Chapter 12: Earth in 2130 (2)
So, what about South Asia, which is also becoming "green"?
Why is it that China can be recognized globally when it becomes green, while South Asia is becoming green, which has caused huge concern in the academic community?
That's because South Asia has become "green" by cutting down primary forests in favor of increasing the area of cultivated land to increase the production of food crops. Hehe, do you see? It's all green, too, but the green approach is completely the opposite.
It is true that when the North American continent, which is the world's second largest granary, drastically reduces the production of grain crops, a huge hole has appeared in the grain demand of the world's existing population, and the pressure of this supplementary supply is pressed on the shoulders of China, the world's largest granary, and South Asia, the third largest granary.
However, on the premise of keeping the original cultivated land area unchanged, China has increased production and income per mu by improving scientific and technological means, so as to withstand more than half of the supply of North America's reduced production, so as not to cause famine to human beings on the earth.
The task of increasing the production and income of the remaining food crops naturally falls on the shoulders of Southeast Asia and South Asia, and South Asia has also done it with its own methods, and has also fed many people on the earth. Instead, South Asia has also turned green, and more than 80% of that greener area has come from the encroachment of forests to expand agricultural acreage.
Therefore, there is a fundamental difference between the "green" of the South Asian earth and the "green" of China.
So, what are scientists worried about?
Why, no other.
Due to the uncontrolled deforestation of South Asia to clear farmland, the climate of the South Asian subcontinent has changed dramatically, with floods and droughts alternating and the harsh climatic conditions significantly increasing the chance of erodation of farmland.
As a result, the newly cultivated land has become thinner and the utilization rate has been greatly reduced.
It's more than worth the loss, isn't it?
But ecologists predict that the same greening trend will continue globally, as in South Asia.
That's because, after the virus subsides, a large number of newborns are born every day on the earth, and a large number of people need to open their mouths every day, which means that the earth's human beings will continue to increase their demand for agriculture for a long time.
That's right.
More than 100 years after the virus invaded the earth, it was not until the beginning of the 22nd century that it slowly subsided. But after the virus subsided, the Earth's population stock soon experienced a high growth in a vengeful rebound, reaching the highest peak in human history.
You know, during the Black Death and the Great Famine in Europe in the 14th century, only 370 million people were left on the planet. But it was these 370 million people who had grown to 6 billion at the end of the 20th century and 8 billion at the beginning of the 21st century.
Then the earth's population stock in the 21st century has been fluctuating around the scale of 10 billion, but at the beginning of the 22nd century after the virus has completely subsided, the earth's human stock has been growing at a rapid rate of retaliation based on 10 billion, and is rapidly moving towards the total population stock of 15 billion.
Hehe, what is the concept of a total population stock of 15 billion people?
It is known that the stele that clearly states that the global population stock should be limited to 500 million, that is, the stele composed of six megaliths and engraved in 12 languages, is still located on the top of Mount Elbert, Georgia, at 34 degrees 13 minutes north latitude and 82 degrees 53 minutes west longitude.
So, what is the concept of 15 billion people compared to 500 million people engraved on stone tablets? Doesn't it mean that at least 96.66% of the Earth's population stock of 15 billion people must be wiped out in order to barely reach the target?
So, as high as 96.66% of the earth's human beings are not eligible to continue to live?
No, of course not?
Isn't there a saying among the Chinese that says it well? It's better to die than to live. But the question is: even if we survive, we need food crops to continue to feed human beings, don't we?
But if all these 15 billion people are "better to die than to live" and wait for death, then sooner or later the earth will be eaten.
Because after the virus began to invade the earth, the earth's natural resources began to be depleted day by day. In West Asia, for example, the once rich oil fields have long since ceased to produce swarthy oil, and the once rich mines have long since been unable to dig out any valuable minerals.
Don't?
On the Asian continent, mankind's unbridled and overexploited natural resources in West Asia has finally reduced this once fertile land to a barren land. When the barren land no longer produces the resources that can survive, when the long yellow sand floods the green space on which human beings depend for survival year after year, the holy wars that have been taking place in West Asia for many years will gradually cease.
Because human beings have realized that all the internal friction on the earth can no longer solve the survival needs of the earth's human population. Until then, mankind had to start thinking about the fate and future of the earth, and had to start thinking about the fate and future of mankind itself.
In the end, everyone in several schools began to look up at the starry sky, and they all began to look up to the sky
When the ground under your feet is no longer able to support human beings, then cast hope into the vast expanse of space. So a philosopher of the early 22nd century famously said: where you come from, you should go back.
As a result, among the major continents on the earth, among all countries and peoples, they have united and taken action. Human beings on Earth began to actively look at the vast expanse of outer space, and together they devoted themselves to the grand plan of exploring space resources and finding a habitable planet for human beings.
The interstellar age of the earth has come.