https://archive.md/epYI4
"The global population will peak at 8.6 billion in 2050 and decline to 7
billion by 2100 if current trends continue. That is the projection of a model
developed as part of an initiative from the Club of Rome non-profit
organisation, and it is 2 to 3 billion less in 2100 than other recent
forecasts.
This Earth4All model, created to explore which policies would deliver the most
good for the majority of people, also suggests that if the world invested in a
“Giant Leap” to reduce poverty and inequality, the world population would peak
at around 8.5 billion people in 2040 and decline to 6 billion by the end of the
century.
“Even if the numbers are not going to be as scary as some older forecasts, this
does not mean that we don’t have a problem,” says Beniamino Callegari at
Kristiania University College in Oslo, Norway, one of the authors of the
Earth4All report.
A big fall in the world’s population will help alleviate environmental
problems, but, by itself, won’t prevent us reaching tipping points where we
risk destabilising Earth’s life-support systems, says team member David Collste
at Stockholm University in Sweden.
“The population is not the only part,” says Collste. “It’s what people do, how
they do it and how much they do it.”"
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