The Real Issues About The World's Population Are Not Numbers But About Equity, Resources And Politics.

The real issues about the world's population are not numbers but about equity, resources and politics.

According to a report by the Population Reference Bureau, this year the Earth will reach 7000 million inhabitants. But how much space would occupy 7000 million people on Earth? 7000 million people standing side by side, would cover no more than the city of Los Angeles, tells us the magazineNational Geographic. So, do we have an overpopulation problem or is not more than mismanagement of our resources? Many of our natural resources and are essential for life today, are being consumed at speeds unthinkable today because the companies only seeking personal gain, without considering the possible consequences this may entail. To better understand the problem we go to define the resourceas “means of subsistence", so that natural resources can be considered a mineable ore body or a raft of oil, as a forest or breathable air (Vilches and Gil Pérez, 2003). To a large extent this idea we have of resource has changed over time, but it has always been an idea the limitation, since it is something valuable to meet needs but is not available to everyone equally, it have carried outnumerous summits with intended to address this issue. The first of these summits was held in Rio in 1992 by the United Nations and was called "Earth Summit", explaining in this that the consumption of certain vital resources was more than 25% chance of recovery of the Earth, and five years later at the Rio +5 Forum, was alarmed about the increase of the process so that the consume already exceeded 33%chance of recovery, is therefore faced with a rapid depletion of resources and could even lead to our species collapse if consumption continues. A clear example is the depletion of fossil energy resources such as oil. As we know oil is a nonrenewable resource, it means that you cannot be formed in a short period of time for human history since its formation takes millions of years, and the currentrate of consumption is exhausted much earlier than desired , although it is very difficult to estimate exactly when will exhausted, the answer seems to be in the estimated reserves and the pace of global consumption, while this is subject to changes as they are still looking for new sources and in some wells that were abandoned were is returning to extract oil, but its extraction is becoming moreexpensive and therefore is more expensive for the consumer. But despite this rise progressive society seems intent not to make any changes as we continue to build vehicles that burn oil regardless of exhaustion these forecasts and much less environmental problems caused by their combustion are the main cause the so-called "Climate Change.” Table1: World oil consumption But oil is not the onlyresource that is running out for most of the world population is even

more drastic the process of blighted and marked decrease in resources hydropic. Although water is commonly considered a renewable resource because water is pursuing a closed cycle appeared to have no limit, it is true that in recent years the volume of water used is overcoming the water that is replenished during the cycle,causing a serious problem, since although the water is the most abundant substance on the planet only 2.53% is freshwater. As we said before, over the past years there have been numerous summits, including addressing this issue. One was the Second World Water Forum was held in Holland where it was found that the Agriculture and Livestock, especially in developed countries consume between 70 and 80% offresh water used in the world, since according to Riechman says "to produce a single egg from a factory farm needed 180 liters of water " (Riechman, 2003). With this consumption of water has led to exploitation for example, reducing groundwater levels dramatically, and exploiting them and causing damage that may become irreversible. Besides the problem of water consumption comes not only...