The Population Reference Bureau is reporting that we may be in the midst of a new Baby Boom in the United States, "Provisional figures from the National Center for Health Statistics report more than 4.3 million births in the United States in 2007—which would set a record for most registered births in a calendar year. This marks the eighth consecutive year that births had exceeded the 4 million mark, which is the longest stretch since the peak years for the post-World War II baby boom in the mid-1950s."
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I am dismayed that there is not a single comment so far on this article, nor on the article providing the world population data sheets. The data presented in the data sheets is devastating.
We find the infant mortality rate in the poorest countries is 100 times that in some developed countries, not necessarily the richest.
We find a world population 22 times as great as during Roman Empire times. We find a USA with a population that equals total world population of only 2000 years ago. I live in a world with almost 4 times as many people as the world into which I was born – a world with far less resources for far more people. We find that many countries today have many more people than any of the great empires of the past controlled. We find we have far more under nourished and dirt poor than we ever had, going all the way back to the dawn of man. Some call this progress.
With U.S. natural resources getting scarcer,a surge in population growth can only make the problem worse.Our loose immigration policy is helping to diminish our resources.The 3rd world countries have been suffering from starvation for years,and seems to be getting worse.Will the U.S.A. be pressured to come to the rescue,streaching our resources even more?
You are correct–devastating information. Homo sapien population on Earth is already beyond carrying capacity. Obviously, we require a “dope slap” before we reduce breeding. God’s laws for Life on Earth cannot be mocked nor ignored.
I can’t help but wonder……….
How many of those 4.3 million births were to legal U.S.A. citizens?
You can still fit everybody in the world into ONE city in the USA. Everybody fits into Jasksonville, FLA and the rest of Earth is unpopulated. Is this over-crowding? Think again. If people are primarily consumers and only producers of waste, then a doom-and-gloom attitude of births is justified. But my company PAYS me to PRODUCE goods and services; moreover, I live in a country that still (for the time) allows me to contribute without (too much) intervention.
The economic pie keeps getting bigger; as does our ability to produce fresh water, cleaner fuel, and take care of others. We need more people. Especially to populate space! Think of all the new countries we’ll have then!
Michael P., Whether the entire human population is packed into a small space or scattered evenly across the Planet, it must still consume resources. You mistakenly equate empty space with your cornucopian idea of underpopulation.
To what do you refer when you mention “our ability to produce fresh water”? Certainly fresh water can be produced at a certain (high) price. But, if it is too expensive to produce for most people–and this goes for food, too–then many humans will go without.
Hypothetically, yes, humans can produce needed resources; but practically, no– millions of humans, even now, do not have sufficient amounts of these resources. For the future, again, hypothetically, there could be sufficient resources located somewhere in the world, but not where all humans will get them. For example, millions die today from HIV/AIDS while there are effective treatments that are available. Real peole die today from your “hypothetical” food, water, resources, and health care.
The economic pie might be growing, but, again, this does not mean the share of everyone increases.
The problem with the world adding approximately 74 million humans per year (net gain) is that many will not receive an adequate share of the expanding pie.
You say you produce goods and services, but are you producing PRIMARY goods, i.e. food, forest products, and minerals? If not, someone else is producing those primary products for you (and me). Have you calculated into your production the hidden economic costs of pollution that might eventually degrade the resource base we all live on? Theoretically the carrying capacity of the earth might be increased by human ingenuity. But have the lines of the graph–population and resources–already crossed?
Whether the entire human population is packed into a small space or scattered evenly across the Planet, it must still consume resources. You mistakenly equate empty space with your cornucopian idea of underpopulation.
To what do you refer when you mention “our ability to produce fresh water”? Certainly fresh water can be produced at a certain (high) price. But, if it is too expensive to produce for most people–and this goes for food, too–then many humans will go without.
Hypothetically, yes, humans can produce needed resources; but practically, no–millions of humans, even now, do not have sufficient amounts of these resources. For the future, again, hypothetically, there could be sufficient resources located somewhere in the world, but not where all humans will get them. For example, millions die today from HIV/AIDS while there are effective treatments that are available. Real peole die today from your “hypothetical” food, water, resources, and health care.
The economic pie might be growing, but, again, this does not mean the share of everyone increases.
The problem with the world adding approximately 74 million humans per year (net gain) is that many will not receive an adequate share of the expanding pie.
You say you produce goods and services, but are you producing PRIMARY goods, i.e. food, forest products, and minerals? If not, someone else is producing those primary products for you (and me). Have you calculated into your production the hidden economic costs of pollution that might eventually degrade the resource base we all live on? Theoretically the carrying capacity of the earth might be increased by human ingenuity. But have the lines of the graph–population and resources–already crossed?
Whether the entire human population is packed into a small space or scattered evenly across the Planet, it must still consume resources. You mistakenly equate empty space with your cornucopian idea of underpopulation.
To what do you refer when you mention “our ability to produce fresh water”? Certainly fresh water can be produced at a certain (high) price. But, if it is too expensive to produce for most people–and this goes for food, too–then many humans will go without.
Hypothetically, yes, humans can produce needed resources; but practically, no– millions of humans, even now, do not have sufficient amounts of these resources. For the future, again, hypothetically, there could be sufficient resources located somewhere in the world, but not where all humans will get them. For example, millions die today from HIV/AIDS while there are effective treatments that are available. Real peole die today from your “hypothetical” food, water, resources, and health care.
The economic pie might be growing, but, again, this does not mean the shares of everyone increase.
The problem with the world adding approximately 74 million humans per year (net gain) is that many will not receive an adequate share of the expanding pie.
You say you produce goods and services, but are you producing PRIMARY goods, i.e. food, forest products, and minerals? If not, someone else is producing those primary products for you (and me). Have you calculated into your personal production the hidden economic costs of pollution that might eventually degrade the resource base we all live on? Theoretically the carrying capacity of the earth might be increased by human ingenuity. But have the lines of the graph–population and resources–already crossed?
I am wondering if any of you have ever fostered or adopted a child? It is very easy to condemn someone elses behavior. Offering a solution to the problem requires much more personal sacrifice and responsibility.