Population growth, challenge

There are serious questions about the effect of continued growth of the human population. We often focus on the matter of adequate food production, but large populations also affect the environment and our need for energy. Chemists can furnish the tools to help deal with the political and social questions. Some population growth occurs not because it is intentional, but because adequate methods for birth control are unavailable to people in poor countries. Thus one challenge for chemists is to develop better methods that would be safe, effective, and inexpensive and would enable all people to pursue their own decisions regarding population growth. 

Summarized the current energy challenges, such as carbon emissions, population growth, and cost, and presented opportunities to address these challenges, such as developing sustainable energy sources. 

The limitation of human population growth is among the greatest challenges of our time. To cope with this question, we do not lack the necessary technical means, and natural product chemistry has an important part in this Starting from an extract of yam root, the American chemist Russell Marker created the chemical basis for the development of hormonal contraceptives. Diosgenin was the starting material for the preparation of the first semi-synthetic steroid hormones (cf. Section 6.1). 

The United Nations and its agencies and organizations (UNEP, UNIDO, WHO) have undertaken practical actions to improve environmental protection in concert with industrialization progress. The challenge of reconciling the demands of population growth, the desire for continued industrial development, and the need to pr.er serve our environment can be met only by an approach that fosters development and sustains the environment. 

Geraldine Cox, EUROTECH I m going to be politically incorrect and ask about one of your assumptions, and that is on population growth because it really wasn t explicit. To me, population growth or the challenge it presents is going to be the overriding fact in all of this. 

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