Population Bomb Summary

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Avoid a non military threat that ranks in importance with thermonuclear war. The non military threat is over population 9 billion people cramped into the world that now has trouble holding 6.5 billion.

American is starting released that underdeveloped countries of the world face inevitable population- food crises. It now seems that it will continue to its logical conclusion: mass starvation….of these poor, a minimum ten million people, most of them children, will starve to death during each year of the 1970s. But this will be a mere handful compared to that this will be starving before the end of the century.

Instead, the global growth rate dropped from 2 percent in the mid-1960s to roughly half that today, with many countries no longer producing enough babies to avoid falling populations.

Indeed, the global population of children younger than 5 is expected to fall by 49 million as of mid-century, while the number of people older than 60 will grow by 1.2 billion.

Then, because of the continuing fall in birth rates, humans will face the very real prospect that our numbers will fall as fast - if not faster - than the rate at which they once grew.

Today, however, we see that birth rates are reducing below replacement levels even in countries hardly known for luxury.

Of the 59 countries producing fewer children than needed to sustain their populations, 18 are characterized by the United Nations as "developing," i.e., not rich.

Indeed, most developing countries are experiencing population aging at extraordinary rates.

South Korea and Taiwan, with some of the lowest birth rates of any major country, will lose population within 15 years.

Population of 310 million will continue to grow relative to that of the rest of the developed world, primarily because its birth rate, while barely at replacement level, is still higher than that of almost any other industrialized country.

Consider what happened with Puerto Rico, where birth rates have also plunged: Immigration to the mainland United States has all but stopped despite an open border and the lure of a considerably higher standard of living on the continent.

Over time, low birth rates lead not only to fewer children, but also to fewer working-age people just as the percentage of dependent elders explodes.

Fewer young adults mean fewer people needing to purchase new homes, new furniture and the like, as well as fewer people likely to take entrepreneurial risks.

The world is not overpopulated; the human population will remain relatively stable at 9 billion until the year 2300. The reason is that the birth rate are naturally falling around the world

➢ Population growth occur when the birth rate exceed the death rate ➢ In china 1950,60: • Children encourage, fertility rate 5.9

• 1979-1979 new policy to cope with over population

• “one is good”, “2 is ok”, and “3 is too many”

• 1979 “one child” policy enacted

➢ Pakistan fertility rate is 4.14 world ranks 52, Afghanistan is 6.75 world ranks 2, and Somalia is 6.83 world rank 1, Brazil 1.93 world rank 143, and Russia 1.27 world rank 218. ➢ Two important indicator of progress and improvement in life are • Decrease infant mortality • Increase life expectancy

➢ Both hunger and fertility occur when: Poverty is extreme and wide spread, society denies security and opportunity to people, infant mortality is high, and most people cannot get land, jobs, education, health care old age security, few opportunities for women outside.