Apart from fighting climate change, wars and other natural calamities, the world is faced with a new problem that threatens to fight civilization and the problem is population collapse.
Elon Musk, businessman and CEO of Space X (formerly Twitter) took to his timeline with a placard inscribed ‘the population crisis is real’.
However, his statement was met with mixed reactions from netizens with some saying the world was already over populated while others down played the issue as a non-event.
‘8 billion humans are plenty, far more than we really need. give some room for the rest of the earth’, said a user identified as Razel.
‘Interesting shift in narrative! Just a few years ago, many economists were concerned about the opposite – population explosion. Now, the tune seems to be changing to population collapse as a major threat. It underscores the dynamic and complex nature of global demographic trends. Is India growing faster because of 1.5 billion people?’, said Prashant Thakur, a USA author and blogger.
Meanwhile, South Korea’s government recently warned that low fertility rate will further fall, while China’s fertility rate is estimated to have touched a record low of 1.09m last year with births below 10 m for the first time in history.
In Japan, 18-year-olds slipped to a record-low of 1.06m while Singapore’s birth rate is also reported to be at a record low.
According to statistics, Vietnam’s low birth rate continues to fall.
In Italy, recently Pope Francis expressed concern about the country’s low birth rate while fertility rate in the Netherlands dropped to record low.
In Indiana’s birth rate fell dramatically, dropping from 14.1 births per 1,000 people to 11.7, per 1000 according, to the new CDC data.
The world population is estimated to have reached 8 billion on November 15, 2022, according to the United Nations (U.N.) Population Division.
By Desmond Nleya
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