Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! <\/i><\/p>\n
\u2014Isaiah 17:12<\/i><\/p>\n
4483<\/b> The Doubling Population<\/b><\/p>\n
It took from Creation to 1850 to reach 1 billion people. Since the population of the world in 1650 was an estimated 500 million, a doubling of world population took place in 200 years. <\/p>\n
But it took only 80 years for the next doubling, as the population reached 2 billion around 1930. <\/p>\n
In 1976, the population was over 4 billion\u2014a doubling in 46 years. By 1980, it reached 45 billion. And it is estimated that the doubling rate is every 35 years. <\/p>\n
4484<\/b> Four Billion People Now<\/b><\/p>\n
The world\u2019s population passed the 4.5-billion mark in early 1980, according to the population clock at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. <\/p>\n
The clock ticks away at the rate of about 2.2 persons a second, or about 190,000 a day. The rate is set by statistics the museum receives periodically from the Population Reference Bureau, a private agency that collects data from every available source. <\/p>\n
The world\u2019s population did not reach one billion until about 1850. The two-billion mark was reached in 1930 and the world grew to three billion in 1961. <\/p>\n
4485<\/b> Estimated Gains Per Day<\/b><\/p>\n
A United Nations estimate reports a net gain in the world population of 129,600 during every twenty-four-hour period. <\/p>\n
Marston Bates of the University of Michigan estimated that the number of people in the world grows by at least eighty every minute, about the equivalent of the 3,500,000 population of Chicago every month and by about forty-eight million a year. <\/p>\n
4486<\/b> How People Are Distributed On Earth<\/b><\/p>\n
According to the U.N. Demographic Yearbook released in 1977, the world\u2019s population is distributed on earth as follows:<\/p>\n
56.9% in Asia<\/p>\n
11.9% in Europe<\/p>\n
10.1% in Africa<\/p>\n
8.2% in Latin America<\/p>\n
6.4% in the Soviet Union<\/p>\n
6.0% in North America<\/p>\n
0.05% in Ocean Islands<\/p>\n
4487<\/b> A Continuous 2000-Story Building<\/b><\/p>\n
If the present rate growth continues for 900 years, there will be some 60,000,000,000,000,000 people on earth. This is 60 million billion people. Or 100 persons for each square inch of earth, including the land and sea. <\/p>\n
Such a large number might be housed in a continuous 2,000-story building covering our entire planet\u2014the upper 1,000 stories would simply contain the apparatus for running the gigantic unit. Half of the bottom 1,000 stories occupied by pipes, wires, and elevator shafts. This would leave 3 or 4 yards of floor space for each person. <\/p>\n
4488<\/b> Standing Room In Thousand Years<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cIn 1000 years there will be just about standing room for us,\u201d declared Sir Charles Darwin (grandson of Charles Darwin) at a Brown University convocation. Commenting on this prediction, Dr. Lee A. DuBridge, president of the California Institute of Technology, said: \u201cIf there is standing room only, maybe the birth rate will go down.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Providence Bulletin<\/i><\/p>\n
4489<\/b> Equalling Earth\u2019s Mass<\/b><\/p>\n
A scientist has predicted that, if the world\u2019s population grows at the current rate for seventy centuries, the mass of humanity will equal the total mass of the earth. <\/p>\n
4490<\/b> Another India In 20 Years<\/b><\/p>\n
New Delhi (UPI)\u2014By the year 2000, Indians will be living in kibbutz-style communes and eating foods like algae. That is the grim forecast issued by the 13-member panel of the National Committee of Science and Technology (NCST), a government body. <\/p>\n
India\u2019s present population is 573 million and is increasing by 13 million each year. <\/p>\n
\u201cEven if the present family planning program is a complete success, in 2000 our population would be 960 million people. We would have thus added a second India within two or three decades,\u201d the NCST warned. <\/p>\n
4491<\/b> The Largest Crowd<\/b><\/p>\n
The largest crowd of human beings ever assembled in one place happened during a Hindu feast in India on January 21, 1966. A total of 5,000,000 people assembled in an estimated area of over 700 acres. <\/p>\n
The Jacob\u2019s Formula for estimating the size of crowds, gives an allowance of area per person varying from 4 per square feet (tight) to 9\u00bd per square feet (loose). <\/p>\n
4492<\/b> Most Number Of Children<\/b><\/p>\n
The greatest number of children produced by a mother is 69, by the wife of Fyodor Vassilet, a peasant near Moscow, Russia. In 27 confinements, she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets. Most of her children attained their majority. <\/p>\n
That was in the 19th century. In the 20th century, the highest reported case is 32 children, born to Raimundo Carnauba and wife in Brazil. She was married at 13, and so far has 24 sons and 8 daughters. <\/p>\n
4493<\/b> Odds: One in 3 Billion<\/b><\/p>\n
In Sidney, Australia, John Struthers\u2019 wife gave birth to her fifth set of twins. A Sidney gynecologist said the odds against that many twins in one family are about three billion to one. The boy and girl, each weighing five pounds, brought the Struthers brood to fourteen children. Four arrived singly. <\/p>\n
4494<\/b> No Daughters In Four Generations<\/b><\/p>\n
One of the most remarkable single-sex families, those which produce only boys or only girls over long periods, was discovered in California a few years ago. In four consecutive generations it had produced 35 sons and no daughters, the head of the family, an only child, having had three sons, his grandfather 12 sons and his great-grandfather 19 sons. <\/p>\n
\u2014Selected<\/p>\n
4495<\/b> \u201cMind Your Business\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
From Cebu City in the Philippines comes this news. <\/p>\n
\u201cMind your own business,\u201d a father of eight told a family planning motivator, and then he brandished a bolo (knife) and ran after the man. <\/p>\n
For that close call, Jose B. Burgos, an employee of the Cebu Family Planning Council, is tendering his resignation. <\/p>\n
\u201cI did not ask food from you to feed my children,\u201d shouted the husband of eight children, and his wife is on the way to the ninth. <\/p>\n
4496<\/b> Czardines<\/b><\/p>\n
Teacher: \u201cWho can tell me what the former ruler of Russian was called?\u201d<\/p>\n
Class: \u201cCzar.\u201d<\/p>\n
Teacher: \u201cCorrect; and what was his wife called?\u201d<\/p>\n
Class: \u201cCzarina.\u201d<\/p>\n
Teacher: \u201cWhat were the Czar\u2019s children called?\u201d<\/p>\n
After a brief silence, a voice in the back of the classroom answered: \u201cCzardines!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Pastor\u2019s Manual<\/i><\/p>\n
SOME PROPOSED SOLUTIONS<\/p>\n
4497<\/b> Impossible Migration<\/b><\/p>\n
Some people think emigration to other planets is the solution to the population-explosion problem. But it would require passenger ships seating 100 persons leaving every minute just to stay even with the present population growth. <\/p>\n
\u2014Space World<\/i><\/p>\n
4498<\/b> Politics Of Marriages<\/b><\/p>\n
Couples who marry at an early age tend to have more children, while those who marry later in life obviously spend fewer child-bearing years together. <\/p>\n
Countries which are worried about over-or-under-population, therefore, have hit upon the politics of marriage as a solution to their population problems. <\/p>\n
The Soviet Union, for example, encourages early marriages and large families in an effort to boost its declining birth rate. Families with more than four children receive government grants and mothers of ten or more are declared \u201cMother-Heroines of the People,\u201d while bachelors must pay a discriminatory income tax of 6 percent. <\/p>\n
In China, on the other hand, where overpopulation is an acute social and economic problem, young people are actively encouraged to postponed marriage until age 27 or later. <\/p>\n
4499<\/b> Pregnancies by Rate of Intelligence<\/b><\/p>\n
A Church of England clergyman has suggested that married couples be licensed by the state to have children according to the level of their intelligence. Said the Reverend Stanley Owen, rector of Elmdon-with-Bickenhill: \u201cIt may sound drastic, but the position is such that if drastic measures are not taken, the result will be absolute murder.\u201d<\/p>\n
In Owen\u2019s view a normal couple should be licensed to have two children, a couple graded as inferior should be limited to one, and an exceptional couple could have three or four. Such rigid state birth control would prevent starvation in the year 2000, he says. <\/p>\n
\u2014J. D. Douglas<\/p>\n
4500<\/b> The Paper Pill<\/b><\/p>\n
London (AFP)\u2014A paper contraceptive pill will be manufactured in Britain for sale at home and abroad, the Daily Express<\/i> reported. <\/p>\n
The paper pill was invented in China. It looks something like a postage stamp. <\/p>\n
The paper said the pill would be exported to developing countries. It was said to be cheaper than the normal pill and allowed for a more accurate dosing of the hormones used in its preparation. <\/p>\n
4501<\/b> He Was Taking Pills<\/b><\/p>\n
Helbronn, West Germany (AFP)\u2014Six children in seven years despite the pill. A man in Helbronn now in his 50\u2019s was so incensed over this increase in his family that he complained to his doctor. <\/p>\n
\u201cModern medicine is no good,\u201d the man protested. One reason: the father had been taking the contraceptive pills instead of his wife. He didn\u2019t trust her to take them regularly, he told his doctor. <\/p>\n
4502<\/b> Zero Population Growth<\/b><\/p>\n
The world is talking about ZPG: Zero Population Growth as Essential. <\/p>\n
Men ask, \u201cWill not ZPG automatically produce ZEG: Zero Economic Growth\u2014Stagnation?\u201d<\/p>\n
4503<\/b> Growth Trends In The U.S. <\/b><\/p>\n
Washington, D. C. (EP)\u2014A report here said the United States faces the possibility of reaching \u201czero population growth\u201d within this century. The last five years have seen the largest decrease in births since such figures were first kept in 1850. <\/p>\n
Third development was announced by the Washington Center for Metropolitan Studies, which noted that a decline in births has replaced the post-World War II baby boom. There were 15.5 percent fewer children under five years of age in 1970 than in 1960. <\/p>\n
\u201cMore remarkable,\u201d the Center said, is the fact that this decrease coincides with the greatest increase in the number of people most capable of having children\u2014a 29 percent increase between 1960 and 1970 in the age fifteen to thirty-four category. <\/p>\n
In addition, there was in the sixties a 52 percent gain in the number of people between the ages of twenty and twenty-four, the most fertile age range, the Center observed. <\/p>\n
It predicted that the large war-baby generation may not produce children as abundantly as had been expected. The Center attributes this fact largely to such developments as the birth control pill, intrauterine devices, and changing attitudes toward family size. <\/p>\n
\u2014Gospel Herald<\/i><\/p>\n
4504<\/b> Japan\u2019s Two-Child Family<\/b><\/p>\n
Tokyo (AFP)\u2014Faced with an \u201cexplosive\u201d population, both domestic and global, the majority of Japanese no longer want the population of Japan to grow, according to a nationwide opinion poll. <\/p>\n
This became clear through the poll conducted by the Japanese daily Mainichi<\/i> with a total of 2,226 persons over 20 years of age interviewed across the country for three days. <\/p>\n
An overwhelming majority (70 percent) supported the two-child family, with two percent saying that even two are \u201ctoo many.\u201d<\/p>\n
4505<\/b> Bulgaria To Buy Babies<\/b><\/p>\n
Sofia, Bulgaria (AP)\u2014Faced with a labor shortage on population growth near zero, Bulgaria is trying to buy more babies. <\/p>\n
Only 11,000 new Bulgarians were born in 1972, making the official population total 8,601,000 a growth rate of less than one-eight of one percent. <\/p>\n
To stimulate births, the government this year increased cash payments and allowances for children. <\/p>\n
A family which brings three children into the world will get 850 leva ($515) in cash payments at the time of the birth, the biggest lump, 500 leva ($303) coming from the third child. The total of $515 is more than half the annual $943 average wage paid in Bulgaria. <\/p>\n
The family will also get monthly allowances totalling the equivalent of $49, same as the minimum monthly wage in Bulgaria. The largest allowance, $21, is for the third child. <\/p>\n
The communist leadership has also taken a series of other measures to make having children more attractive. <\/p>\n
\u2014Lower prices for children\u2019s clothing. <\/p>\n
\u2014A stricter abortion law allowing legal abortions only for women who have borne two children. <\/p>\n
\u2014Expansion of state nurseries where working mothers can leave children up to three years of age. <\/p>\n
\u2014More leave for pregnancy and birth. For a third child a working mother gets leave with full pay for eight months and a partial pay for another six. A woman can stay away from her job for up to three years after a birth without losing pension rights or salary level. <\/p>\n
4506<\/b> Epigram On Population Explosion<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 A father of 10 was asked why he had so many children. \u201cBecause,\u201d he said, \u201cwe never wanted the youngest one to be spoiled!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 From the Des Moines Register<\/i>: \u201cShe was reported in fair condition after giving birth to quintuplets Friday night. The father is a storkbroker.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 From a church notice in the York, Pa., Gazette and Daily<\/i>: \u201cFamily Night\u2014A Gift for the Largest Family Present. Sermon: \u201cThou Fool.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2022 A book published in Bombay, India, entitled Planned Families<\/i> contains the following publisher\u2019s warning: \u201cAny reproduction strictly forbidden without our written permission.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Noel Anthony<\/p>\n
\u2022 Mark Cordell, manager of the Loveland, Colo., Chamber of Commerce, was attending a discussion of the population explosion when he was called home. His wife had just given birth to a boy. <\/p>\n
\u2014UPI<\/i><\/p>\n
See also:<\/b> Births and Babies .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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