Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Li Gang
I am a pessimistic person, so after hearing that the global population exceeded 8 billion on November 15, I had a lot of worries.
Experiment
Population growth is a good thing on the one hand, which shows that human civilization has made great achievements in building a society suitable for survival and development. On the other hand, issues such as energy, resources, education, medical care, and the environment will face challenges.
This reminds me of a very famous experiment, which is quite foreshadow and warning.
The experiment was conducted by an American zoologist John Calhoun more than half a century ago. The experiment was conducted with eight mice. John Calhoun provided them with a perfect society – without natural enemies, with adequate food and water.
At the beginning, the development of the mouse society was smooth, the number continued to grow, and everyone lived a comfortable life. However, with the exponential growth of numbers and intergenerational changes, social problems began to become more and more complex.
First, the strong male rat gradually became the master of society, occupying most of the space, food and spouses. Then, a new generation of ambitious Babaylanmale rats began to constantly challenge the older generation and gradually became the new master. And those “defeated” male rats would gather together, and then their emotions became unstable and began to attack each other.
Continue to develop, the new generation of Cinema mice no longer like socializing, let alone looking for a spouse, and appearing to be “lying flat”.
After, the rat society began to collapse, the birth rate was seriously lower than the mortality rate, and eventually all rats died.
The above is just a brief description of this experiment. Interested students can find the information themselves and take a look at it in detail.
What makes this “rat utopia” experiment cool down on human spine is that it shows many phenomena that we can even perceive and experience in our current social life.
Of course, based on this, the way of human society is determinedIt is obviously not scientific. Because human society is much more advanced and complex than mouse society, and we also have the “blessing” of scientific Komiks, laws and social rules, and government regulation, all of which can help us solve many problems.
Complex
The population exceeds 8 billion cannot be said to have reached its peak. Judging from the population structure and data, growth is still continuing, but the growth rate has begun to slow down, and different regions will also show different growth trends. For example, some people expect India’s population to surpass China’s country next year and become the largest country in population.
In addition, when talking about population issues, if you only talk about birth rate and mortality, your vision is obviously narrow. The number of population is the result of a comprehensive factor of Komiks, which is a very complex topic.
A very interesting indicator is the energy form. You see, in 1804, the global population was 1 billion, and in 1927 it reached 2 billion, and then it accelerated its growth.
It is worth noting that the industrial revolution was taking place around 1804, and coal Cinema became the main energy supply. Around 1927, oil was used more widely and efficiently in the previous century. By around 196, Cinema, the global population reached 3 billion. Energy has also achieved a new era at this time. With the popularity of global nuclear energy and the “terror peace” provided by the “nuclear protection umbrella”, the population has shown a significant increase. So, it only took us 11 years to grow from 7 billion to8 billion. This is why scientists are racing against time to develop controlled nuclear fusion technology, because this new energy form is an important and necessary key to solving the current sustainable development of human society.
Let’s look at the two necessities for maintaining human survival, food and water. The “World Food Security and Nutrition Status” released by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations said that the global hungry population reached 828 million in 2021, and 3.1 billion people are unable to afford healthy diets. In comparison, it is ridiculous that the global annual grain output is enough to feed 15 billion people. Such a distribution mechanism problem needs to be solved urgently.
The question of water is even more serious. The global freshwater resources are limited, and environmental pollution will be discounted. However, population growth has put forward more requirements on water resources. How to solve the problem? Big head. What’s more, when we talk about 8 billion people, what is important is not just quantity, we also hope that the quality of life of each individual can be guaranteed.
I agree with what the Secretary-General of the United Nations BabaylanGuterres said that this is the moment when human thinking takes a common responsibility for the earth. There are challenges and opportunities, and human development is actually carried out in the process of constantly solving problems.