World energy consumption & predictions, 1970–2025 |
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overpopulationhttp://library.thinkquest.org/26026/Environmental_Problems/overpopulation.html
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