This means 14.000 deaths of children a day, 3.5 to 5 million deaths every
year.
However, there is a concern that our world won't be sustainable
because of overpopulation and expansion of consumption if we overcome the hunger
and poverty.
Then, I set several relevant questions and have sent them to
some people and organizations from whom we can expect positive answers.
(A) Isn't it quite possible that our society will not be sustainable if
overpopulation and expansion in consumption would occur when it becomes affluent
for all people and we get over the poverty and hunger?
(B) If it is, what is
the solution?
(C)What is an adequate world population where all people live
an affluent life, setting living in Denmark, or the U.S., or other suitable
countries as a standard?
Although it must relate to the matters including
natural resources depletion, environmental issues, development including space
exploitation, and advance in technology, I think we need to seek the answer.
This is a quite serious problem in the real world where more than 20,000
people are dying of hunger day by day.
I will post those answers in this
page if I can get some.
→Positive answer!
One possible solution is as follows:
(A)(B)By peacefully transitioning to an adequate population with the
help of women's empowerment and other things, such as "Reverse child
benefit(*1)"we can make our society sustainable
even if all people enjoy an affluent life, overcoming the poverty and hunger.
Moreover, overcoming hunger and poverty; and educating poor people will lead to the expansion of consumption (economic growth,) namely, the leveling up of the world economy-- these policies will be effective in protecting and fostering the current and potential human resources as both good labor forces and consumers.
(*1) "Reverse child benefit" is a benefit paid to a woman according to the number of children she has: the smaller the number of children, the more the benefit. This has a population control effect in heavily populated areas. It may sound rather rough, but I think it's a good idea
(C)According to information from Wikipedia (as of June 4, 2021), the world's optimum population is 1.5 to 2 billion people (*2)
(*2)
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%81%A9%E6%AD%A3%E4%BA%BA%E5%8F%A3
According to a study by Paul R. Ehrlich et al, the following were taken into
consideration. The calculation seemed to involve:
Adequate wealth and
resources for all people
Basic human rights for all
Protection of cultural
diversity
Allowances for intellectual, artistic, and technological creativity
Protection of biological diversity
My supplementary note: The calculation
in his paper is based on the total amount of energy that can be consumed divided
by the per capita consumption of developed countries (*3). It may be that the
introduction of clean energy such as hydrogen has not yet been calculated.
(*3) The calculation was as follows.
The marginal energy consumption is
9TW (Terawatt = Terra is the 12th power of 10). The marginal energy consumption
is 9TW (terawatt = terawatt is the 12th power of 10).
Realistically speaking,
we need to take into account a 50% error, 6TW, additionally considering a 100%
error, 4TW is the upper limit of energy consumption.
The average energy
consumption of a developed country in the 1990s was 7.5 KW (kilowatts), but with
modern technology, this can be reduced to 3 KW without compromising the standard
of living.
6TW, 4.5TW divided by 3KW = total energy consumption per
capita in developed countries = 2 billion, 1.5 billion
=the optimum world
population = 1.5 to 2 billion
Reference: Gretchen C. Daily, Anne H.
Ehrlich, and Paul R. Ehrlich.
Optimum Human Population Size Archived 2017-08-17 at the Wayback
Machine.. Population and Environment: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
Volume 15, Number 6, July 1994 01994 Human Sciences Press, Inc.
(*)The number of children under the age of 5
die of mulnutrition, and immune deficiency or infectious diseases related to
mulnurition amounts to 3.5 to 5 million every year. It means 1 death in every 5
seconds, 14.000 a day (From Web site of Doctors Without Borders)
https://www.msf.or.jp/landing/malnutrition_sp/ (translated by me)