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Plague or world war no threat to 10bn population
A plAnet-wide conflict that claimed as many lives as the first two world wars combined would hardly make any difference to the world’s exploding population, a study claims. population growth is so out of control that even stringent restrictions on childbirth, disastrous pandemics or a third world war would not make it manageable, researchers believe. Rather than reducing the number of people on the planet, cutting the consumption of natural resources and enhanced recycling would have a better chance of achieving effective sustainability gains in the next 85 years, they said. professor Barry Brook, who co-led the study at the University of Adelaide, Australia, said: ‘we were surprised that a fiveyear ww3 scenario, mimicking the same proportion of people killed in the first and second world wars combined, barely registered a blip on the human population trajectory this century.’ the Second world war claimed between 50million and 85million military and civilian lives, according to
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various estimates, making it the most lethal conflict by absolute numbers of dead in human history. More than 37million people are thought to have died in the First world war. the scientists used a computer model based on demographic data from the world Health Organisation and United States Census Bureau to investigate different population reduction scenarios. they found that under current conditions of fertility, mortality and mother’s average age at first childbirth, the population was likely to grow to 10.4billion by 2100. Climate change, war, reduced fertility, and increased maternal age altered this only slightly. A devastating global pandemic that killed 2billion people was only projected to reduce population size to 8.4billion, while 6billion deaths brought it down to 5.1billion. the findings are published in the journal proceedings Of the national Academy Of Sciences.
‘Answer is to cut use of resources’
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SWEET TASTE OF VICTORY: Kenya’s Esther nj Wanjiru Macharia and Eliud Too celebrate after their double win in the 35th Dublin City Marathon. More than 14,000 people from 47 countries took part in yesterday’s race, the 35th running of the event picture: pA