Overcrowded World The world at present, has reached a dangerous state of being. Recent surveys have already shown there is a excess of 10 billion people living on our planet today. The stress they pose on our natural resources and environment is overwhelming, and our world degrades rapidly as a result. Yet, in the face of such dilemma, very few national governments had taken this issue seriously.
The built up effects from fossil fuels being burn to feed our specie's population are causing our sea levels to rise as glaciers melt. In next ten years, the sea level is expected to rise by two to three meters. When that happens, coastal settlements will be displace, and our human population will move more and more inland as the sea encroaches upon us. The super crowded slums of Taijitu's most populous nations will get even more packed. Living conditions will worsen as we find tens of thousands of people living inside a single block of a city.
Our natural resources are growing more scarce, yet our population continues to grow, feed, and pollute. Worldwide, people are seeing a huge price increases in food and grain as a result. Our fossil fuel reserves also seem to be reaching their limit. In Loyan, natural gas production has already peak and will dwindle to nothing in an estimate 32 years. The same pattern can be seen elsewhere, where burgeoning developing economies draw in huge amounts of ever decreasing reserves of coal, steel, and oil. Even water is expected to run scarce in the next ten years as present sources are depleted or contaminated.
But what can do about this coming doomsday? Not much. We already reach the point of no return, the world population growth continues to spiral out of control. One solution for nations will be to impose the one child policy, but a human rights bazaar stands in the way of this proposal. Most countries are reluctant to impose these measures that impeach on their citizen rights. Loyan, which indeed had a one child policy ten years ago, has already repel this measure. The result has been effective in limiting population on the island nation, and some activists are pushing for it's reenactment. Another solution will be the complete embrace of the Green Revolution, but what nation today is really fully committed to changing their old ways and adopting newer and more expensive measures that businesses hate?
Personally, I'll just sit back with a couple of beers and watch the world destroy itself...the human success story, both a blessing and a curse.
Vida Gonin
