I don't know if governments are obsessed with increasing the population but advancement in medecine since the beginning of 20th Century did.
Look at life expectancy and child death at early age.
Before the 20th century it was from 16 to 25 %, now in northern countries it is around 0.5 %.
In the Cree Nation before Hydro-Quebec developpments in the 1970, it was about 25% I have heard.
Life expectancy in Canada in year 1900 was 50 years now it's 82.96 years.
Canada First Nations population was about 125,000 in 1867. In 2023, it is 1 050 000, 624 220 metis and 70 540 Inuits.
The often see articles from the UN about how concerned they are about population decline. China has now lifted the one child per family rule, you would think in a country with 1.5 billion people the population decline would be the best thing for the country. Canada offers child care benefit to have kids, many other countries are offering money to young women to have kids. And at the same time they are concerned about the planet and carbon footprint? The two does not mix. The more humans there are, the more pollution there is. Humans are destroying natural habitat to construct more condos. Nature and vegetation removes carbon dioxide from the air and releases oxygen. Natural habitat also acts as a temperature moderator hence another reason for rising temperatures. Razes forests also greatly increases the risk for forest fires. True life expectancy has increased. But this population growth is not sustainable.
In 1804 there was only 1 billion people on the planet, it took one hundred years to reach 1.6 billion. But then by 1951, so in half the time it takes the planet to reach 2.5 billion people. By 1970 we reach 3.6 billion, by 2000 we reach 6.1 billion, now we are at 8.5 billion.
Population growth through history from 5000 BC to the current year (2024) for the entire population of the world
www.worldometers.info
That is very alarming. Everything in nature goes from unbalanced to an equilibrium. Currently there are too many humans. The one thing that represents the biggest threat to the planet and the one causing the most climate change are too many humans. It is simple math.. But governments are too greedy, to them making money is more important. And all of this climate change propaganda is a charade to make money just like Trudeau's carbon tax is. The whole system with regards to how pension is funded needs to change because the future looks bleak.
