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For many years, folks have worried about what the resource shortages would mean for humanity. The answer? Simply put, our planet is running out of resources. That's right—our world's finite supply of natural resources has begun to dwindle due to industrialization and technology, and experts predict it will result in a "resource crunch" within the next 40 years. This blog post details the top ten ways you can educate yourself about preserving our environment while also positively impacting your life by taking steps to minimize your environmental footprint. This report is written in light of the United Nations' new ten-year biennial World Population Prospects Report, which was released in October 2013. A little background: the report estimates when the world's population will peak and when it will begin to decline. The world's population is expected to reach seven billion by 2050, a number that many consider unsustainable. Interestingly, a number of countries have had positive population control policies in place for some time already, with China being one of them. In addition to analyzing three different scenarios that could exist based on four different assumptions about fertility rates and mortality rates, this report also made a clear distinction between median fertility rates and replacement levels for fertility across countries. When the population growth of a country is greater than its death rate, as is expected to be the case with many African nations over the next decade, we say the country's population has a high fertility rate. While this has potential positive implications for countries like Nigeria and Niger, which have had high fertility rates since the 1980s and will likely stabilize their populations by 2050, it also has potential negative implications for countries like Germany and China where fertility levels are not high enough to maintain their current populations. Germany's population is expected to drop by nine percent from 82.7 million people in 2013 to 71 million by 2050; China's population is expected to drop from 1.35 billion in 2013 to 1.2 billion by 2050. According to the report, the world's population is expected to peak at just over nine billion people by 2050. The rate of population increase will then begin to slow dramatically and even decrease after that point. The World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision is published by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. Of course, such a drop could be catastrophic for both developing and developed countries alike. For example, China's population has been declining since the 1980s. China was once seen as a poster child for how developing nations could lead their way out of poverty and into economic prosperity; however, its 1.3 billion inhabitants may now be too many people to feed. A report released in 2013 by the UN indicates that China's population will begin to decrease over the next few decades; it is predicted that the country's population will decrease by 22 million over the next 30 years. As a result, some Chinese researchers are beginning to advocate for policies similar to those enacted by India, which had negative population growth for many years. These researchers argue that government-backed policies to restrict births would be beneficial for China because they would help alleviate economic and environmental pressures on its people. Of course, these types of policies are incredibly controversial, especially in countries like China where people have fiercely protected their reproductive rights. cfa1e77820
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