“This threshold is an opportunity to celebrate diversity and development, taking into account the shared responsibility of humanity towards the planet,” said UN Secretary -General Antonio Guterres in a statement.
The United Nations is population growth to the development of humanity, as people are more important thanks to the improvement of public health services, nutrition, personal hygiene and medicines.
The matter also comes as a fruit of high fertility rates, especially in the world’s poorest countries, most of which are in the sub -Saharan Africa, which exposes development goals to danger.
Population growth exacerbated the environmental repercussions of economic development.
But while some fear that the number of 8 billion people exceeds the potential of the planet, most experts indicate that the biggest problem lies in excessive consumption of resources by the wealthiest people..
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