Population growth accelerating climate change
From Finnish broadcasting company again
Population growth increasing greenhouse pollution.
As the population grows, the poor countries get richer and wealthy countries don't cut down their pollutions the increasing of greenhouse effect will continue says scientist Tim Dyson. He also believes that increase of carbon dioxide and other pollution gas will also make the climate get warmer faster.
Dyson mentions that even if the pollution per person stayed at the levels of year 2000 the pollution still would increase by 27% as the population grows by year 2050. By then the world's population will be 9 billion. Also, even if the average pollution per person decreased by 40 % in industrial countries, the effects would be nullified by the population growth in other countries. If pollution in third world countries doubled and stayed the same in industrial countries, the pollution would still be 90% more in year 2050 than in 2000.
The pollution gas amount per person are the worst in USA and Canada, being 20 times as much as in the south of Sahara in Africa. USA is responsible for 25% of the world's pollution gases, and has refused to take much action on it because economics. In third world countries the economical growth will make pollution emissions even worse.
Climate change has been predicted to increase the extreme weather like floods, droughts and storms. At the same time the population growth leads to situation where more and more people live on low, tightly populated coast areas that are the most sensitive to the extreme conditions.
(AFP)
Population growth increasing greenhouse pollution.
As the population grows, the poor countries get richer and wealthy countries don't cut down their pollutions the increasing of greenhouse effect will continue says scientist Tim Dyson. He also believes that increase of carbon dioxide and other pollution gas will also make the climate get warmer faster.
Dyson mentions that even if the pollution per person stayed at the levels of year 2000 the pollution still would increase by 27% as the population grows by year 2050. By then the world's population will be 9 billion. Also, even if the average pollution per person decreased by 40 % in industrial countries, the effects would be nullified by the population growth in other countries. If pollution in third world countries doubled and stayed the same in industrial countries, the pollution would still be 90% more in year 2050 than in 2000.
The pollution gas amount per person are the worst in USA and Canada, being 20 times as much as in the south of Sahara in Africa. USA is responsible for 25% of the world's pollution gases, and has refused to take much action on it because economics. In third world countries the economical growth will make pollution emissions even worse.
Climate change has been predicted to increase the extreme weather like floods, droughts and storms. At the same time the population growth leads to situation where more and more people live on low, tightly populated coast areas that are the most sensitive to the extreme conditions.
(AFP)
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