Planet Unrecognizable To Humans By 2050

Planet unrecognizable to humans by 2050. Planet Earth could be unrecognizable as the growing population competes for scarcer resources. Researchers are warning that by the 2050, Earth could be nothing like it is today.

John Bongaarts, demographer and vice president of the Policy Research Division at the Population Council, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2002. Throughout his career, he has examined the multitude of factors that affect fertility, mortality, and other human life statistics.

The United Nations has predicted the global population will reach seven billion this year, and climb to nine billion by 2050, “with almost all of the growth occurring in poor countries, particularly Africa and South Asia,” stated Bongaarts.

People tend to move up the food chain as their incomes rise, consuming more meat than they might have when they made less money, according to the experts. It takes around seven pounds (3.4 kilograms) of grain to produce a pound of meat, and around three to four pounds of grain to produce a pound of cheese or eggs, they told AFP. Population experts, meanwhile, called for more funding for family planning programs to help control the growth in the number of humans, especially in developing nations.

“For 20 years, there’s been very little investment in family planning, but there’s a return of interest now, partly because of the environmental factors like global warming and food prices,” said Bongaarts.

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