United Nations celebrate today in a way symbolic that humanity has already reached eight billion peoplea date that for its secretary general, António Guterres, deserves a reflection on the current state of the world and the crises it is going through.
And among those crises, Guterres points out in a statement, there is “one that is not usually headlined by the media: greed. We are living in a difficult moment, but it is not without hope.”
By mid-November, the world population will reach eight billion people, testifying to scientific advances and improvements in nutrition, public health and sanitation. However, as the human family increases, it also becomes more divided.”
adds Guterres.
Billions of people have serious difficulties; Hundreds of millions go hungry and even famine. There are unprecedented numbers of people on the move, looking for opportunity and trying to overcome debt and hardship, wars and climate disasters, he says.
And unless we reduce the yawning chasm between the haves and the have-nots, we are paving the way to a world of eight billion people dominated by tension and mistrust, crisis and conflict, predicts the UN chief in a lengthy Article.
The world population reached 7 billion in 2011 and is estimated to peak at 10.4 billion in 2100, taking into account that the pace of global population growth has been declining since the 1970s and fell below 1% for the first time. time in 2020, according to data provided by the UN.
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