Population and Sustainability

Learning about our planet and the amounts of people living here and being born every day is absolutely mind-boggling. In lecture, we recently finished presenting our group projects on Plan B 4.0 and our group presentation was on population and sustainability. I learned so much just from hearing what my group members had to say about their part of the project. One thing I, and the professor, thought was very interesting was about how our food supply in the world is increasing by ones (1,2,3,4,5) but the population is increasing exponentially (4,8,16,32). Soon there won’t be anything left for generations to come if we can’t somehow manage our food sources better or educate the planet on not only preventing unwanted pregnancies but how to live life more efficiently to help our planet last longer. We only have one earth and if we do not start caring more as an entire population then our resources and our earth will start depleting even faster than it is now. I found a website called the population and sustainability network, which informs us about the Importance for sustainability of population and consumption worldwide. The founders of the website are really hoping to reach out to the decision makers of the government, institutions and NGOs as well as Network members to create some kind of impact. This network also looks at “both sides of the coin.” Which are population growth and overconsumption of resources, which without a doubt go hand in hand.

The group of people who created this website are truly trying to create a difference. They want to reach out to regular citizens by informing them of their mission and by giving out just small facts to make people realize really how quickly we are damaging our planet.

Another interesting website that was included in our presentation was the website that shows a pretty accurate estimate of how the population in the world (Link attached below). To be completely honest, as an incoming freshman in college I really had no idea how large these numbers were and how much of a difference we really can and need to make on our planet, or even in our own cities to start. Taking colloquium may seem like a bunch of bologna in the first couple days but you really learn a lot of valuable realistic information that you need to know. Education is one of the first most important steps we can take to solve the majority of problems, and when it comes to our environment we definitely need to learn more. 

http://www.ibiblio.org/lunarbin/worldpop