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| Our population is growing at a massive rate, and it looks set to continue, which will bring a whole host of new problems, while making some current issues much harder to deal with. We still do not use our land in the best possible manner to provide food for our growing population, many people still live in terrible conditions, and we still do not know what to do with our waste. Lets hope that the 9.1bn people alive in 2050 can do much better than the 6.9bn of 2010, and considerably better than the 2.5bn of 1950. |
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| Within these statistics pages you can see your nations estimated population in 2010, 2015, 2020, and 2050. |
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| Statistics: United Nations Population Division |
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| One of the main reasons behind the World's massive population spurt of the past century, is our advancements in healthcare. By the standards of only 100 years ago, with the help of medicines and treatments, we are now prolonging life to unimaginable average lengths, and we have now really begun to take control of our body's systems. Lucrative financial investment from the business community - most notably pharmaceutical corporations - has also helped by attracting many great scientific minds to the field of Gerontology (the study of aging). |
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| Mumbai, a city of almost 20 million inhabitants, most of whom live in slums, is surrounded by sea water, but faces a daily struggle to gain access to the large amounts of fresh water which it's citizens need on a daily basis. This documentary charts the politics of this particular city's chronic water shortage issue, where people have learned to value their fresh water, in a way in which we westerners could not begin to appreciate. This film also gives us a look at some of the inequalities which the residents of Mumbai's sprawling metropolis must overcome in their daily lives. How is 3,000 million litres of water transferred into Mumbai each day? |
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| A documentary feature film about the unintended consequences of suburban sprawl. It illustrates the importance of altering the course of how we develop our nation's cities. It communicates the dangers of continuing to invest in the inefficient horizontal growth patterns of suburban communities, and details how they threaten to bankrupt the remaining wealth of our nation. It explores how the depletion of fossil fuels will impact this living arrangement, and investigates the viability of alternative energies that are currently available. |
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| This is film aims to address a critical question which we all tend to dodge throughout our lives; how long should we humans live? It centers around one of the most exciting scientists to emerge in recent years, Aubrey de Grey, a Cambridge-based computer technician turned Gerontologist, meaning someone who studies the social, psychological and biological aspects of aging. Aubrey has attracted much criticism for his unconventional approach and ideas, and he has sparked furious debate in the Scientific community about the idea of humans living until 500 or 1000. |
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