http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599...009760,00.html
Professor Guillebaud says that, as a general guideline, couples should produce no more than two offspring.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599...009760,00.html
Professor Guillebaud says that, as a general guideline, couples should produce no more than two offspring.
"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."
~Albert Camus
The British fertility rate is 1.7. The EU average is 1.5.
Meanwhile the African fertility rate is around 4 children per woman.
With so many people choosing to have only 1 child large families should not be discouraged.
Look at the US even with so many people having big families our fertility rate is still below 2.1 (replacement).
The world is over populated.
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......
Professor Guillebaud's wife Gwyneth is a nurse and works in a children's hospice: they have two sons and one daughter.
http://www.ecotimecapsule.com/jg-cv.html
that would be 3 kids.....
"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."
~Albert Camus
That is because the overall population curve is already begining to level as it approaches it's peak.
Baring calamity we should have 12 billion people on earth by 2050. Which is 4 times the population at the time of my birth.
We have FAR too many people on earth.
How we reconcile the facts that the poorest people are having the most children and the "succesful" 1st world nations are all suffering from negative population growth prospects is a question.
So far the answer has been selective immigration policies.
But there are FAR too many people.
Almost ALL of the worlds pressing problems begin with overpopulation.
"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."
~Albert Camus
Which person are you talking about? Because most people in the third woprld with 6 kids do an exemplary job of assuring survival of their kids, hence the mortality and population rates.
Education ios key as Psychoblues points out because there is a direct relationship between an adults level of education and the number of kids.
More education = fewer kids.
This is SO true that the industrialized world is not having enough children to maintain population equilibrium.
birth rate...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:B..._countries.PNG
mortality rate...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortality_rate
will you look at that.....
"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."
~Albert Camus
It's a matter of land, or better available land used for agriculture. Canada doesn't have much, making it over populated at our present rates of increase (both natural and immigration). Our prime areas are being overfarmed or sucked up by urban sprawl. Now, try and tell my this is only a Canadian phenomenon? The European population might be declining due to lower birth rates, but immigration still affects population growth. etc, etc.