Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Sir David Attenborough warns against large families and predicts things will only get worse. So STOP IT; Third World Countries

Sir David Attenborough has said that he is not optimistic about the future and that people should be persuaded against having large families.
The broadcaster and naturalist, who earlier this year described humans as "a plague on Earth", also said he believed humans have stopped evolving physically and genetically because of birth control and abortion, but that cultural evolution is proceeding "with extraordinary swiftness".
"We stopped natural selection as soon as we started being able to rear 90-95% of our babies that are born. We are the only species to have put a halt to natural selection, of its own free will, as it were," he tells this week's Radio Times.
"Stopping natural selection is not as important, or depressing, as it might sound – because our evolution is now cultural … We can inherit a knowledge of computers or television, electronics, aeroplanes and so on."
Attenborough said he was not optimistic about the future and "things are going to get worse".
"I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful – and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of that I'm sure. But whether our lives will be as rich as they are now is another question.
"We may reduce in numbers; that would actually be a help, though the chances of it happening within the next century is very small. I should think it's impossible, in fact."
The broadcaster, who is a patron of the charity Population Matters,   More at source


The ten countries with the largest population in the world are
China, India, United States, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan,
Bangladesh, Nigeria, Russia and Japan.

1.033 billion (2011)
Africa, Population

Makes you say WHAT and Why Isn't AFRICA LISTED?
TOP TEN COUNTRIES WITH THE HIGHEST POPULATION
#Country2000
Population
2010
Population
2012
Population
2050
Expected Pop.
1
China
1,268,853,362
1,330,141,295
1,343,239,923
1,303,723,332
2
India
1,004,124,224
1,173,108,018
1,205,073,612
1,656,553,632
3
United States
282,338,631
310,232,863
313,847,465
439,010,253
4
Indonesia
213,829,469
242,968,342
248,645,008
313,020,847
5
Brazil
176,319,621
201,103,330
193,946,886
260,692,493
6
Pakistan
146,404,914
184,404,791
190,291,129
276,428,758
7
Nigeria
123,178,818
152,217,341
170,123,740
264,262,405
8
Bangladesh
130,406,594
156,118,464
161,083,804
233,587,279
9
Russia
146,709,971
139,390,205
142,517,670
109,187,353
10
Japan
126,729,223
126,804,433
127,368,088
93,673,826
TOP TEN Countries
3,618,894,827
4,016,489,082
4,096,137,325
4,950,140,178
Rest of the World
2,466,012,769
2,829,120,878
2,921,709,597
4,306,202,522
TOTAL World Population
6,084,907,596
6,845,609,960
7,017,846,922
9,256,342,700
NOTES: (1) The Top 10 Most Populated Countries of the World Table was updated for June 30, 2012. (2) Detailed data for individual countries may be found clicking on each country name. (3) Demographic (population) estimates for years 2000, 2010, 2012 and 2050 are based mainly on mid-year data from the US Census Bureau website. (4) The China population data is for the mainland only. (5) Data from the Internet World Stats website may be cited, giving the due credit and establishing an active link back to Internet World Stats. (6) For definitions, navigation help and methodology, see the Site Surfing Guide. Copyright © 2001 - 2013, Miniwatts Marketing Group. All rights reserved worldwide.

Crowded planet: Global population hits 7 billion + Africa




  1. Africa’s frightening population growth

    The news on the population front sounds bad: birth rates are not dropping as fast as expected, and we are likely to end up with an even bigger world population by the end of the century.



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