With the explosion demographic and the emergence of new Giants economic, the impact of humanity on the environment increases by days. To such an extent that the exhaustion of certain means natural, renewable and non-renewable.
La demography is relentless: the more we are, the more pressure we put on our means natural. In a short time we will reach 7.000 million inhabitants ... every day 200.000 people are born that are added to the total of the población worldwide (counting births and deaths).
It is expected that in the year 2050 there will be 9.000 million inhabitants, and already in 2008 there was impact ecological of humanity on the planet, which has multiplied by two in the last 45 years, due to population growth and the increase in best before date individual.
If we take the year 1963 as a reference, the production industrial worldwide increased exceptionally, despite certain fluctuations due to the oil crisis and financial crises. The rate of crecimiento Over the last 25 years it has been 2,9% on an annual average (it has multiplied by two in 25 years). The growth rate per resident, however, it was slower because of the crecimiento demographic: only 1,3% per year (it has doubled in 55 years).
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