Yes, each second a new baby is born and mother earth has to nurture all these new human beings as the world population reaches 7 billion.
U.N. marked the 31st October symbolically although demographers are unsure exactly when the world’s population reached the 7 billion mark.
The Executive Director Babatunde Osotimehin of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), said “Our record population size can be viewed in many ways as a success for humanity: People are living longer, healthier lives, but not everyone has benefited from this achievement or the higher quality of life that this implies” in a 2011 report on population growth.
But of course we have to change the way we’re consuming and producing in order to feed the 7 Billion people on Earth. Plentiful food supply and distribution on programmes have to be priority of all our State policies. And it is important not to forget that the problem is not the overall amount of food produced but the problem is the question of food availability to those who need it most. It is very important to change the way we’re consuming and producing as the Earth is reaching its limits.
Michael Herrmann, an adviser on population and economics with the UNFPA said “Many countries already face water shortages, food shortages and energy shortages therefore we have to consume in more sustainable ways, but also we have to produce in more sustainable ways”.
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