How is it possible that we destroy our only home
We are the most intellectual creature that ever works on planet earth, How is it possible that we destroy our only home.
There are 3 main problems that destroy our planet:
Extreme Poverty
Extreme poverty, absolute poverty, destitution, or penury, was originally defined by the United Nations in 1995 as "a condition characterised by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information.
The World Bank estimates that 1.44 billion people live in extreme poverty and subsist on an average of US $1.25 or less a day. But extreme poverty is more than a lack of money or material resources. It is a condition whereby an individual lacks the opportunity to make meaningful choices that will sustainably improve his or her life. By this definition, the Multidimensional Poverty Index estimates that 1.6 billion people are living in extreme poverty.
Human population growth
More than 7 billion living humans on Earth, yet 200 years ago we numbered less than 1 billion.1 Recent estimates suggest that 6.5 percent of all people ever born are alive right now.2 This is the most conspicuous fact about world population growth: for thousands of years, population grew only slowly, but in recent centuries it has jumped dramatically. Between 1900 and 2000 the increase in world population was three times greater than the entire previous history of humanity– an increase from 1.5 to 6.1 billion in just 100 years.
The world population in the very long-run fits the pattern of exponential growth (when a population grows exponentially the population increase is proportional to the size of the population). Yet an empirical observation of how growth rates have developed in the course of the last century reveals that this pattern no longer holds. The annual rate of population growth has recently been going down. A long historical period of accelerated growth has thus come to an end; the annual world population growth rate peaked in 1962, at around 2.1%, and has come down to almost half since.
The world history can be divided into three periods marked by distinct trends in population growth. The first period (pre-modernity) was a very long age of very slow population growth. The second period, beginning with the onset of modernity (with rising standards of living and improving health) and lasting until 1962, had an increasing rate of growth.
waste
This year, the world will generate 2.6 trillion pounds of garbage -- the weight of about 7,000 Empire State Buildings. What kind of trash is it? Where does it all go?
The answer is that just under half of it comes from "organic" waste -- food, mostly -- and most of it goes into landfills, according to a new report this week from the World Bank. Here's that story in pie charts, provided by the report.
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Fantastic view of the issues in our world. I couldn't agree more, the real environmental danger in the world is garbage and in particular plastic, not
this Global Warming nonsense.
If you look at the two charts below there is a coloration between population growth and this terrible debt bubble we are in and it is all about to burst.
We need to stop looking at government's to fix these problems. The people of the world need to help each other and with new innovations like the block chain maybe we can fight this debt bubble that is fueling all this terrible inequality. If we don't find solutions all these debt bubbles are going to pop an the population chart could head in the other direction very quick.
Thanks to Jeff Berwick from the Dollar Vigilante for the chart and all his wisdom.
https://dollarvigilante.com/
We need to make less rubbish and find better ways to deal with it. Maybe something like in "Back To The Future" where it was used/converted to energy :)
yes all ecponomic development factors are hiting now a days.
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I would like to see more of this.
thank you so much @jonas
Great article, showing the real issues we should all try to fix. The problem is that our government is trying to maintain this distance instead of reducing it. (for example: wars fought for resources). Only great innovations from our younger generations can make a difference in saving the planet!
thank you so much @razvan-stancui
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sad but true!!
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awesome article! i love it
Well researched and written!
However, the main root cause for the suffering is less population growth, waste and poverty, in my view. These are merely the symptoms of something sinister: Greed. Greed for power and greed for money. Yes, the rest of us, the bottom 99.9 percent of humanity must be compassionate. However, this alone will not solve the crisis.
There are plenty of resources available for all children to have their daily meals. There are plenty of resources available to afford medical care to all of human kind. However, 99% of the wealth on earth is owned and controlled by 1%. These 1% also control knowledge. Clean, cheap, literally free power, for example. From ancient times to Tesla, technology was used that harvested energy in vast amounts. Control of energy allows for population control.
Let's then look at those interests who call for Africa not to be industrialized, for example.
Let's look for those powers that ask for austerity while self living in villas, castles and palaces.
Let's look for those who dumb down the public by lowering education standards.
People are suffering. We need to arm ourselves with information, gain knowledge, pass it on to others. Only then may we be may we clean the world of the parasitical elite who do not wish the "useless eaters" to succeed.
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