The state of nature

Paul Fusco wrote:The news is not good. Environmental concerns take a new hit almost every day.The loss of habitat due to human activities is worse than ever.
Human populations are increasing at ever increasing rates. Corporate greed seems to be at all an time high. The abuse of natural resources for short-term gains is rampant. Poaching is rapidly killing off a number of high profile irreplaceable species.
At what point do the leaders on this planet say enough is enough and begin the process of reparation? Do we have to lose elephants, lions, bees, glaciers, and whole animal classes before people wake up? Or maybe that just doesn't matter to way too many humans.

Paul

Paul Fusco wrote:...Human populations are increasing at ever increasing rates....

Population in the world is currently (2018-2019) growing at a rate of around 1.07% per year (down from 1.09% in 2018, 1.12% in 2017 and 1.14% in 2016). The current average population increase is estimated at 82 million people per year.
Annual growth rate reached its peak in the late 1960s, when it was at around 2%. The rate of increase has nearly halved since then, and will continue to decline in the coming years. It is estimated to reach 1% by 2023, less than 0.5% by 2052, and 0.25% in 2076 (a yearly addition of 27 million people to a population of 10.7 billion). In 2100, it should be only 0.09%, or an addition of only 10 million people to a total population of 11.2 billion.
World population will therefore continue to grow in the 21st century, but at a much slower rate compared to the recent past. World population has doubled (100% increase) in 40 years from 1959 (3 billion) to 1999 (6 billion). It is now estimated that it will take another nearly 40 years to increase by another 50% to become 9 billion by 2037.
The latest world population projections indicate that world population will reach 10 billion persons in the year 2055 and 11 billion in the year 2088.