do anything that is close and you get use mine chief of the population and
development branch of the united nations population fund of the term
overpopulation first of all what what do we even mean when we talk about
overpopulation
is it a resource is question is it that just uh... or ron number of people on
earth question
well usually when we talk about your ordination with them out in a situation
in which
population is growing very fast
and then and there is the risk
that there is anything but a m imbalance between
beyond the number of people on the resources available
we use some of the stand out
three or four tickets at all when we have very high fertility empl palatial
where
growing very fast
now i think basically times change
i would have gotten seven now about over queer nation
so what what are the discussions now in our in other words
we see icy a conversation that summer trying to have when it comes to the
world population which strikes me is similar to the climate change debate
where there seems to be ninety nine percent of scientists believe that
uh... uh... human activities on earth are having an affect on climate and a
small percentage of scientists believe that's not the case i read most experts
seem to think that we do you have a population resources problem that's
coming but some individuals will say things like a you could fit the entire
world population in this state of rhode island so there's really no population
problem what's the truth of the question
well i think
the the true up the question is that
we kind of considered people just in terms of
one number
aren't we kind of us here people uh...
us
they are today
whether we didn't know what we have two days so an important part of the
population and the war
that is
congregated out on the market
um... they are the recent out uh... possibility for them too
to be really consumers in the same saga the
are we consider this bizarre concept
so obviously if we think in terms of the situation today
you connected to purplish in today
uh... but we need to think through things
facet of the population will compete at the increase
demanded the proliferation of increasing very
passes in the past
usa increasing
and some billion we'd be other thrown out to be a bit of a century
about to billions so we did too
or so to consider this number by the most important notice number
you saw what happened with
those people are
we respect the end of the population of the world will be able to let poverty
but people will be able to to uh... access to services into products
so it's clear that the weeping in pencil part more
alice unequal more
we need to consider those people are really consumers so they will produce
seattle they would produce a mission that will affect
uh... climate change
so what disillusioned about
and i think that the solution is linked to
what because that's what they were developments us that our policies are
more specifically hate green economy
in which we need to decrease their mother
uh... any chance that i'll produce for explain it
upar
of the protocol be producer the production
i think that he did it is the point
if we think that it's does come out though numbers you go to a lot about
this
obviously cuts too
but more importantly what those people what to do
was the happy possibility
to have a better quality of life
right you're alluding to is i guess uh... the the focus on just the number
of people that are on the planet
you know we talked about
food recently and there was some kind of report
in the u_s_ i don't remember if it's twenty five percent to thirty five
percent of fr
is just thrown out in other words it goes bad either before it people even
purchase it at supermarkets are ones people purchase it a huge amount of food
and that really we have so much hunger in this world but we don't have a lack
of
it's just a distribution problem and that seems to be connected to the
inequality you're talking about
yet that that's all about also
i think this is the reason
gifts last year
we uh... in india in the
are for the american tremendous change him
they have
a mission that they would do they could be any sharks all production of just
about easter beach erosion
if we think that yes we couldn't see increase production
lab various uh... the technology to do that uh... productivity is increasing in
some places by they send side we know
that uh...
ed
we kind of just got a production
without causing a defect of dot org o_ production in the environment
there is another issue when we talk about the potential week
wheat used to talk about the position of the global event on barstool
this important
but more important in some cases people present in some countries under some
areas of some countries
i have some country that will be facing the people of these they would have had
tourism growth
that we have this uh... capacity in terms of increase in the courts are
production
they have more poverty of solace capacity
of the people in them so being booked at www walk by
with more productive activities
so there are competing with the situation would be
exacerbated by high population growth which countries right now are at the top
of your list for being at risk for that
and many sub-saharan countries according to help there
that has to face
at historically and i i i i look at the cheek with his
now their adult and those countries i think that they would be arabic equal
teams
but i think in every country in which you have a corporation
that is growing
uh... you know more than two point five three percent
if this uh... it's a situation which uh... press and if you could be a jacket
forty counties
because for me
dust country i have to invest allowance
in in
in terms of the patient unprepared infrastructure institution
uh... you cannot do that justin from or organ anyone's jumping after a period of
time to meet more kind to the does investments right
the other thing i wanted to touch on and this really is specific to to population
and you talked about it a little bit within specific countries
a couple of people emailed me this question for you which is basically that
i'm kind of paraphrasing the question which is even though the ethnic
cleansing was
of the twentieth century ride over with do are there still acts of repression by
world governments to control population either eugenics are things along these
lines are these things taking place in some countries
i think when we talk about the politician dynamics population change
many people think about population consort
under date must be many and uh... actually many people that things that
this is a solution it is not what we think
obviously not what the government's let's agree their in nineteen eighty
four when day we become principle but said the better in cairo
in which he then we don t
the the the baseball races on the right bouchard those quality dot
enhanced and create new opportunities
for corporates for people for women to take this to a decision about a number
of children they have
abuses by difficulty with very helpful
for canada but also for a country with a look at the
salvageable isn't going to be as they are
how many people think that the solution
but i don't think weaken say that they suck
some kind of posted needed to do some population conference
uh...
some countries are experience some kind of policy in that area but basically
this is an assumption that these
chesina sleazy a south is not something that you can do
mailto
our second base
against iraqi orbit
human rights peer support that has been angry in india main conference of united
nations and indian companies have signed
moscow of confidence our investments
and then the other thing i want to touch on is
i'm not a vegetarian myself but we have a lot of vegetarians in the audience in
a popular question for you was
give your opinion of
not eating meat
could the human race not beating me to be a factor in the future of population
in resource dynamics on this planet
typing errors in the debates
beeper that brother chokes you up to
uh... will have an effect
is clear
uh... we know that the obviously the the the production up me
gas being
gaurantee
asap a m great-looking backing band so increase in the production three by this
is not just the only factory in some cases they must not the most important
about this line of the factors
i think uh...
some of the factors are related
do everything we do n_l_r_b_ light the way we dress
leeway we rack
to the way we tried it
we moved from one place the other
i want to do away with that we had with of the year with a cacao
every
activity that you know what time it probably go to practice
and stay who'd be undone or you know one data
run free
could be at the same
amount of that you know one person put it in a burial at midnight least
developed countries but yet
i think uh... it maybe you can videos because if you're ok it but if you look
at it
but any recent
uh... you know more than ten miles that it all out there dot somebody's
uh... that means i grew up or something but i'm so maybe it is in fact would be
very high gear
so i think it's is about many things
sodomy issue
is an issue but it's not fair to single it out above so many other things that
are also uh... producing emissions and so on
what i think is that
in this process what we need to go see there appears to be is that
there's not one single solution
but any single solution help
we've been speaking with us any loose munchies of the population and
development branch but the u_n_ population fund thank you so much
thank you