[Coral-List] New paper about human overpopulation

[Alina Szmant]

“A drop below replacement fertility does not mean global population will immediately fall. It will likely take about 30 additional years, or roughly how long it takes for a new generation to start to reproduce, for the global death rate to exceed the birth rate. “

This is a critical point missed by too many complacent with current human numbers. Mother Earth urgently needs the number of humans trashing it in so many different ways, to decrease by about 50 % of those of us alive today. Not just maintain our numbers in order to continue our modern economic growth model.

Best estimates of how many humans Earth can sustain without destroying the rest of the Earth’s ecosystem (I am not talking about just housing and feeding humans, I am referring to everything NON-HUMAN that has been and is being lost ), is 4. 5 Billion people.


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From: Douglas Fenner <douglasfennertassi at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 7, 2024 3:22 AM
To: Alina Szmant <alina at cisme-instruments.com>
Cc: Coral-List at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
Subject: Re: [Coral-List] New paper about human overpopulation

Another new piece has a quite different viewpoint on human population.  Links are included to some of the original articles.  I agree that although these articles don't mention coral reefs, they are relevant, as it is one of the ultimate drivers of reef damage.

https://www.science.org/content/article/population-tipping-point-could-arrive-2030

Cheers, Doug

On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 4:11 AM Alina Szmant via Coral-List <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov<mailto:coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>> wrote:
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1339933/full

Coral reefs do not exist in a vacuum. They are just one of the many ecosystems on Earth being physically and chemically impacted by human activity. I am not trying re-initiate the 'numbers of people' vs 'levels of consumption' argument, because both are important to factoring human impact on ecosystems, including coral reefs. I just want to share a very recent review publication on the issue of overpopulation from Frontiers in Public Health, a journal not many of us regularly check, disseminated by Paul Ehrlich to his email list. Coral reefs are not mentioned in it, but the message is still relevant.

Happy Birthday Mike Risk.


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Dr. Alina M. Szmant, CEO
CISME Instruments LLC
210 Braxlo Lane,
Wilmington NC 28409 USA
AAUS Scientific Diving Lifetime Achievement Awardee
cell: (910)200-3913
EMAIL: alina at cisme-instruments.com<mailto:alina at cisme-instruments.com>

CISME IS NOW SOLD BY QUBIT SYSTEMS; https://qubitbiology.com/cisme/


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