The Human Population Tsunami - how it could be managed (Paperback)

Every two seconds five more babies are born than people die. That's about the population of London or New York every five weeks. The United Nations Charter of Human Rights requires that everyone have an adequate standard of living. This means that we must build the equivalent of a new London or New York every five weeks before we can start helping the 11/2 billion people already living in poverty. Madness. It can't be done. So what shall we do? THE HUMAN POPULATION TSUNAMI is about facts: facts and the deductions that can be drawn from them by logical thought. It is not about emotions or rules, though it looks at how both influence our thinking. The book's basic premise is that there are no mysteries - only things we don't yet understand. With this in mind, concepts like individuality, morality and immortality become surprisingly simple. We need to understand what they really are if we are to make rational decisions about our future. To overcome the mental barriers we throw up to protect ourselves against painful reality, this book describes how they evolved and what were their original survival values. To do this, it outlines the chain of events that led from Big Bang (if such an event ever occurred) to your consciousness as you read these lines. There is no evidence for a break in that sequence of physico-chemical changes. Such a notion gives confidence in proposing how we could manage the fast-approaching population tsunami. Though these measures are unacceptable to feelings and rule-books such as holy texts, they make sense when thought about clearly in the light of modern knowledge and understanding. During our children's lives, about a billion people will die. Either they can die full of years and under the rule of law or messily, many while still young, as governments collapse or go rogue and war-lords scramble for diminishing resources. Where reality comes to rest between these two extreme scenarios depends on the laws we persuade our politicians to pass now. We have no choice other than to act within the law; the difficulty lies in persuading people to pass laws that are effective. It's no good praying for some plague or benign dictator to spare us the responsibility of making harsh decisions. It is up to us now, however much our feelings hurt and the ancient texts disagree. Our first step is to start talking about the disaster facing us, and to push those conversations upwards to government - as is the way of English Common Law. The solution is simple: we change the purpose of punishment from correction to population reduction. That's awful; but it must also be lawful. All people are united by being of one genetic species and by sharing Planet Earth. Since we have begun to speciate on behavioural rather than genetic grounds, it will unite our behaviour if we can agree on a common purpose. This book argues tautly the case for aiming at preserving our understanding of the Earth rather than turning its fast-diminishing and fragile beauty into yet more human waste. Even though the solar system will pass away and the Universe eventually suffer heat-death, the Epilogue casts a shade of doubt on Keynes's pessimistic cry 'in long run we are all dead'. We really do need Pandora's mosquit

General

Imprint:	Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2013
First published:	September 2013
Authors:	Martin Jacoby
Dimensions:	203 x 133 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	296
ISBN-13:	978-1-4922-8268-6
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > General
LSN:	1-4922-8268-5
Barcode:	9781492282686

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