RE: Could better family planning help slow the effects of climate change?
In my book, "world without war, made possible by empowered individuals", I touch on population growth as a major environmental risk factor. At amazon.com you can look and search inside.
Population growth also effects the rapidly shrinking arable land available per head of population. Here is a quote from my book:
Arable land is limited and, apart from the oceans, it is the only source of food production. Of this planet?s 148 million square kilometres of land, approximately 31 million are arable; however, arable land is being lost at the rate of over 100,000 km? per year as a result of urban sprawl and drought. If this is seen against a growing population, it becomes clear that arable land per head of the world?s population is reducing at an alarming rate. While it was a mere 0.51 ha per person in the year 2000, it will become about 0.34 ha per caput in 2050, a reduction of 33 per cent or one third. If scientific predictions of rising oceanic water levels resulting from the melting of Arctic and Antarctic ice eventuate, then available arable land will shrink even more as a result of flooded deltas and low-lying islands being submerged.
