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REALLY NEEDS TO BE SEEN LARGE; CLICK on the picture to see it BIGGER ON BLACK
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7 Billion is the new estimated world population
7 Billion dreams
7 Billion destinies
7 Billion expressions of Consciousness
New York, USA, 2011.
To yourself, you might be the world.
To the world, you do not exist.
..And that's why, seven billions of worlds exist in this planet.
It can be difficult to comprehend the true sizes of megacities, or the global spread of 8 billion people, but this series of population density maps makes the picture abundantly clear.
Created using the EU’s population density data and mapping tool Aerialod by Alasdair Rae, the 3D-rendered maps highlight demographic trends and geographic constraints.
Though they appear topographical and even resemble urban areas, the maps visualize population density in squares. The height of each bar represents the number of people living in that specific square, with the global map displaying 2km x 2km squares and subsequent maps displaying 1km x 1km squares.
Each region and country tells its own demographic story, but the largest population clusters are especially illuminating.
Source: www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/3d-mapping-the-worlds-largest...
Today's We're Here Challenge: World Population.
I tried to get a better picture of the crowd at I Heart Mac & Cheese, but didn't.
Darek turned 36 today! This evening Darek & I picked up I Heart Mac & Cheese for Us, Bob & Max and Bill & Rusty this evening. We played RumiKube and had ice cream and cake.
This one is different than the others. The accidental background pic shows US WWII soldiers who died of disease under Japanese captivity.
This video was made at the Access Tucson Studios, which is subsidized with fees from cable TV subscribers per an agreement with the City of Tucson. Anyone can make videos there.
The cameras are locked and controlled by me. The accidental exposure happened when someone (Kevin) in the control room inadvertantly hit a button.
Access Tucson does NOT allow U to advertise but U certainly can discuss books and give book reviews there!
I edited & converted this video with AVS Video Converter. The original is 50-minutes long. Google no longer allows anyone to upload videos (I kinda figured they would quit because I didn't see how they made any $$$ allowing it) and YouTube only allows 10-minute videos.
Last night (Saturday, June 6, at around 11:30pm) I received TWO notices (one-minute apart with separate case numbers) from flickr that this video violates some obscure (undefined) policy of theirs. I'm awaiting specifics as to why they dislike this video.
Flickr discussion about this in the How Not to get Deleted Group.
The music is from my Ipod set on "random"
Passacaglia in C-moll BWV 582; Bach, Johann Sebastian
Join Me (in Death), HIM
Back the fuck off, Ph8
2000 Light Years from Home, The Rolling Stones
Close to the Edge, Yes
The Heartless, HIM
The Mother of All Hockey Stick Charts. This chart shows how the world human population exploded during the past 200 years, increasing from 1 billion in 1830, to 6 billion in 2000. Be afraid, be very afraid...
... until yesterday evening I couldn't imagine that I even would say such a thing. But then I discovered the Gapminder website. I believe they found a way to show the way our world is evolving in a visual and very comprehensive manner. And I love how Hans Rosling explains the relationships between populations and their growth, education, history, economics, environment... (His "bubble" is just lovely!)
Gapminder is certainly worthy for everyone to visit!
Please do!
... and please share it!
JungleWorld, an indoor exhibit featuring a number of jungle habitats highlighting the biodiversity found tropics of Asia, opened to the public on June 21, 1985, marking the completion of the Bronx Zoo’s Wild Asia complex begun in the 1970s. The exhibit, home to around 800 animals representing 100 species and emphasizing the 150-acres of rainforest lost every minute, takes visitors on a winding path through the Zoo’s largest building, covering 37,000-square feet and reaching a height of 55-feet.
The Bronx Zoo, located within the Bronx Park, is the largest metropolitan zoo in the United States, comprising 265 acres of parklands and naturalistic habitats and home to over 4,000 animals. Focused on conservation, it opened on November 8, 1899, with 22 exhibits, 843 animals. The zoo's origins date back to 1895, with the establishment of the New york Zoological Society (NYZS), renamed Wild Conservation Scoiety (WCS) in 1993. Only the outer structure of the World of Reptiles remains much as it was in 1899. With the 1941 opening of African Plains, the Bronx Zoo was one of the first U.S. zoos to move away from cages and exhibit animals in naturalistic habitats.
The years 2007–2008 saw dramatic world food price rises, bringing a state of global crisis and causing political and economical instability and social unrest in poor and developed nations.
Systemic causes for the world-wide food price increase continue to be the subject of debate. Initial causes of the late 2006 price spikes included unseasonable droughts in grain producing nations and rising oil prices. Oil prices further heightened the costs of fertilizers, food transport, and industrial agriculture. Other causes may be the increasing use of biofuels in developed countries (see also Food vs fuel),[1] and an increasing demand for a more varied diet (especially meat) across the expanding middle-class populations of Asia.[2][3] These factors, coupled with falling world food stockpiles have all contributed to the dramatic world-wide rise in food prices.[4] Longterm causes remain a topic of debate. These may include structural changes in trade and agricultural production, agricultural price supports and subsidies in developed nations, diversions of food commodities to high input foods and fuel, commodity market speculation, and climate change.
Drastic price increases
Since the start of 2006, the average world price for rice has risen by 217 percent, wheat by 136 percent, maize by 125 percent and soybeans by 107 percent.[5] In late April 2008, rice prices hit 24 cents a pound, twice the price that it was seven months earlier.[6] ..
Factors
Several factors contributed to the rising food price. Analysts attributed the price rises to a perfect storm of poor harvests in various parts of the world, increasing biofuel usage, lower food reserves, the US Federal Reserve decreasing interest rates so that money is no longer a means to preserve wealth over the long term (people invest in food commodities which causes an increase in demand and therefore price), growing consumer demand in Asia, oil price rises, and changes to the world economy.[7]
Impact of food for fuel
One systemic cause for the price rise is held to be the diversion of food crops (maize in particular) for making first-generation biofuels.[8] An estimated 100 million tonnes of grain per year are being redirected from food to fuel.[9] (Total worldwide grain production for 2007 was just over 2000 million tonnes.[10]) As farmers devoted larger parts of their crops to fuel production than in previous years, land and resources available for food production were reduced correspondingly. This has resulted in less food available for human consumption, especially in developing and least developed countries, where a family's daily allowances for food purchases are extremely limited. The crisis can be seen, in a sense, to dichotomize rich and poor nations, since, for example, filling a tank of an average car with biofuel, amounts to as much maize (Africa's principal food staple) as an African person consumes in an entire year.[4]
Since late 2007, "Agflation," caused by the increased diversion of maize harvests in biofuels, the tying of maize to rising oil prices by commodity traders, and a resulting price rise, has caused market substitution, with price rises cascading through other commodities: first wheat and soy prices, then later rice, soy oil, and a variety of cooking oils.
Brazil, the world's second largest producer of ethanol after the U.S., is considered to have the world's first sustainable biofuels economy[11][12] and its government claims Brazil's sugar cane based ethanol industry has not contributed to the 2008 food crises.[13] (See Ethanol fuel in Brazil)
Second- and third-generation biofuels (such as cellulosic ethanol and algae fuel, respectively) may someday ease the competition with food crops, as non food energy crops can grow on marginal lands unsuited for food crops, but these advanced biofuels require further development of farming practices and refining technology; in contrast, ethanol from maize uses mature technology and the maize crop can be shifted between food and fuel use quickly.
The rich get richer while the poor get poorer. Less than 20% of the population controls over 80% of material wealth.
We can do better than this.
Confront the current inequity. Combat the environmental degradation. Local solutions hold promise.
Nações Unidas, Praia, 20 Out (Inforpress) – O II Fórum Nacional das Cidades, decorreu na Cidade da Praia sob o lema "Alterações Climáticas, Riscos Naturais e Ocupação de Solo"
Na abertura do encontro, a Coordenadora Residente do Sistema das Nações Unidas, Senhora Petra Lantz considerou que "nesta era urbana, as cidades, que concentram mais de metade da população mundial, são os mais importantes contribuintes das alterações climáticas devido as emissões de gases de estufa pela queima de combustíveis fósseis da produção industrial, dos transportes, da eliminação inadequada de resíduos sólidos e dos níveis insustentáveis de consumo. Ao mesmo tempo, as cidades são as mais vulneráveis aos efeitos das mudanças climáticas, sobretudo num quadro em que estas crescem de forma desordenada, sem planeamento de infra-estruturas adequadas, ficando vulneráveis aos riscos, e sem capacidade adaptativa. São sempre os pobres que enfrentam os piores efeitos da mudança climática, mesmo se são eles os que menos contribuem para tal".
Por isso sublinhou que é fundamental se desenvolver um novo paradigma de desenvolvimento, uma abordagem mais racional, responsável e sustentável e que as estratégias têm que ser inovadoras e mais amigas do ambiente.
Por seu lado a Ministra do Ambiente, Habitação e Ordenamento do Território, a localização subsariana e as características morfológicas e geológicas de Cabo Verde criam situações de riscos permanentes e as cidades cabo-verdianas, aonde cerca de 62 por cento da população se concentra, apresentam, de forma natural, vulnerabilidades excessivas face aos fenómenos climáticos extremos, agravadas por acções humanas que dificultam as capacidades de reacção e de resposta.
Considerando o desenvolvimento, as demandas, as concentrações das pessoas em determinadas áreas, particularmente nas costeiras, a ministra sustenta que deve-se apostar nas informação e sensibilização das populações, visando capacita-las com conhecimentos praticas de forma a que possam conhecer dos para os riscos de ocupação em áreas inadequadas. Para alem disso Sara Lopes sublinha que devem-se desenvolver linhas de investigação na matéria de alterações climáticas e riscos urbanos, bem como no alinhamento de todas as estruturas da administração central com as preocupações ambientais.
Apesar de reconhecer alguns avanços no domínio da gestão das cidades, Sara Lopes considera que ainda desafios importantes a vencer nomeadamente no sector dos transportes urbanos e interurbanos, marítimos e aéreos, pelo que se deve apostar decididamente na mobilidade das pessoas e bens.
Durante o fórum, que resulta de uma parceria entre o Ministério do Ambiente, Habitação e Ordenamento do Território e da ONU Habitat, no quadro do Programa Único, foram A apresentados o Estatuto das Cidades e o Programa Nacional de Desenvolvimento Urbano e Capacitação das Cidades. Igualmente foi dada a posse aos membros do Conselho Nacional das Cidades também constam do programa do Fórum.
Infrastructure News US consider the implications that a growing population could have on the World in 2030.
Launch at noon briefing on 17 June 2019 by Maria-Francesca Spatolisano, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs; John Wilmoth, Director, UN DESA's Population Division, and Patrick Gerland, Chief, Population Estimates and Projections Section, UN DESA's Population Division.
Photo: Helen Daun Rosengren/UN DESA
Celebrate world population day and raise awareness.🌎🙌
Happy World Population Day👨👩👧👦
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Launch at noon briefing on 17 June 2019 by Maria-Francesca Spatolisano, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs; John Wilmoth, Director, UN DESA's Population Division, and Patrick Gerland, Chief, Population Estimates and Projections Section, UN DESA's Population Division.
Photo: Helen Daun Rosengren/UN DESA
Launch at noon briefing on 17 June 2019 by Maria-Francesca Spatolisano, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs; John Wilmoth, Director, UN DESA's Population Division, and Patrick Gerland, Chief, Population Estimates and Projections Section, UN DESA's Population Division.
Photo: Helen Daun Rosengren/UN DESA
Launch at noon briefing on 17 June 2019 by Maria-Francesca Spatolisano, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs; John Wilmoth, Director, UN DESA's Population Division, and Patrick Gerland, Chief, Population Estimates and Projections Section, UN DESA's Population Division.
Photo: Helen Daun Rosengren/UN DESA
Launch at noon briefing on 17 June 2019 by Maria-Francesca Spatolisano, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs; John Wilmoth, Director, UN DESA's Population Division, and Patrick Gerland, Chief, Population Estimates and Projections Section, UN DESA's Population Division.
Photo: Helen Daun Rosengren/UN DESA
Launch at noon briefing on 17 June 2019 by Maria-Francesca Spatolisano, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs; John Wilmoth, Director, UN DESA's Population Division, and Patrick Gerland, Chief, Population Estimates and Projections Section, UN DESA's Population Division.
Photo: Helen Daun Rosengren/UN DESA
Launch at noon briefing on 17 June 2019 by Maria-Francesca Spatolisano, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs; John Wilmoth, Director, UN DESA's Population Division, and Patrick Gerland, Chief, Population Estimates and Projections Section, UN DESA's Population Division.
Photo: Helen Daun Rosengren/UN DESA
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Launch at noon briefing on 17 June 2019 by Maria-Francesca Spatolisano, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs; John Wilmoth, Director, UN DESA's Population Division, and Patrick Gerland, Chief, Population Estimates and Projections Section, UN DESA's Population Division.
Photo: Helen Daun Rosengren/UN DESA
by Jacqueline Kasun
285 pages – paperback
The idea that humanity is multiplying at a terrible and accelerating rate is one of the false dogmas of our times. From that notion springs the widely held belief that unless population growth is immediately contained by every governmental and private method imaginable, mankind faces imminent disaster. These ideas form the basis for an enormous international population-control industry that involves billions of dollars of taxes as well as the full time efforts of scores of private philanthropies. Embodied in their agenda is the sort of social planning that actually mandates draconian control over families, churches and other voluntary institutions around the globe.
Point by point, Dr. Kasun shatters the dogmas of the controllers--tenets that simply fall apart under close scrutiny and comparison with a mountain of data that the controllers refuse to confront. This is a fascinating book, a tour de force effort to restore reality to a subject that has become unmoored by ideology.
Launch at noon briefing on 17 June 2019 by Maria-Francesca Spatolisano, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs; John Wilmoth, Director, UN DESA's Population Division, and Patrick Gerland, Chief, Population Estimates and Projections Section, UN DESA's Population Division.
Photo: Helen Daun Rosengren/UN DESA
Let us celebrate World Population Day by promising ourselves to be more responsible towards the alarming rate of growing population. Let’s save Earth by controlling population.
Launch at noon briefing on 17 June 2019 by Maria-Francesca Spatolisano, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs; John Wilmoth, Director, UN DESA's Population Division, and Patrick Gerland, Chief, Population Estimates and Projections Section, UN DESA's Population Division.
Photo: Helen Daun Rosengren/UN DESA
Launch at noon briefing on 17 June 2019 by Maria-Francesca Spatolisano, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs; John Wilmoth, Director, UN DESA's Population Division, and Patrick Gerland, Chief, Population Estimates and Projections Section, UN DESA's Population Division.
Photo: Helen Daun Rosengren/UN DESA
The world population was 3 billion in 1960 and by 1975 it rose to 4 billion. By 1990 it was 5 billion and in 2000 it crossed 6 billion. By 2010 it had crossed 7 billion and it is expected to cross 9 billion by 2040.
www.researchomatic.com/Exponential-Population-Growth-In-A...
Launch at noon briefing on 17 June 2019 by Maria-Francesca Spatolisano, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs; John Wilmoth, Director, UN DESA's Population Division, and Patrick Gerland, Chief, Population Estimates and Projections Section, UN DESA's Population Division.
Photo: Helen Daun Rosengren/UN DESA
Launch at noon briefing on 17 June 2019 by Maria-Francesca Spatolisano, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs; John Wilmoth, Director, UN DESA's Population Division, and Patrick Gerland, Chief, Population Estimates and Projections Section, UN DESA's Population Division.
Photo: Helen Daun Rosengren/UN DESA
Launch at noon briefing on 17 June 2019 by Maria-Francesca Spatolisano, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs; John Wilmoth, Director, UN DESA's Population Division, and Patrick Gerland, Chief, Population Estimates and Projections Section, UN DESA's Population Division.
Photo: Helen Daun Rosengren/UN DESA
Launch at noon briefing on 17 June 2019 by Maria-Francesca Spatolisano, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs; John Wilmoth, Director, UN DESA's Population Division, and Patrick Gerland, Chief, Population Estimates and Projections Section, UN DESA's Population Division.
Photo: Helen Daun Rosengren/UN DESA
Launch at noon briefing on 17 June 2019 by Maria-Francesca Spatolisano, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs; John Wilmoth, Director, UN DESA's Population Division, and Patrick Gerland, Chief, Population Estimates and Projections Section, UN DESA's Population Division.
Photo: Helen Daun Rosengren/UN DESA