The population increase on our planet has assumed a threatening and uncontrolled scale
Last reviewed: 16.10.2021
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In one of the Australian institutes, a team of specialists conducted a study that showed that the population of the earth is growing too fast. According to forecasts at the end of the 21st century, the earth's population will reach ten billion (to date, according to some data on the earth, about seven billion live).
According to the study, the increase in population on our planet is already impossible to control, it has acquired large-scale and dangerous rates. Australian experts in their study took as a basis the data of the World Health Organization and the United Nations, as well as the dynamics of population growth of the planet. As a result, scientists came to the conclusion that "natural selection" is not able to normalize the population on earth, and even the Third World War is not able to improve the situation, since the birth rate has completely escaped control, having increased by almost 1/3.
According to Professor Carrie Bradshaw, the rapid growth of the world's population is unacceptable, since it can threaten quite serious problems, in particular, worsening the already severe environmental situation, climate change, lack of necessary food and drinking water.
To date, China is the largest state in terms of population, but perhaps in ten years India can surpass China in number.
Until 1991, the largest state (the third in a row) was the Soviet Union, but after the collapse of its position took the United States of America (since 2006, the number of Americans has reached 300 million).
Further on the number of population are Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Russia.
It is worth recalling that at the meeting of the members of the Committee of the National Meeting of Alternative Representatives, the law "One Family - One Child" was slightly weakened, and labor camps were also eliminated.
According to Chinese lawmakers, the system that proposed correction through forced labor should be replaced by new methods.
The Chinese system of labor camps has been introduced since 1957, and according to the law, the authorities had every right even for minor offenses to send people to labor camps without preliminary investigation and trial.
The decision to weaken the policy regarding the demographic situation in the country was also decided by legislators, since the principle of only one child in the family caused disapproval among the population. The authorities decided to allow a second child in a family where the mother or father is the only child in their former family (before the second child was allowed to have only when both mother and father were the only children of their parents).
This policy was introduced about three decades ago, but local mass media believe that such an approach only led to the aging of the Chinese population, which caused a number of indignations on the part of the main part of the Chinese public.