The Earth’s Human Population- Growth and Poverty: Difference between revisions

When industrialisation increases, the consumption of goods, raw materials and energies increases too: the so-called '''consumption patterns '''change altogether. Even very numerous populations in developing countries presently consume a fraction of the energies and raw materials and produce a fraction of the waste and greenhouse gases compared to industrialised economically advanced countries. The consumption patterns of the populations of those countries are very much different from economically developed countries both in quantitative and qualitative terms. Changing consumption patterns in those countries towards consumerism would mean drastically (however gradually) augmented demands on the environment, whether as a source of raw materials or an assimilation and detoxication mechanism for human emissions and waste. Any vision of an advanced industrialised world with a stable population will have to take this problem into account, like it or not. However, the primary problem of the future will be how and with what the increasing human population will feed itself.