GIVING BIRTH TO THE END OF THE WORLD
Oct 30th, 2011 by haileyrae
Given that business must grow in order to survive; an ever expanding world population would seem to be the ideal. There’s only one problem; sustainability suggests humans will affect the demise of this planet before we find another planet to inhabit.
So unless you’ve reserved seats for a self sustaining stealth capsule secretly circumnavigating Earth’s outer thermosphere, you should worry.
Environmental blogger Mireya Navarro acknowledges that, “…the population issue has been conspicuously absent from the public discourse on global warming…” in her blog entitled, “The Elephant in the Room.” 1
The world population is expected to climb to 9.5 billion by 2050, up 2.5 billion from the 2011 figure. The majority of these 2.5 billion however will be born into poverty and rather than contribute to a healthy business climate will depend entirely on aid from western economies.
Long before the end of this century, famine will have reached catastrophic proportions.
Clearly, radical global birth control measures need to be implemented now if any of this is to be avoided.
Unfortunately all we hear from our governments is how best we might increase crop yields or improve water supply. Very little conversation is enlisted about how we might effectively implement draconian population control measure to offset the real problem.
Assuming that humanity can achieve some kind of utopic future population-consumption, there is no doubt many of the business giants will have made adjustments to survive in a no growth sustainable business economy.
But it seems to take events of catastrophic proportions to effect any real change. Perhaps environmental collapse might be the stimulus.
In the meantime, let’s face facts and talk about how we are giving birth to the end of the world.
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1Navarro, Mireya.“The Elephant in the Room.”Green: A Blog About Energy & the Environment. The New York Times. Nov. 1, 2011. 11:20 am.