Global Crisis 'to Strike by 2030'

BBC ^ | Christine McGourty

[nickcarraway]

Growing world population will cause a "perfect storm" of food, energy and water shortages by 2030, the UK government chief scientist has warned.

By 2030 the demand for resources will create a crisis with dire consequences, Prof John Beddington said.

Demand for food and energy will jump 50% by 2030 and for fresh water by 30%, as the population tops 8.3 billion, he told a conference in London.

Climate change will exacerbate matters in unpredictable ways, he added.

'Complacent'

"It's a perfect storm," Prof Beddington told the Sustainable Development UK 09 conference.

"There's not going to be a complete collapse, but things will start getting really worrying if we don't tackle these problems."

Prof Beddington said the looming crisis would match the current one in the banking sector.

"My main concern is what will happen internationally, there will be food and water shortages," he said.

"We're relatively fortunate in the UK; there may not be shortages here, but we can expect prices of food and energy to rise."

The United Nations Environment Programme predicts widespread water shortages across Africa, Europe and Asia by 2025.

[StonyMan451]

The reality is exactly the opposite (surprise!).

There is a Demographic Winter coming, and it ain't gonna be pretty. Of all the major western countries in the world, and I mean ALL of them, the United States has the highest fertility rate. It's 2.05. That's just below replacement level. ALL the others have fertility rates well below 2.0. In Russia they are already losing 1,000,000 people every year. All of Europe is in population decline.

Sure, there are countries like Paraguay and Burundi with higher fertility rates, but they don't have a large enough population to make up for all the large countries.

Check out this web site/documentary for details.

http://www.demographicwinter.com/index.html

The CIA lists the fertility rates for all the countries in the world. Here's the link:

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2127rank.html

[pappyone]

“He wants policy-makers in the European Commission to receive the same high level of scientific advice as the new US president, Barack Obama.”

Go ahead, pull the other one, it’s got bells on it.

[SQUID]

Well, I have an idea. I think all of those who think they are a burden to this earth should do their part in a mass suicide to lessen the burden on mother earth.

[adorno]

The experts in our society can predict events twenty years out but failed to see the stock market crash coming.

Those are the same kind of experts who have been predicting and warning us about global warming, while at the same time disregarding the facts about the last 10 years of global cooling, especially the last 2.

So, with all due respect to lawyers, "what do you call a thousand experts at the bottom of the ocean?".

[tumblindice]

(reassuring baritone voice)
“Cashcows! I mean, Americans ... uh, remain clam! (Peering at teleprompter)
“I mean `calm’. I am declaring war on the population exposion. I am appointing a Pop-Czar. That is all.
My media minions will now redirect your attention to your regularly scheduled programming, `Dancing With the Stars’.”
Your Alien Overlord,
Barack I

[VeniVidiVici]

Think I read this 30 years ago.

[mdk1960]

What, is God’s arm going to grow shorter by 2030? Nothing like sowing seeds of panic to give libs the Humpty Dumpties.

[RobRoy]

Yep. You hit the kernel of why I said politics is the problem.

People do fight over real estate less now. There is more to lose.

It’ll still happen though, from time to time, and it is only a matter of time before there is another “hot” world war.

[Gorzaloon]

Oh, this is nonsense.

Every time there is a Global Depression wars start, and we have Muslims with nuclear weapons now.

Populations will stabilize..

(Always look on the bright side of Life..)

[dforest]

Frankly, we are all gonna die before 2030 and it won’t be caused by climate change.

You can’t have a world full of evil kooks running things and think about a positive future for anyone anywhere.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Just like the agitator Paul R. Ehrlich, butterfly expert and professional hysteric of the 1960s, neither reasonableness nor technology can make a dent on their utter faith in their own brilliance and apocalyptic visions.

Ehrlich, butterfly expert and professional hysteric, is unfortunately named after Dr. Paul Ehrlich, who resides in the pantheon of good science and true humanitarianism, but instead reflects the exact opposite of good science.

Ehrlich, butterfly expert, is equally remembered as a science fraud, who almost a uniquely, is remembered for being absolutely, completely WRONG about every prediction he ever made.

Much like James R. Hansen, head of the Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) at NASA, another professional hysteric, Ehrlich fancied himself the high priest of world overpopulation studies, and the cure, which amounted to mandatory birth control and as much euthanasia as possible.

While the lyrics vary among these charlatans, the song remains the same. America is to blame. We must all do without. Suffering is the path to environmental righteousness. The world is doomed—DOOMED! Listen to me and do what I say or we are all DOOMED!

Science is not the appropriate venue for such people. Mental institutions are.

[GonzoGOP]

So, with all due respect to lawyers, "what do you call a thousand experts at the bottom of the ocean?".

That's just wrong and a completely invalid comparison. It is a well known fact that sharks won't eat lawyers out of professional courtesy. At least the experts would be doing their part to feed an endangered species.

[DM1]

[Publius6961]

Prof John Beddington?

Another "chief scientist" no one has heard of seeking his "Hansen" public admiration?

Does this doofus understand that we have been through at least 3 of these "doom and gloom" predictions in the last 50 years?

*Yawn*

[Thunder90]

GW ping...

[JamesA]

Yup, I’ll be 83, too old to participate. But I will be a God fearing gun totin dried up prune......maybe if I Live that long anyway.

[Red Boots]

I say, let's keep it down to 6 billion or less.

I say that anyone deciding arbitrarily how many people there should be, then enjoining others to join him in keeping it at that level carries the seeds of a dangerous control freak despot.

[Ditto]

Thomas Malthus reincarnated:

Growing world population will cause a "perfect storm" of food, energy and water shortages by 2030, the UK government chief scientist has warned.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[adorno]

I say that anyone deciding arbitrarily how many people there should be, then enjoining others to join him in keeping it at that level carries the seeds of a dangerous control freak despot.

Hey, dude (dudette?), what I said was more of a request for people to please control themselves. It wasn't meant as an order or as a despotic ruling. Get a grip!

BTW, did you read the rest of my post where I said that we (the world) might even be able to accommodate the many billions of other people? What I did say is that, though the world might be capable of handling 20 or 30 more billion people, it wasn't such a good idea. Nothing despotic about that!