Source: BBC
It’s frightful, how many of us there are! Planet Earth has a human population of 7.5 billion. In the year 2100, there will be 11 billion of us. How will the planet be able to feed all of these people?Facing this human wave, the media is for the first time showing ahint of worry – even in France, a champion of pro-birth policies, where the media are most definitely pro-baby.We live in an child-obsessed society. The child is considered a guarantee of happiness, of personal development, and even of social status.Those who are child-free (there’s no equivalent term in French) are described as selfish and suspected of being bad citizens. Many of them feel pressure to justify themselves: “I can’t have any, but I love children.” To which I hasten to reply, just to spice up the conversation: “I have some, but have reasons to hate children.” Not that I’m in a position to argue for a declining birth rate. Having two children, I cannot tell others: “Don’t do as I did.” Yet I also find it hypocritical to hide behind the smokescreen of idealism (“There’s nothing more beautiful than a child’s smile”) to justify my questionable life choices. I am a fierce opponent of brainwashing and of pathos. It’s time to stop marketing the babies-spell-happiness idea. Enough of this big “baby-illusion”!
Categories: Americas
There is a very good article in National Geographic regarding this topic.
This is about food wastage mostly in developed countries and how to stop it.
Just stopping the wastage would manage to feed more than the number quoted above – ref. National Geographic March 2016.