The population explosion: a challenging piece of knowledge

[Deathridesahorse]

Some bracing answers: interesting!

[spadlet]

Originally Posted by August

Those would be significant factors, I guess.

In which case it's wrong to say that individuals cannot do anything. The whole reason that we have such things in western cultures is because individuals demanded them and found ways to make them happen. In the past western cultures (certainly in the UK at any rate) used to value male children more than female, did not agree with the concept of birth control, used to have large families (I beleive there was a structure about the first son being trained to become lord of the manor, the second being sent into the army, and so on with any excess being sent into the clergy because that required the least sponsorship money, it was certainly something like that).

Change happens gradually and because a critical mass of people/resources develop that demand it. I agree that it won't happen overnight but disagree with your assertion that individuals cannot do anything.

[August]

Originally Posted by spadlet

Change happens gradually and because a critical mass of people/resources develop that demand it. I agree that it won't happen overnight but disagree with your assertion that individuals cannot do anything.

Okay. Family size is always a result of individual choice. Family planning ideas are always based on the notion that individual husbands and wives should choose to have less children. In this respect there is, of course, a lot of things that individuals can do. -

But when it comes to town planning, for example, it is a self-evident truth that administrative steps must be taken. In Nigeria, West Africa (where I conducted field research as a student back in the 1990s), what used to be villages have grown into small towns that have been growing and developing in a chaotic pattern, leading to serious problems like land erosion, big conflicts over scarce land resources, sanitation problems, fresh water problems. As a growing population of young adults come in need of building houses of their own, what is often the case is that local farmland is converted into residential areas; the consequence being that local food production goes down the drains. Land issues also has a way of turning into violence both of the physical and economic kind, and it is a problem that seems only to be escalating.

New ways of thinking about town development must be initiated and put in place by administrative organs of society. This is all too often not done. And it is leaving individual victims of poor planning with no other option than signing petitions, sending them to local administrators, and hope for the best. These individuals -- local residents of areas that are ravaged by all sorts of consequences of bad planning (and the fact that populations are often increasing more rapidly than most people, and administrators, can even begin to grasp) -- can really do no more than that. And this is THE CHALLENGE! The population explosion is transforming societies both on a local and national level. The consequences of this development must be taken much more seriously than is the case today.

[kiim]

i like your view good

[kiim]

I like your view about the population explosion.

[kiim]

The population explosion is being the major population in our world. It will be then going to affects the normal people's life. In a few years, the world has going to face many problems.
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[imp]

Originally Posted by kiim

The population explosion is being the major population in our world. It will be then going to affects the normal people's life. In a few years, the world has going to face many problems.
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KIIM
Social media marketing

Your grammar is poor.

[Karl]

Originally Posted by imp

Your grammar is poor.

That is because "it" was just trying to get the post count up to three, to qualify to post the spam link.

[Deathridesahorse]

Originally Posted by kiim

The population explosion is being the major population in our world. It will be then going to affects the normal people's life. In a few years, the world has going to face many problems.
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KIIM
Social media marketing

Thank god capitalism is here to save us all!!!

[Richard]

Originally Posted by August

But when it comes to town planning, for example, it is a self-evident truth that administrative steps must be taken. In Nigeria, West Africa (where I conducted field research as a student back in the 1990s), what used to be villages have grown into small towns that have been growing and developing in a chaotic pattern, leading to serious problems like land erosion, big conflicts over scarce land resources, sanitation problems, fresh water problems. As a growing population of young adults come in need of building houses of their own, what is often the case is that local farmland is converted into residential areas; the consequence being that local food production goes down the drains. Land issues also has a way of turning into violence both of the physical and economic kind, and it is a problem that seems only to be escalating.

New ways of thinking about town development must be initiated and put in place by administrative organs of society. This is all too often not done. And it is leaving individual victims of poor planning with no other option than signing petitions, sending them to local administrators, and hope for the best. These individuals -- local residents of areas that are ravaged by all sorts of consequences of bad planning (and the fact that populations are often increasing more rapidly than most people, and administrators, can even begin to grasp) -- can really do no more than that. And this is THE CHALLENGE! The population explosion is transforming societies both on a local and national level. The consequences of this development must be taken much more seriously than is the case today.

You're using Nigeria as an example, in which I would hazard a guess most problems arise because their political systems are generally ineffective and rife with corruption. You can't compare the planning process in one African nation with those of the developed West (to be fair I'm not sure you were trying to do this). In any case, I know from experience that the UK planning system is fairly comprehensive and transparent (hence why it can takes years or even decades to get anything built because of all the consultation that usually goes on).