If the human population is decreasing why does PIC consider theres a problem?
First, to clarify – it is the rate of growth that’s decreasing, not overall numbers. In other words, the world’s population is growing at a lower rate, but it’s still growing. In fact, we need to feed, clothe, house, transport, educate and medicate 75 million additional people – 100 cities the size of Ottawa – each year. Also, the annual rate of growth is unequal. It is low in the developed world (averaging 0.4%), and very high (well over 3%) in many of the poorest areas least able to deal with it. Half of the world’s people are under the age of 25 (in some Third World countries, 45% are under15), so that even if replacement fertility rates were by some miracle achieved, the overall population would continue to rise, and for some time. Recent UN studies estimate that global numbers peak between 2050 and 2100 at between 9 and 11 billion people. This, however, is an informed guess. The total might be higher, or it might be curtailed sooner by a variety of natural disasters. Quite simply,
