Reading through Jeff Sach's 'Commonwealth' on global challenges one discovers simple paradigmatic appraisals of the world's major challenges regarding demographics, environment and poverty and feasible approaches for solving them. President Obama has failed to nuse the bully pulpit of the Presidency the past four years to educate Americans on several basic points-and they need to know if federal foreign and domestic policy is to ever change from the same old, same old.
The population of Africa is expected to more than double from one billion 2.2 billion by 2050 while Asia's will increase by 1.3 billion. Europe and Russia's population will decrease from 713 million to 630 million appx. Italy's present 1.3 per family rate of population decrease would bring the present population of 58 billion downward by the year 2300 to 600,000 people. Evidently, and hopefully perhaps, population nexplosions can change to poulation implosions reducing population without war, plague or famine.
Most future wars are expected to be in the regions of high populkation growth and poverty, With prosperity the population growth halts and perhaps eventually reverses. Because of heterosexual facts no genetic loss need occurs with population reduction, and the infusing of the human genome may create a genetically rich human population on Earth stabilizing at whatever number is desirable.
Inn a way the demographic growth and war on the environment is a kind o9f battle of the bulge that humanity can win. Poverty needs to be eliminated and full employment occur within a rational free market with competent government. Fossil fuels generate 29 Gigatons of CO2 annually and deforestation seven. With smarter people, better politicians educating the public and a recovering ecosystem stopping loss of existing species humanity has hope that nit can remain alive and reach for the stars.
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