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- As of November 15, the world's population has exceeded 8 billion people - a growth of another billion in just over a decade. India is on course to drive global population growth. But can it handle the challenges that come with it?
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#India #8billion
She said "we are managing well" and by that she meant surviving life, not living a life.
There are fewer people starving today than at any point ever in history.. most would say that's "living life".
@@dahlizz99
It's relative I guess.
@@fomtooo234 well no. People have a lot easier life on average than ever. Compare feeling lonely to having to eat your children because you're starving. That's hardly relative
@@dahlizz99
That's a good point.
The rabbits in my city are all over since the pandemic. They’re multiplying like humans.
Another Malthus shill. He is still wrong centuries later.
😂
Nicely done.
@@segurosincero4057 it’s true BTW. Deer also. Even foxes now to eat the rabbits I suspect.
@@SeeLasSee awesome. What city?
This is what happens when you decide that you have nothing better to do than to constantly engage in the activity that promotes procreation, rather than working on improving living conditions for the already existing population. The same thing is occurring in Indonesia. One would think that the correlation would be obvious but, if they see it, that doesn't appear to be having any affect on their behavior.
If India can give proper living spaces to it's people population will not increase.
Wtf, no! India's and China's population have been high throughout history, due to the highly fertile land for agriculture. Currently, India's population is increasing, but the rate of increase is decreasing. After reaching a population of 1.6 billion, the population will go down.
Most of the population increase will come from African countries. This is due to their increasing standard of living and hence longevity of life. Remember though, the population is not increasing because more babies are born, but it increases as people keep living longer. The elderly population is increasing.
@@devenford2322 In 2020, the birthrate for the U.S.A. was 1.64 children per woman, and for India, in the same year, it was 2.18.
On top of this, in terms of sheer numbers, the U.S.A. receives far more immigrants than any other country in the world. In 2021, the percentage of the population from American immigrants was 26%, while for India, it was 0.04%, putting it in 14th place.
While the life expectancy in the U.S.A. has gone down in the last couple of years, it's still over 77 years, while India's is barely over 70 years.
India's agricultural exports have jumped exponentially in the past year, now being 19%, while the U.S.A.'s are at 20%; but, in sheer numbers, that's 50.21 billion U.S. dollars for India, and 177 billion U.S. dollars for America.
So, let's not candy-coat the situation.
Or...this is what happens when people do not have access to comprehensive sex ed, abortion and contraception. 🙃
🤔purpose of life vs expensive birth control s make that stuff cheaper and more available
“India’s population may not be a very big problem”, “In terms of demographic challenges we are doing pretty well”, “Migration could be a savior in that sense”, what kind of analysis is this lady doing?
Because with that massive population comes cheap labor. With that cheap labor India aims to become global manufacturing hub
She is referring to North Indians migrating to ageing South Indian states. Kind of like younger Eastern Europeans migrating in search of work in ageing Western Europe who need more workers.
Yes. LOL. She is a very POSITIVE lady.
I think she’s in “positive denial”. Same as someone hoping for “the Rapture “.
Please people in Africa/Asia learn more about family planning, not only are you putting your children in misery, hunger and poverty, you are also endangering our planet. The constant growth of the population requires the expenditure of large resources, you will have to cut down more forests, build more cities, which will cause irreparable damage to nature.
It is better to have one well-fed, clothed and educated child than 2-3-4 hungry children suffering from poverty all their childhood.
The main thing is quality, not quantity.
I'll pass that go to them 🤣
Go and personally talk to them .. they don't understand English
and those who understand ..they have already implemented that ..for my country India - TFR below 2 🫠
Bruh u cannot tell them unless u go to their country and tell it becoz those people who breed many kids r poor people that dont have internet access
Populations are increasing not because of the increase in the rate of births but are a result of the previously high birth rates due to better living conditions. It's like a car that has accelerated to a certain speed. Now the car will decelerate, but it will keep travelling forward.
Quality of life that the west has stolen from them! Even with high populations, the developing world causes the least harm to the environment compared to the resource-hungry developed world. Plus, the west depends on the slavish work conditions and cheap labor to get their commodities. Know a little about the world and the people who live in it before advising them!!
Dont think 8 billion people want to share.
It is impossible...
But if they don't share they may die...
Its naive to believe you can get 8 billion people to share even with the argument you are making.
@@ebubechiibegbula5968 Switzerland doesn't share and that's why we're #1.
Americans won’t share the time of day which is why they’re last.
At the end of the day, there WILL be a winner and a loser.
Which side are you?
the math says three people are born nearly every second
Russia "The world population just reach 8 billion? Ok we will fix that"
WE NEED A NEW VIRUS..😂
Speak for yourself 😂
Over population is the problem, not diesel cars .
It stuns me that the most poor people who cannot afford huge families are doing the most breeding.
Stupidity lack of education
Yeah because all the rich people in the North STOLE their resources and therefore can't afford sexual education.
Like out of Idiocracy
@Wise Acres can you give a source?
Poor = lack of education, lack of understanding.
Happy birthday, 8 billionth crewmate. Hopefully we can save spaceship earth and keep technical civilization so that you can grow up
8 billionth crewmate says, gugu gaga.
Spaceship, crewmate...sounds pathetic.
I'll go and live in a cave in Alaska somewhere rather than live like that.
People don't have choices in most cases
We can’t, especially when few if any countries will have sufficiently transitioned to renewable energy by the time the oil runs out. Which is just one of the main reasons why many millions if not billions will die due to starvation, disease, war or other man-made calamities before this century is over.
If you haven't heard yet, a huge chunk of global oil is going to run out on dec.5th.
The oil is not going to run out.
It will still be available onc 3374903 has been frozen out based on its self denial in favor of remewables.
Nature will ultimately do what man will not. Granted, disease, famine, pandemics, war, etc., are devastating to societies in their effects. However, they all do one thing extremely well. They help control the World population. I know that this sounds morbid, but without death, all current life, yet alone new life, is not able to thrive.
I'm wondering if Thanos was right.
Ok this lady is living in dreamland. The people are suffering..
The United Nations predicts that world population will peak in 2080 plateau and begin a slow but accelerating decline. Other demographic models put the date closer to 2070.
These models do not factor in the possibility of rapid population decline due to kinetic factors.
i'd pretty much predict it will decline pretty rapidly here fairly soon honestly. they also must not be counting russia in their "census" because that number is surely going decreasing.
Glad we decided not to have children!!!!
@@cristinataliani5619The people running things have plenty of land, but they don't have children. Children are a blessing from the Lord.
Some of those kinetic factors are high cost of living, terrible taxation, job insecurity, unemployment, increasing property prices due to the real estate mafias etc..
@@cristinataliani5619 My four children are true humanitarians. They treat children, elderly, people of different races with absolute dignity. I'm glad we had them.
Hello world, let me introduce you to the condom, it allowed me to retire at 47.
Living the no kids and 3 money life.
Are condoms biodegradable? Maybe use them twice, or share with your friends 🤪🤣🤣🤣
She paints a rosy picture ~ probably needs to in order to keep her job.
The pandemic had little effect then.
They were stuck at home and had nothing else to do?
.043% mortality rate I do believe
Lockdowns have done their job for sure, of destroying modern civilization
Virus did nothing to people but maybe the jab will 😂
Not in the right areas
The problem is not 8 billion people, the problem is our current system preserves the insanity such as 8 men having more wealth than half of the population.
There are more than enough resources for the people.... there just isn't enough for Greed.
Mother nature will sort it out one way or another
“It’s a big number.” Maybe, in your opinion. But, not everyone agrees that that number is “big.” I would’ve expected more objective journalism from a news station I can supposedly trust.
Answer : 8 billion people can't...
So, might I suggest "A Modest Proposal"...?
Jonathan Swift...
@@Corny80 The man was a gourmand with vision...
Its a lot more than 8 billion since the people in the slums and remote village areas are not counted
And they are all in rubber boats in the English Channel☠️
How can 8 billion people sustainably share a planet? Well, the Soylent company would like to introduce their newest nutritional product ...
Wow😮
And they were so worried about Covid deaths. 🙄
You should have been one.
Ironic that countries with high per Capita resource consumption and per Capita emissions are worried about sustainability.
India should adopt "one-child" policy to reduce its population as soon as possible
The continuous in population increase will prove to be disastrous in the near future ☺
A newly released revision of the United Nations Population Division's demographic projections estimates that by the end of this century, China will no longer be the most populous country in the world. 3:36
The two main causes leading to over population in India are: The birth rate is still higher than the death rate. We have been successful in declining the death rates but the same cannot be said for birth rates.
Sources: Foreign Policy; MapsofIndia
Meanwhile, Canada is 95% unpopulated, the second largest country in the world and a total population of 38 Million. You can drive for days in Canada and see nothing but gas stations every 200 km and forests. Population is very unbalanced around the world.
Well there’s a reason why most of Canada is it populated and I’m sure you know the reason for that.. don’t know why you aren’t saying the reason. Most people aren’t going to want to live on frozen tundra all year round and not to mention it’s all starting to melt everywhere in Canada Alaska Russia all the northern places. So everything is sinking in. Also so many foreigners want to be picky about where they live and it seems to always be the goddamn United States. Most just walk over the border and then make the country as a whole worse and worse every single one. Now the ones that actually do the application and fill it out and do the whole waiting game I have respect for it no problem with them. Instead we get a bunch of illegal murderers and people all of our supplies and they think that they are owed something.
@@bmorg5190 Only Northern Canada is in the Arctic. Canada is 6000Kms wide and you can comfortably live in Edmonton. That is more inhabitable land than India with only 38 million people; Manitoba could easily be home to 30 million people.
@@bmorg5190 literally everyone I’ve ever met is glad they don’t live in the US. Especially ones that come from there!
@@bmorg5190 Stop stealing the resources from the Global South and overthrowing their governments and they will not want to go to that racist, fascist, with no culture country.
@@jiffypoo5029 The reality is you cannot live in most of Canada (Edmonton included) sustainably. Canada is one of the highest polluters per capita in the world.
It's horrible the poor families in developing nations are having too
Many children we need birth control now dammit thanks for covering this dw
One child policy for India and Africa, learn from China mistakes.
Introduce quota for population growth for each country. Reduce the growth rate and gradually reduce population over the next two decades.
@@toromontana8290 There are places that have practically no work option available to the local population. The long term solution is the same, quota for population growth.
We need another COVID, with zombies this time.
Population needs to be in balance with jobs, resources, nature and the environment. Having a bigger population in any country than the country can support makes no sense. Access to food, water, shelter, energy and jobs should guide population levels. The worlds population is still expected to add another billion people to feed, clothe and produce pollution. Humans are crowding out all other species of plants and animals. Education and birth control are key to reducing poverty and hunger. Having a child that you can not provide for yourself is cruel and irresponsible. We need solutions not just sympathy. Endless population growth is not sustainable on a finite planet. Every country needs to "TRY" to be more self sufficient. When there are not enough resources to sustain a population something has to give. Countries need to focus on quality of life for their citizens and not just quantity of life for cheap labor. Why import fossil fuels when wind and solar energy can be produced locally and solar energy can power electric vehicles. We need solutions not just sympathy.
Banning birth control is just irresponsible
Only Thanos can save the day.
It can be that many people do y'all know how many people have passed the last three years???
There's plenty of space on the earth, a lack of resources is the issue.
Congrats
Uh oh. don't tell Thanos.
How could 9 Billions or 10 or 11 or 12 or even 13....?!?
with not too much difficulty, these are just peddling f3ar and want to keep the serfs at a reasonable #
I think I read that the population will stabilize around 11 billion, it will not grow any more than that by 2100.
Let's cap it at 1 trillion 😅
If we ask "which ones shouldn't be here?" the answer is boringly predictable. "The other person" is the answer.
By the end of 2023 I predict that there will be a mass starvation in the far East and in Africa even first world Nations will have difficulty supplying foods
Because of the rich West's addiction to eating flesh. Were our world free of animal-eating for fun there would be enough food for everyone.
@@loveisall5520
you're either a cat or a mouse. Which one are you
We need to breed lots more little critters to eat. If animals weren’t meant to be eaten, then why are they made of meat? Yum!
@@loveisall5520 Ok little rabbit
@@loveisall5520 Yes, that is true. It takes much more land, water and other resources to raise animals for humans to eat than it does to raise plants that we can eat. If we were vegetarian we could feed everyone.
Lots are passing away how could this be according to ins companies sounding alarm.
With all the ice melting, you wonder why the sea levels haven’t risen?Average of 60% water per person. Average weight is about 137 pounds so 10.275 gallons per person means 82,200,000,000 billion gallons of water locked up in people. Trust me the water levels of the ocean won’t rise as we hit 10 and 15 and 20 billion and more.
Education and birth control are key to reducing poverty and hunger.
Having a child that you can not provide for yourself is cruel and irresponsible.
Men need to be more responsible for their children or get a vasectomy.
Too many people and too few resources. The world can not sustain 10 billion people in the future.
Quality of life should be more important than quantity of life. It will only make the Climate Crisis worse.
So her conclusion is that everything is ok, because indians Will be going to europe!? WTF
In her dreams they will
She is referring to North Indians ( young people ) migrating to South India ( ageing population).
Do they not have birth control in India? I'm genuinely curious.
What do you think?
@@ararune3734 I'm thinking no, but maybe there is some religious (the usual culprit) reason why?
@@donnewton7858 India's fertility rate is 2 ( 2 children per woman ) & is falling. It used to be 5 children in 1980s.
While calling Dharavi (1:30) a slum is correct, labeling it without context as "infamous" betrays underlying bias and/or ignorance of the reporter. Further, while the interviewed professor is not necessarily wrong in putting matters into perspective, she appears rather more interested in parroting political talking points than providing any fresh insights into the stated challenges.
Well the interviewer is equally political in asking the questions. India currently has a TFR of 2 ( ie. 2 children being born per family) & life expectancy is rising ( currently 72 & expected to clock 85 as in Europe). So you will see a rise in population for sometime. I don't think it will be more challange than it is today. Because by 2050, a large section of population will be old & retiring & the young will have more employment opportunities but taxes on the young will be more as in Europe.
I made a choice to never have children because the way we do things as a species are unsustainable. For one thing, there is huge inequality.
With nuclear. People need to stop being against nuclear and learn about it. Not all nuclear is the same.
Yes, nuclear could reduce the numbers 😛😅
Millions are also dying of starvation, so nature always finds a way to balance things out.
If that were true, human population would be steady 😂
Literally false lol Malthus was wrong about carrying capacity in the 1830s why would you even say that now in 2022.
Balance-out, most of time means long and horrible sufferings for many
WHERE?
@@RobinPhillips1957 all over man
Easy, most countries should get their population below sustainable levels. In India, to something in some tens of millions, not 1.4 billion. Oh, that's not easy? Well, maybe not easy, but quite necessary.
Well it working
Thanks India.. super cool. We can’t afford one kid so we will have five… pollution is also awesome lol.
India's national fertility rate is falling & has reached 2. Population will start shrinking by 2050.
@@alchemist7412 I sure hope so, but by 2050 India could well be 2 billion and that’s going to be bad.
@@ronaldmcboggled9855 India could hit 2 billion if the average life expectancy of adults rise to 100, which looks unlikely. There is falling birth rates coinciding with rising life expectancy, this is why it will take something like 2050 for the population to stabilize as it will be only then the old people start passing away at 80-85 like in Europe. The Indian population is so huge that even if you apply the brakes, it will still move for some time until it stops like a train. The current life expectancy is 71 & this is predicted to grow to 85 as in Europe by 2040-2050.
She is talking rubbish, and doesn’t think she has a population issue, there is many variances, a normal family does not access to running water.
Why don't you look at the list of the countries with the highest birth population in 2021.
Malthus was right
UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs said the world’s population is growing at its slowest pace since 1950
The UN said while the growth in population was indicative of advances in health and economic development 2:47
“Progress is not universal, throwing inequality into razor-sharp relief,” it said. “The same concerns and challenges raised 11 years ago remain or have worsened: Climate Change, violence, discrimination.”
Source: Al Jazeera
Journalist is asking questions about religion and interviewer is politically correct...
This is the worst news of this day .
In reality, not many people care. It would be a disaster if everyone over consumes limited resources.
Evolutions in Technology, Farming, Ranching, Irrigation, etc. the usual for over thousands of years!
They can't.
Soon India will become the most populated country, and China behind.
I am South Indian nah. People here have only 1 child especially milenials. Cost of living is high
The world population is projected to reach 8.5 billion in 2030, and to increase further to 9.7 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion by 2100. As with any type of projection, there is a degree of uncertainty surrounding these latest population projections. 1:11
More than half of global population growth between now and 2050 is expected to occur in Africa. The population of sub-Saharan Africa is projected to double by 2050.
By 2080, the world's population is expected to peak at 10.4 billion. Then there's a 50% chance that the population will plateau or begin to decrease by 2100
Sources : CNN; Nature; United Nations
People don't want to admit there are too many people in the world. With the world's population closing in on EIGHT BILLION, we must consider that on average, a person takes about 20,000 breaths per day. Every exhale has an average body temperature of 98.6 degrees F and contains 4.4% carbon dioxide. Human breathing does more to heat up the atmosphere and creates global warming.
The problem is the quantity, the problem is overconsumption thanks to capitalists and the 1% who are greedy and don't want to share.
That CO2 is good for the .plants and vegetation to feed the planet.
"Massive" over consumption comes from "massive" over population. 3rd World countries work to become 2nd World countries and 2nd World countries work to become 1st World countries. All of this work consumes energy and demands the expendature rate of natual resources at an unnatural rate.
Sustainably? 🤣 🤣 🤣 LMAO!!!
I am antinatalist.
well if we were resource efficient earth can provide enough for 12 billion people to live comfortably on this beautiful planet. Right now we are using over 1.8x earths worth of resources with only 8 billion people. This shows how inefficient we are and why we cause so much trouble. No one needs to be poor yet most of us are while the wealthy just carelessly live above the means of a human.
That is just kicking the environmental, global warming, and population problems can down the proverbial road. What I want to know is what is your plan when the planet reaches its limit of 12 billion people. Do you have one, or are do you plan, like most politicians, to simply not be around by then to worry about it???
Imagine ppl from India traveling to other main cities in the world, they'd think "Damn this is dead empty..."
India's population will shrink by 1/3rd by end of this century.
Indians already been there done that 🤷🏻♂️
Congratulations to everyone who helped us to reach the milestone..
😂
It's not the population that is the worry so much as the obscene inequality that exist and is increasing.
.. and the more those who currently have next to nothing then bring even more children on to the planet - is it any surprise the inequality is increasing? How is it "ok" for those who had fewer or even no children in order to not burden the planet and/or have a reasonable quality of life be required to fund those with less who want large families?
@@mpwaterhouse
Crony capitalist, Tax evaders, Illegal players, Dictators amass most of the wealth.
Those who have the means to the good opportunities manage to gather the wealth.
Countries who squeeze the expat laborers amass the wealth.
@@mg.f.9023 Yup and a good look at history over the past few thousand years we see the squeezing countries and the expat labor pool shifts around or even reverses.
Squirrel Stew is the answer
Pigeon pie is nice too 🤣
Soylent Green anyone?
Where was born the baby 8 billion?
Chulo, in Mexico
@@PHlophe no philipines
experts are so over
Take away oil
Lottery lottery . . . Winner winner who gets the chicken dinner
The answer..not at all..take your family and stuff and bring it to safety.
Some nations eat more than others...
Like in india.
While nations in Africa starve.
Makes no sense
“When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.” ✨✨✨
God created man. God created the earth. It's big enough. There is plenty of land.
Did he not create woman too??
@@deanosaur808 I did say man as also wo-man. I'm a senior, and back in my day the bible used the word man to signify human, not sex. That is something new added in this generation.
Isn't that what the coof jab addresses?
The more the merrier.
They can if lots of them live in grinding poverty.
its 40 years after the first baby from epruvete IVF was born, how did they calculate the timing and where is the IMF they are silent about monetary and other issues
*Let's gooo*
_8 billion is a milestone_ 🤯💪😆
How is this a good idea?
A single generation agreeing to only have 1 child, would cut the population in half. This would allow limited resources like oil would last for twice as long, and pollution would be cut in half. Diseases should also not spread as easily in less dense populations. Housing prices would also fall dramatically, which is at least good for the consumer. The negative effects would be that one generation would have to pay more tax for the older generation to get a reasonable pension, but with cheap housing prices, people could save up at least a decent sum of money for their retirement. With only half the population, we only have half the scientists and inventors, which would slow down human evolution. We would also just have half the engineers for bigger projects like railroads and that type of stuff, but that also means that this type of work would be plentiful, and its much less problematic to have some patience, than having a planet that turns into Venus because of some potential runaway greenhouse effect (if that stuff is actually a real problem. Im not a scientist, so it feels pretty ignorant to even question it)...
If you believe this you know absolutely nothing about the subject. Generational momentum means it takes 30 years for birthrate increase or decrease to have an effect.
In the U.S. and China they are on track for disaster has birthrate is far below the numbers needed to sustain society. In 15-30 years the entire country will collapse from lack of working age People.
@@darinherrick9224 Why did you immediately suspect i meant that it would lower population overnight? And what i said was just an oversimplified example. A more realistic approach would be to give people some tax benefits if they dont get more than 1 kid, and increase tax on people who get more than 2 kids. As long as nobody gets more than 2 kids, population would eventually go down just because some people dont get any kids...
BTW... I checked US population growth, and it is the lowest in 80 years - but still GROWING. Im sure you realize that there is a limit for how many people we can sustain on this planet, and here in Europe you mostly just find cities, mountainous/hilly areas, and some forested areas, that is not already being used as farmland - and it is not just Europe that has pretty much pushed its farming capacity to the max... The longer we wait until we take this seriously, the more people will have to participate in a "depopulation" campaign...
uh my teacher made me watch this :)
The problem is not the number, but the lack of infrastructure.
so how many trash in there?
Thanos was right🥴
It can’t simply, but global warming and the colonization of other planets will sort it out. 😢
Global Warming and Cooling are natural events!
@@RobinPhillips1957 Not with they’re exacerbated by our irresponsibility, sheep. 🤡
Stay delusional, though. 😂
If only the earth was flat. We could create multistorey flat earth!! 🤣🤣🤣
Basically what she says is: India itself cannot take the population, but no worries, just go to Europe.
europe wouldnt be around if the rest of the world wasnt holding their hands and giving them all of their resources. by giving i mean, europe is stealing everyone elses stuff. there's no way to dispute that historical fact. there is a reason you all arent known for manufacturing anything. its because you dont want to do your own work or make your own money. your culture is to lie, cheat, steal and genocide.
Maybe they shouldn't have taken that be fruitfu andl multiply jazz literally 😯