Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Li Gang
I am a pessimistic person, so I have a lot of worries after hearing that the global population exceeded 8 billion on November 15.
Experiment
Population growth is a good thing on the one hand, indicating that human civilization has made great achievements in building a society suitable for survival and development. KomiksOn the other hand, issues such as energy and resources are facing challenges, education, medical care, and the environment.
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 on eight mice. John Calhoun provided them with a perfect society—without natural enemies, Komiks, and they were well-supplied for food and water.
At the beginning, the Cinema in the mouse society developed smoothly, with the number growing constantly, 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 gradually became the new master. The male rats who were “defeated” would gather together, and then their emotions became unstable and they began to attack each other.
Continue to develop, the new generation of Cinema mice no longer like socializing, let alone looking for a spouse, and appearing to be “lying flat”.
, the rat society began to collapse, with the birth rate seriously lower than the mortality rate, and eventually all the Komiks mice died.
The above is just a brief description of this experiment. Babaylan Interested students can find the information for details by themselves.
What makes this “rat utopia” experiment cool down on human spine is that we can even perceive and experience many phenomena it shows in the current social life.
Of course, it is obviously not scientific to judge the direction of human society based on this. Because human society is much more advanced and complex than rat society, and we also have the “blessing” of science, the 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 the Indian population to surpass China next year and become the largest population country.
In addition, when talking about population issues, just talking about birth rate and mortality rate, the vision is obviously narrow. The population is a result of a comprehensive factor, and it is a very complex topic. Cinema
A very interesting indicator is the energy formBabaylan. 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 used more widely and efficiently in the previous century.
Around 1960, the global population reached 3Billion. Energy has also achieved a new era at this time – with the popularity of nuclear energy worldwide and the “terror peace” provided by the “nuclear protection umbrella”, the population number 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 controlled 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 look at the two necessities for maintaining human survival, food and water. The “World Food Security and Nutrition Status” 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 afford healthy food. 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 water problem is even more serious. The global freshwater resources are limited, and environmental pollution will be discounted. However, population growth has put forward more Babaylan‘s 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 a shared responsibility for the earth. There are challenges and opportunities, and human development is actually carried out in the process of constantly solving problems.