The focus of World Population Day 2008 is family planning: PLAN YOUR FUTURE, PLAN YOUR FAMILY.
The slogan on the UNFPA site says Plan to beat poverty. Plan to gain equality. Plan to beat maternal death. Forty years after world leaders declared in 1968 that individuals have a basic human right to determine freely and responsibly the number and timing of their children, modern contraception remains out of reach for hundreds of millions of women, men and young people.
World Population Day is one of the significant dates that is featured on edna’s Calendar for Australian Schools.
A search of edna locates some useful classroom resources. In addition edna’s Global Education site identifies a number of useful resources.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has a Population Clock running that gives an estimate of the current resident population of Australia. It increments as you watch. As I look at it now, it tells me that Australia’s estimated population at this very moment is 21,358,434. That means that currently we account for 0.32 % only of the world population estimated at 6,708,743,815
This is a bit higher than the Poodwaddle Clock which also gives a break down by major areas, male and female, births and deaths etc. This page gives a range of world clocks to look at.
Another interesting site is GapMinder, which includes GapMinder World, where moving graphics show the development of countries according to various indicators, GapCast - all about energy and emissions, and Human Trends Development 2005 - interactive presentations related to this report. The World Income Distribution presentation focusses on the inequality of world wealth distribution.
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Some great links here. Check out http://www.breathingearth.net/
We used it in a classroom and tried to work out the amount of pollution that Australia makes for it’s tiny population. It’s pretty high.
as we all know th world population day is coming so we shold prevent people from getting children.This website is very good for children who study.
thank you
i am of the opinion that human beings find it dificult to submit their right until their compelled to do so.i therefore advocate strong legislation by the UNO that will be adapted into NATIONAL LAWS and will carry a ciminal liability on the number of children a parent caan have.this will ensure population control.
Dear Friends,
On World Population Day in 2008, could now be the time to acknowledge the threat to the family of humanity that could soon be posed by the current huge scale and anticipated growth of the human population on Earth?
Somehow, sooner rather than later, we have simply got to find reasonable and sensible ways to communicate openly with one another about real global challenges that are ominously looming before humanity, visible even now on the far horizon. These issues are supremely significant to human and environmental health as well as to life as we know it and the integrity of Earth, even in these early years of Century XXI. Our silence wastes precious time. Time appears to be something that we cannot afford to continue frittering away much longer while the human species unintentionally ravages the Earth.
Many too many so-called and self-proclaimed people with ‘expertise’ assure us that we simply need to do nothing except that which we are doing now; that we must “stay the course” of unbridled economic growth, increasingly conspicuous per-capita resource overconsumption and unregulated propagation of absolute global human population numbers.
Are people going to stand up, speak out loudly and clearly, to say that the “same ol’ business as usual” course of action may be nothing more or less than a “primrose path” to the future, at the end of which could be the inadvertent loss of life as we know it and an unintended ecological wreckage, the likes of which only the King of kings, Ozymandias has seen.
The idea that silence is regularly triumphant in moments like this one is anathema to me. People with clear vision, intellectual honesty, coherent minds and good scientific evidence have got speak up and, in so doing, overcome the silence.
Perhaps silence presents itself to the human community as the greatest of all dangers: a threat greater than 9.2 billion unrestained human consumers on Earth in 2050; greater still than environs being relentlessly polluted by the unrestricted expansion of large-scale industrialization activities; even greater than the reckless dissipation of Earth’s finite resources and the irreversible loss of biodiversity worldwide. Silence is not only deafening; it is also destructive of everything we are intending to do well.
If now is not the right time for open acknowledgement, then when will that time come? What possible value can be derived from more denial and delay? Who or what can we possibly be awaiting?
Human-induced global challenges loom before us here and now, I suppose. Then again, perhaps I am mistaken.
Sincerely,
Steve
Perhaps Chinas on child policy is not that bad after all, when the world population hit’s 10 Bill it start’s to be quite crowded here on planet earth.
please make analysis of the reasons how to save the female children. you know that infanticide are going higher and higher in the countries like India and china. Unless a solution is find out one day there will be no use in celebrating the world population day. All the growing factors are named after a women such as motherland, mother tongue, sister concern but one day there will be no meaning to all these words.
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