ever before: three people every second, more than 250,000 every day. At the beginning of

the decade (1991) the annual addition was 93 million; by the end (1998) it will approach

100 million. At this rate the world will have almost a billion more people (roughly the

population of China) by the year 2001.

Population and development are closely aligned. In Population: A Megalopolis is

Born, Melvyn Weslake sees these factors as being inextricably linked and having an

immeasurable impact on the future of this planet. He stated:

World Population will increase each year during the 1990's by the equivalent of

Mexico's. This growth, which is overwhelming in the South, poses a threat to the

But what does this dynamic rate of growth really mean? Can we visualize its

impact? What can be done to impede its rate of growth/or reduce the fallout? And what is

The Brundtland Commission (1987) suggests the population is about not just

numbers of people, but how those numbers relate to available resources. The Commission

That's in the long-term, in the short-term he projected that:

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