tamil 12 1990 was an historic day did you celebrate probably know
the world's population reached 6 billion
1988 the world's population reached 50 it took the whole of the Earth's history
to get the five billion in just 12 years to get to 650 the world's population is
going to be kind billion nine billion population never gonna do we control
people like 300 years we have found ways to prevent diseases increased food
production more and more us are living longer and healthier ones the
last century the United States the wife expected see average person has done so
that's good news for dying
the bad news fewer and fewer of us are dying
new there are about a hunderd and fifty more people who were there wrer a minute
ago when the showstares the world's population has doubled twice in the last
hundred years but we here in the United States hardly noticed this population
explosion is there an upper limit to the number of people that we can have in the
world and have we gone past that limit but for us here in the developed world
does that even matter
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they get big fast facts we call this an exponential curve when its current just a little bit as you move this way as it gets more curved more and more in a hurry exponential curve just a little sound energy at this end makes a lot of noise at that is exponential curve are as the story goes in ancient Persia courtier presented the king whit an exquisite chess King is very pleased for payment or ask for nothing more than grains of rice think that the count he was very foolish paid the Spanish he wanted single grain for the first two grains for the second or third and so doubling each time the end of the first rode the King would need 128 grains of rice at the 12 square would need more than a pound of rights to cover the entire debt all 64 square the king would need more than entire would production waeeior wasn't so foolish after all this is going doubling each time in 1965 when I attended the world spare the world's population just reached three billion people more than double in my lifetime I know where we are on the evolutionary chessboard of life how many more billions do you think the earth continued ...
21st century
the population explosion is the most pronounced in Africa and Nigeria for example the average number of children born per women is six point to remember population growth is a global issue as a species we all share just one planet that's why population growth is at the top of the list of concerns at the united nations what did you do at the United Nations in 1994 when I was the secertary general of the International Conference on population and development and we found that really general women wanting to have fewer children that actually in Africa where the distillers family size was about but the desired family size and when you ask people why then did they have access number interesting responses and the first prize but we don't make those decisions that decision is made by the by the family of what is expected us by the society and so we came to the conclusion that somehowgive them information they changed their social environment in which decisions of these kinds were me then in fact that national demographic objectives and the global demographic objectives would in fact
coincide whit individual need and desires one of the common mi sconceptions about programs that if you provide information and young people will become sexually active and that if you provide them access to services like you know contraceptives that they will be promiscuous it is totally the poopsite of what we have found you find that sexual activity is in fact that later
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tamil 12 1990 was an historic day did you celebrate probably know
the world's population reached 6 billion
1988 the world's population reached 50 it took the whole of the Earth's history
to get the five billion in just 12 years to get to 650 the world's population is
going to be kind billion nine billion population never gonna do we control
people like 300 years we have found ways to prevent diseases increased food
production more and more us are living longer and healthier ones the
last century the United States the wife expected see average person has done so
that's good news for dying
the bad news fewer and fewer of us are dying
new there are about a hunderd and fifty more people who were there wrer a minute
ago when the showstares the world's population has doubled twice in the last
hundred years but we here in the United States hardly noticed this population
explosion is there an upper limit to the number of people that we can have in the
world and have we gone past that limit but for us here in the developed world
does that even matter
of what we have found you find that
sexual activity is in fact that later
that the number of abortions our
pregnancies in these countries come down
very dramatically 1994 human history
terms as the first time peopl