Seven Trillion People
Saturday, January 15th, 2011In 2011 population on the Earth will reach 7 trillion. Things happen one and a half year earlier than what The Unite State Census Bureau predicted. That means the populations of this world are increasing faster than we expect. It has been increased 75% within 36 years comparing with 4 trillion people in 1974.
The increasing populations require more jobs, more resources and more welfare. Its impacts to our society are tremendously. Unfortunately we hardly see our economists concern such a significant changes. A one hundred years old consumption theory is still guiding our economists and messing up our world. Acting like scientists they use an unchanged formula to deal with a changing world. For respecting human right we considered abortion is illegal. We attack one child policy that is performed in China. Some religions powers disallowed birth control.
Now we have seven trillion people waiting to be feed. Having the 75% in mind we should feel lucky that our unemployment rate is below 10%. In some countries of Europe the unemployment rate has reached almost 20%. In January 2011 a universe student burned himself to die in Tunisia. He protested policemen for they humiliating him when he had not job and sold vegetable in the street. His dead cause a big riot and result in a few dozen people died in the city. This story can happen in anyplace if people without jobs and cannot survive. A pirate from Somalia told the Western correspondent that they can not survive by catching fish. This world has spent huge money to fight with ships being kipnaped . The Pirate said actually 10% of those fund can solve their employment problem and nobody care about it.
Unemployment problem become serious today is not because the differenct of currency rate but because the increasing population on the Earth. There are 60% people in this world live in Asian who work hard and willing to get low paid. Free trade allows them to challenge Western’s job market. We believe we suppose to live in a better standars and we need high pay to cover it or we will make no productions. This kind of requirements put us in debt. We have no job and no money now. We should not care about consumption and GNP anymore. What we should worry is how to live well without a full time job or good pay job.
We need to find out a way to support seven trillion people without consume too much resources on earth. Developing agriculture is the best way we should do.There are a lot of people live in poverty today. One year after earthquake, there are still over one million people living in the streets of Heidi. In 2011 this world will short of grain seriously because Russia had fire, Canada and Australia had floods , South America was too dry and China was too cold. In the end of 2010 when the international rice price is $535 per ton price of rice in China had reached $1,200 per ton. Such a price range is higher than 2008 when 37 countries had riot to protect the high rice price. At that time people said,” we have no jobs, we have no future and now we have no food. We have to be violent for that is the only language our government know.”
All these years free economic theroy belives that if our market has enough freedom it can adjust itself automactically and run the economic into a right track such as provide jobs to us. This theory might work when this world had only one trillion population. It should be another story when this world has 7 trillion people. Governments from different countries should directly arrange and instruct people to produce food and shelters. High consumption and high GDP might create jobs. However, the process is too long and uncertain. Before creating jobs capitalists need to make profit. They will not reinvest every dollar they made in the market. The job positions they provide will be not enough and their payroll will be unable to maintain the high quality lives we expect.
This world is short of resource and jobs. If 7 trillion people living in the stander of industry country and consuming thing like American did resource on the Earth has to be increased 5 times. Seeking for profit in the process of industralizing is no longer practical. We need to go back to the agriculture society in some way and make living on planting. Giving up the concept of profit and directly get food and shelters from our land is the only way to feed seven trillion people. Our ancestors made living on our land in the last few thousand years. Our live will be better than them for we can have entertainment from T.V, internet and parties today.
feeding 7 trillion people is no longer easy for us. some people get profit might result in more people have no food. How to maintain decent live for mankind without consuming too much resources is the number one problem that we have to solve today. Keep one thing in mind that our Earth has to support seven trillion people but not one trillion people.

