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Demographic and Environmental Issues
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Unfortunately, we don't have much time in which to make the necessary changes. Global system experts, basing their findings on current trends, project that within fifty years--probably sooner--modern civilizations will begin to collapse under the combined weights of population growth, pollution, loss of natural resources, and diminishing food supplies. As we approach the limits of the Earth's carrying capacity, other environmental or political catastrophes may occur even sooner.
CED Brochure, 1995
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The Story of Modern Democracy (cont.)
Related Websites
- PBS: Ehrlich and the Population Bomb
- Population Timeline
- Population Bomb--Teacher Tools
- U.S. Census Bureau's International Data Base
- Zero Population Growth
- Women's Net
- Emergency Contraception
- Office of Population Research
- Programa Centroamericano de Población, Costa Rica
- Fudan Univ. Institute of Population Research, China
- Viet Nam's Environmental Protection Law
- Canada's Ecology Action Centre
- Friends of the Earth
- Corporate Watch
- Earth Summit 5 Years Later
- U.N. Earth Summit + 5
- U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- U.K. Meteorology Office
- U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Forests
- Creating Democracy In Time--Chap. 8
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From the CED video entitled "Democracy In Time:"
Every day 35,000 people die of starvation, 26,000 of them children. Every day there are over 220,000 more mouths to feed. Estimates of future population growth, food supplies, and the Earthıs carrying capacity vary widely. Some scientists argue that weıve already exceeded the sustainable carrying capacity at present standards of material life. It is precisely because we donıt know the carrying capacity that we should slow our population growth and consumption, extend our research efforts, and proceed cautiously.
Proposed Solutions: A more scientific and less profit-oriented approach to caring for our environment--and deciding our planetıs carrying capacity at different standards of living--is necessary and will undoubtedly come about as the influence of special interests wanes in our legislatures.
A variety of birth control methods, womenıs right to choose, available contraceptives, and education for both genders regarding sex and reproductive responsibilities can be effective ways to voluntarily achieve a better balance between population growth and the environment.
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