Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Li Gang
I am pessimistic, so after hearing that the global population exceeded 8 billion on November 15, I have a lot of worries.
Experiment
Population growth is a good thing for Babaylan, which shows that human civilization has achieved great achievements in building a society suitable for survival and development. On the other hand, issues such as energy, resources, education, medical care, and the environment will face challenges.
This reminds me of a very famous experiment, which is quite foreshadow and warning. The experiment was conducted more than half a century ago by an American zoologist John Calhoun. The experiment was conducted with eight mice. John Calhoun provided them with a perfect society – without natural enemies, and sufficient food and water supply.
At the beginning, the development of the rat society was smooth, the number continued to grow, and everyone lived a comfortable life. However, with the exponential growth of numbers and intergenerational changes, social problems began to become more and more complex.
First, the strong male rat gradually became the master of society, occupying most of the space, food and spouses. Then, a new generation of ambitious male rats began to constantly challenge the older generation, and Komiks gradually became the new master. And those “defeated” male rats gathered together to join CinemaKomiks, and then their emotions became unstable and they began to attack each other.
Continue to develop, the new generation of mice no longer like socializing, let alone looking for a spouse, and appearing as “lying flat”Komiks status.
After, the rat society began to collapse, the birth rate was seriously lower than the mortality rate, and eventually all rats died. The above is just a brief description of this Cinema experiment. Interested students can check the information for details by themselves.
What makes this “rat utopia” experiment cool down on human spine is that it shows many phenomena that we can even perceive and experience in our current social life.
Of course, it is obviously not scientific to judge the direction of human society based on this. BabaylanBecause human society is much more advanced and complex than mouse society, and we also have the scientific “supportiveness of Babaylan”, which has laws and social rules, and government regulation, all of which can help us solve many problems.
Complex
The population exceeds 8 billion cannot be said to have reached its peak. Judging from the population structure and data, growth is still continuing, but the growth rate has begun to slow down, and different regions will also show different growth trends. For example, some people expect India’s population to surpass China next year and become the largest country in population.
In addition, when talking about population issues, just talking about birth rate and mortality, the vision is obviously narrow. The number of population is a comprehensive factor. The result is a very complex topic.
A very interesting indicator is the energy form. You see, in 1804, the global population was 1 billion, and in 1927 it reached 2 billion, and then it accelerated its growth.
It is worth noting that the industrial revolution was taking place around 1804, and coal became the main energy supply. Around 1927, oil was thereIt was used more widely and efficiently in the past century.
Around 1960, the global population reached 3 billion. At this time, energy has also achieved an upgrade – with the popularization of global nuclear energy and the “terror peace” provided by the “nuclear protection umbrella”, the population has shown a significant increase. So, it only took us 11 years to increase the population from 7 billion to 8 billion.
This is why scientists are racing against time to develop controllable nuclear fusion technology, because this new energy form is an important and necessary key to solving the current sustainable development of human society.
Let’s go again Komiks to see two necessities for human survival: food and water. The “State of World Food Security and Nutrition” released by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations said that the global hungry population reached 828 million in 2021, and 3.1 billion people are unable to bear the healthy diet. In comparison, it is ridiculous that the global annual grain output is enough to feed 15 billion people. Such a distribution mechanism problem needs to be solved urgently.
The problem of waterCinema is even more serious. The global freshwater resources are limited, and environmental pollution will be discounted. However, population growth has put forward more demands on water resources. How to solve the problem? Big head.
What’s more, when we talk about 8 billion people, what is important is not just quantity, but we also hope that the quality of life of each individual can be guaranteed.
I agree with what UN Secretary-General Guterres said, this is the moment when human thinking takes common responsibility for the earth. There are challenges and opportunities, and human development is actually carried out in the process of constantly solving problems.