Every day, about 350,000 people are born and 150,000 die. Run this
loop for a few decades, and the United Nations projects that we're on
track to increase global population by about one-third by 2050.
Most of that growth will
happen in the poorest countries on Earth. Despite their poverty, those
two billion people will add to the atmosphere at least three times the
current greenhouse gas emissions of the U.S. This fact alone has given
the efforts to slow population growth new urgency: the U.K.'s Optimum
Population Trust has calculated that paying for contraception in the
developing world is approximately four times more cost-effective per ton of greenhouse gases saved than to fund, for example, renewable energy projects.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Good Riddance to the Population Explosion: Keys to Prevent Unsustainable Growth: Scientific American
Author: Christopher Mims
