suniljakhar
January 4th, 2010, 02:48 AM
Greetings to all of you for the new decade and new year 2010.
Happened to see this wonderful documentary on BBC recently by David Attenborough and thought to share it with you all. Not sure if this has already been posted on JL, but its worth to post it again even if it is.
Some of the key points mentioned in documentary are –
1. At the time of the circulation of this documentary (coudn't dig out when was it published first), the current population on Earth was 6.8 billion
2. By 2050, the total population would reach up to 9 billion
3. Great INDIA will surpass China’s population and we will become No 1 populous country in the world
4. Of the total Natural Resources if used fairly (measured in Global Hectare in this documentary, some kind of unit for measuring natural resources for consumption), each one of us is allocated 2 Global Hectare unit for consumption
5. However, there is much disparity for this consumption in Asian, European & American countries – Indians use 0.89 GH each, Chinese use 2.11 GH each, Africans use 1.37 GH each, Europeans use 4.45 GH each, Britons use 5.33 GH each and Americans use 9.42 GH each.
6. By the above calculation, if each one of us consume 1 GH of natural resources (an average Indian consumption), the mother Earth can sustain 15 billion population approx
7. If everyone starts consuming like Americans, Earth can only sustain 1 and half billion people
Where are we heading towards?
What are we doing to give back to society?
The documentary links can easily be found on YouTube or any other site; I am posting two links for reference here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JypyASU8Aik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hbkFP6k09E&feature=related
Happened to see this wonderful documentary on BBC recently by David Attenborough and thought to share it with you all. Not sure if this has already been posted on JL, but its worth to post it again even if it is.
Some of the key points mentioned in documentary are –
1. At the time of the circulation of this documentary (coudn't dig out when was it published first), the current population on Earth was 6.8 billion
2. By 2050, the total population would reach up to 9 billion
3. Great INDIA will surpass China’s population and we will become No 1 populous country in the world
4. Of the total Natural Resources if used fairly (measured in Global Hectare in this documentary, some kind of unit for measuring natural resources for consumption), each one of us is allocated 2 Global Hectare unit for consumption
5. However, there is much disparity for this consumption in Asian, European & American countries – Indians use 0.89 GH each, Chinese use 2.11 GH each, Africans use 1.37 GH each, Europeans use 4.45 GH each, Britons use 5.33 GH each and Americans use 9.42 GH each.
6. By the above calculation, if each one of us consume 1 GH of natural resources (an average Indian consumption), the mother Earth can sustain 15 billion population approx
7. If everyone starts consuming like Americans, Earth can only sustain 1 and half billion people
Where are we heading towards?
What are we doing to give back to society?
The documentary links can easily be found on YouTube or any other site; I am posting two links for reference here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JypyASU8Aik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hbkFP6k09E&feature=related