Dailymotion - #Zweckkind
https://x.com/Zweckkind
ABONNIEREN:
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#Überbevölkerung
Wer entschärft die #Bevölkerungsbombe?
#AbenteuerForschung, ZDF, Juli 2009
Bis zum Jahr 2050 wird die #Weltbevölkerung auf über neun Milliarden Menschen ansteigen. Noch nie hat sich die Bevölkerung so rasant vermehrt, noch nie zuvor haben so viele Menschen auf unserem Planeten gelebt. Laufen wir Gefahr, die Belastungsgrenze der Erde zu überschreiten? Und: Welche Möglichkeiten haben wir, Einfluss zu nehmen?
Vor 2.000 Jahren lebten 300 Millionen Menschen auf der Erde, und es dauerte 1.600 Jahre, bis sich diese Zahl verdoppelte; heute sind dafür nur 50 Jahre nötig. Seit Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts nimmt die Zahl der Weltbevölkerung und die Geschwindigkeit, mit der sie wächst, rapide zu. Schätzungen zufolge werden im Jahr 2050 über neun Milliarden Menschen leben.
Ein Katastrophenszenario
Eine steigende Einwohnerzahl bedeutet steigenden Platz-, Energie- und Nahrungsbedarf und das bei gleichzeitig immer knapper werdenden Ressourcen, steigender Umweltbelastung und wachsender Klimaverschlechterung. Die Brisanz ist seit Langem bekannt. Es ist jedoch längst zu spät, diese Bevölkerungsentwicklung noch zu stoppen. Selbst wenn der Mensch planend eingreift, verlaufen die Prozesse sehr träge. Das Bevölkerungswachstum unterliegt einer Eigendynamik. Es gibt Steuerungsmechanismen in der Natur, die den Kollaps einer Population verhindern. Die Biologie kennt nur in Ausnahmefällen oder bei niederen Lebensformen ungebremstes Wachstum bis zur völligen Erschöpfung des Lebensraumes.
Sowohl im Tierreich als auch bei uns Menschen lassen sich Regulationsstrategien ausmachen, die einer Überbevölkerung und deren Folgen vorbeugen. Lässt sich daraus vielleicht eine Lösung des Problems der Überbevölkerung ableiten?
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Scharfe Kritik von Fachkollegen an Pop-Physiker Lesch:
https://www.jocelyne-lopez.de/blog/2008/01/pop-physiker-prof-harald-lesch-unter-scharfer-kritik/
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Menschen = dumme, böse, glaubens- und triebgesteuerte Marionetten
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnF9EXZfeoY
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Menschen-Population - max. 1 Mrd. (James Lovelock)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBUvZDSY2D0
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World Human-Overpopulation
Population Connection - "World Human-Overpopulation"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_9SutNmfFk
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Save the Planet - Kill Yourself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft_N-skpXRs
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Der Mensch - das Krebsgeschwür der Erde (Matrix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fu_eBNeL-8
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Du bist nicht der Mittelpunkt der Welt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKTu6B4Rgek
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Die Welt von Morgen
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7ufdh1
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https://x.com/Zweckkind
ABONNIEREN:
https://www.dailymotion.com/dm_1d76a893fe4f474eaf4999b7c0d81f25
#Überbevölkerung
Wer entschärft die #Bevölkerungsbombe?
#AbenteuerForschung, ZDF, Juli 2009
Bis zum Jahr 2050 wird die #Weltbevölkerung auf über neun Milliarden Menschen ansteigen. Noch nie hat sich die Bevölkerung so rasant vermehrt, noch nie zuvor haben so viele Menschen auf unserem Planeten gelebt. Laufen wir Gefahr, die Belastungsgrenze der Erde zu überschreiten? Und: Welche Möglichkeiten haben wir, Einfluss zu nehmen?
Vor 2.000 Jahren lebten 300 Millionen Menschen auf der Erde, und es dauerte 1.600 Jahre, bis sich diese Zahl verdoppelte; heute sind dafür nur 50 Jahre nötig. Seit Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts nimmt die Zahl der Weltbevölkerung und die Geschwindigkeit, mit der sie wächst, rapide zu. Schätzungen zufolge werden im Jahr 2050 über neun Milliarden Menschen leben.
Ein Katastrophenszenario
Eine steigende Einwohnerzahl bedeutet steigenden Platz-, Energie- und Nahrungsbedarf und das bei gleichzeitig immer knapper werdenden Ressourcen, steigender Umweltbelastung und wachsender Klimaverschlechterung. Die Brisanz ist seit Langem bekannt. Es ist jedoch längst zu spät, diese Bevölkerungsentwicklung noch zu stoppen. Selbst wenn der Mensch planend eingreift, verlaufen die Prozesse sehr träge. Das Bevölkerungswachstum unterliegt einer Eigendynamik. Es gibt Steuerungsmechanismen in der Natur, die den Kollaps einer Population verhindern. Die Biologie kennt nur in Ausnahmefällen oder bei niederen Lebensformen ungebremstes Wachstum bis zur völligen Erschöpfung des Lebensraumes.
Sowohl im Tierreich als auch bei uns Menschen lassen sich Regulationsstrategien ausmachen, die einer Überbevölkerung und deren Folgen vorbeugen. Lässt sich daraus vielleicht eine Lösung des Problems der Überbevölkerung ableiten?
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Scharfe Kritik von Fachkollegen an Pop-Physiker Lesch:
https://www.jocelyne-lopez.de/blog/2008/01/pop-physiker-prof-harald-lesch-unter-scharfer-kritik/
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Menschen = dumme, böse, glaubens- und triebgesteuerte Marionetten
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnF9EXZfeoY
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Menschen-Population - max. 1 Mrd. (James Lovelock)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBUvZDSY2D0
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World Human-Overpopulation
Population Connection - "World Human-Overpopulation"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_9SutNmfFk
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Save the Planet - Kill Yourself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft_N-skpXRs
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Der Mensch - das Krebsgeschwür der Erde (Matrix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fu_eBNeL-8
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Du bist nicht der Mittelpunkt der Welt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKTu6B4Rgek
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Die Welt von Morgen
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7ufdh1
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00:22Adventure Research
00:31Welcome to Adventure Research
00:34We are all people of the 21st century.
00:37We already know everything.
00:39Thanks to television, the internet, newspapers, and radio, we are informed about everything.
00:43and nothing can really shake us anymore.
00:47We are told so many stories, perhaps too many stories, but so many stories nonetheless.
00:50that we can only chuckle at some things and simply take note of most of them.
00:55And sometimes we are affected, but on the whole it passes us by.
01:00And then, there are the stories where you think, this can't be true.
01:04That can't be true. Absolutely not. It must be made up.
01:08And I didn't know that before. I'm telling you quite honestly.
01:11It's so insane. Look at it. Look at it.
01:18The Rub al-Khali desert in Saudi Arabia.
01:22It is one of the driest regions on Earth.
01:25But it is precisely here that people are working on making a dream a reality.
01:31Milk from the desert. From cows bred in Germany.
01:36Air conditioners cool the air from 50 degrees to a more tolerable 26 degrees for the animals.
01:42These highly bred foreign species have become indispensable.
01:46The aim is to supply the rapidly growing population with milk and meat.
01:50Traditional camel herds cannot meet the demand.
01:55A cow gives up to 70 liters of milk per day.
01:58More than twice as much as in Germany.
02:00Result of further breeding with genetically selected seeds from the USA.
02:06With 32,000 cows, this is one of the largest dairy farms in the world.
02:12Producing one liter of milk requires 2500 liters of water.
02:17Worldwide, the average is only 1000 liters.
02:20The artificial irrigation of the fields alone consumes 15 million liters per day.
02:26Fed by non-renewable, fossil groundwater.
02:31The groundwater will be depleted in less than 40 years.
02:36Saudi Arabia will then have to feed twice as many inhabitants as it does today.
02:44Shanghai.
02:46The Chinese metropolis has a population of 15 million.
02:50The city was declared a special economic zone in 1990.
02:54and therefore interesting for foreign investors.
02:57The earning potential is tempting.
02:59Consumer behavior has changed with increased prosperity.
03:03A development with dramatic consequences.
03:07Western living standards have become a model.
03:10Meat consumption in the country has more than doubled in the last 10 years.
03:16More and more pork is being imported.
03:18Last year, for the first time, the figure exceeded 100,000 tons.
03:24China has to feed 20 percent of the world's population.
03:28However, the country only has 7 percent of the arable land.
03:32A precarious situation.
03:361.3 billion Chinese people need to be fed.
03:39The trend is rising.
03:41Using conventional farming methods, the country cannot keep pace with demand on its own.
03:48Even the most intensive land use does not yield enough.
03:52And the situation is getting progressively worse.
03:55Unrestrained exploitation and climate change lead to soil erosion and land loss.
04:01The vast sand desert in the north of the country continues to encroach.
04:09More than a third of the country is threatened by this.
04:17Even the capital city of Beijing is in danger of sinking into the sand.
04:28From a Chinese perspective, it is therefore only logical to look for new farmland in other countries.
04:34The search focuses on extensive, still pristine or sparsely populated areas of the world.
04:45And China has found what it was looking for.
04:48In the rainforests of South America and Southeast Asia, as well as in the tropics of Africa.
04:54Where no resistance is expected from landowners and an agreement is reached at the state level,
05:00Long-term lease agreements are concluded.
05:06Just like in Cameroon in Central Africa, once a Portuguese, German and French colony.
05:14The new rulers come from the Middle Kingdom.
05:19Jianjun Wang has been in Cameroon for a year.
05:22The farm he manages is situated on fertile soil.
05:25The climate is ideal for growing rice, corn and soybeans.
05:32Wang is the boss of 20 employees.
05:36Locals who do all the fieldwork.
05:39This also includes the application of pesticides.
05:43Her salary is the equivalent of 40 euros per month.
05:52The entire annual harvest from the 10,000-hectare farm goes to China.
06:01Besides Cameroon, China has secured land in Uganda, Tanzania, Mexico, Russia, the Philippines and Australia.
06:10And China is not an isolated case.
06:13The largest agricultural colonialists include South Korea, Japan, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
06:21With a total area of 8 million hectares.
06:28Globalized agriculture is now commonplace.
06:32Because more and more countries can no longer guarantee the food supply for their populations any other way.
06:37But the expanding agricultural colonialism is explosive.
06:44Because it is precisely the poorest countries that are being robbed of the basis for self-sufficiency.
06:51Even today, some are dependent on aid deliveries.
06:54And in 20 years, they will be among the most populous countries on Earth.
07:08In Mexico and Madagascar, there have already been fierce demonstrations because of the new colonialism.
07:14Four people died in uprisings in Haiti.
07:18The attempt by some states to secure their own future at the expense of the weaker members of society is proving to be a dangerous misguided path.
07:26Well, that's the situation.
07:28The population of Homo sapiens has never increased as rapidly as it is today.
07:32For the first time, people are experiencing a doubling of the world's population during their lifetime.
07:38So, the increase in the sheer number of people multiplied by the increased entitlement of the individual,
07:44This produces the unsecured bomb of overpopulation.
07:47And while we worry about minor crises, we overlook the elephant in the room.
07:54The biggest problem on the planet is the growing world population, which will continue for another 40 years.
08:01And we must get through this with decency and dignity.
08:05How did this enormous increase actually come about?
08:08I mean, do we reproduce so readily simply because it's so much fun to try?
08:13Or are there other reasons?
08:17In the savannah of southern Africa lives a group of people for whom overpopulation does not seem to be an issue.
08:25Nomads.
08:26Nomadic cultures, such as the San of the Kalahari, are hunters.
08:30They live off what they hunt and plunder while wandering around.
08:33And this has been the case for millennia.
08:40What the region provides feeds the families.
08:43Special strategies prevent populations from becoming larger than nature can handle.
08:50Among the San, it is traditionally the women who conduct family politics.
08:57Children are breastfed for three to four years.
09:01Breastfeeding usually prevents ovulation.
09:03Therefore, no further conception will occur during this time.
09:11When the San people came into the focus of ethnologists in the 1950s,
09:16The researchers found that menstruation begins two to three years later in San girls.
09:22than girls in the USA and Europe.
09:26It is probably the result of the spartan diet.
09:32Their knowledge of medicinal plants, such as the contraceptive effect of plant bark,
09:38This allowed the San to exercise some degree of birth control.
09:41Helpful in enduring longer dry spells and surviving particularly lean times.
09:48Their nomadic culture has thus survived for millennia.
09:54Our ancestors also once lived as nomads.
09:58But eventually they became farmers and cattle breeders.
10:01It was the starting point for a development that could no longer be stopped.
10:06With serious consequences.
10:09Remains of one of the oldest settlements of mankind.
10:13Beida in Jordan.
10:14It proves that the change began about 10,000 years ago.
10:18People built their houses in a fertile region,
10:22which stretched in a crescent shape from the Nile to the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.
10:28This is what this city must have once looked like.
10:31Permanent buildings for 400 people, some even with basements, for storage.
10:38The settlement of Basta is located just a short distance away.
10:41An impressive metropolis at the time, with more than 2000 inhabitants.
10:45Children herded livestock and helped with house construction.
10:49They were no longer just additional freeloaders.
10:52For the people in the Neolithic megacity, offspring thus took on a whole new meaning.
11:00As a result, the division of labor emerged.
11:03Basis of progress and population growth.
11:11Advanced civilizations developed.
11:12Urban centers grew larger and gradually the world population increased.
11:18By the time of the Egyptian pharaohs, the number of people inhabiting the earth had risen to an estimated 200 million,
11:26It subsequently remained relatively constant.
11:28For millennia, the world's population grew very slowly.
11:32About 200 years ago, the situation changed dramatically.
11:36Annual growth suddenly skyrocketed.
11:42The cause? The beginning of the industrial revolution.
11:51Technological and medical advances led to significant changes in Europe and North America in the mid-19th century.
11:58for better hygiene, decreasing infant mortality and increasing life expectancy.
12:03The consequences?
12:04High birth rates and continued population growth to this day.
12:12The number of people on our planet continues to increase relentlessly.
12:17All decisions intended to slow growth only show their effects decades later.
12:26Population growth behaves like a speeding train.
12:31Even with emergency braking, it still takes a long time to come to a complete stop.
12:37Let's not kid ourselves.
12:38We can no longer go back to being hunter-gatherers.
12:41Their land consumption was and still is enormous.
12:44We must face the global problem head-on.
12:48Human history is characterized by phase transitions.
12:51The transition from hunter-gatherer societies to agricultural and later to industrialized societies.
12:57And they are what really triggered the population explosion.
13:01What should the next phase of humanity look like?
13:05So that population growth can proceed in line with available resources.
13:10And above all, what tools do we actually still have available at this advanced stage?
13:15to solve this problem in a humane and long-term way?
13:24An ordinary orphanage in China.
13:27One thing is immediately noticeable.
13:28It is predominantly girls who grow up here.
13:32Thousands of little girls are abandoned in China every year.
13:3699 out of 100 abandoned children are girls.
13:39A sad consequence of a misguided population policy.
13:47Large families were widespread.
13:49Until 40 years ago, China faced a dramatic development.
13:54A looming overpopulation.
13:57To avert the danger and avoid falling behind economically compared to the West,
14:02China imposed the so-called one-child policy in 1979.
14:06With few exceptions, each family was only allowed to have one child.
14:10The high regard for male offspring in Chinese society prompted parents to
14:15to influence the gender of the only child.
14:19Abortions or even the killing of newborn girls were the result.
14:26While the population was just under 600 million in 1953, it had reached almost one billion by the end of the 1970s.
14:33In just 40 years, the number would foreseeably have grown to two billion.
14:38Therefore, the leadership decided to take the radical step of limiting births.
14:44In this way, China's leadership prevented impending famines and social unrest.
14:50During the resulting respite, it was indeed possible to catch up economically.
14:54and to achieve a standard that is hardly inferior to the Western one.
14:58However, unpleasant side effects arose.
15:04A generation of only children grew up, spoiled like pashas.
15:11The number of extremely overweight Chinese people jumped to 15 percent.
15:16In Germany, by comparison, it's 12 percent.
15:19In just ten years, the rate of obesity in China has doubled.
15:23200 million children in China are overweight and therefore at risk of health problems.
15:35Furthermore, one-fifth of all Chinese men will not find a wife.
15:40Experts anticipate an increase in prostitution and human trafficking.
15:44They follow a policy that should actually secure the future of their population.
15:50Even without state-mandated birth control, we are experiencing in Germany
15:55For several generations now, there has been a significant decline in birth rates.
16:03The curve, which had been steadily rising, fell in the mid-1960s.
16:08The introduction of the birth control pill abruptly reduced the number of births in Germany.
16:14Immigration has always been able to compensate for the absolute population decline.
16:19Until 2003, when the number of births first fell below 700,000 per year.
16:28How did this development come about?
16:31Experts see them as the result of a fundamental structural change in society.
16:36Progress and social security make children unnecessary for securing one's livelihood.
16:44Therefore, the decision to have children is no longer about quantity,
16:48Rather, the focus is now on quality, on first-class training and comprehensive support for young talent.
16:55Special attention is given to each individual child.
17:02It should provide optimal preparation for future competition in school and later professional life.
17:09A guarantee of recognition, advancement, and economic success in society.
17:15This keeps the birth rate low and the population decreases.
17:20Despite all the incentives for more children that politicians have decided on in recent years.
17:26The German development has no effect on global population figures.
17:31However, it shows what new challenges await a shrinking population,
17:36in view of the emerging problems of a demographically unbalanced, aging society.
17:44Interesting. One can study European countries to see how population planning can be successful,
17:50but is implemented completely unintentionally.
17:53The prerequisites appear to be a stable environment and a high level of education.
17:57Socially just distribution of wealth and the appreciation and equality of the sexes.
18:02This then forms the basis for many people prioritizing their own quality of life.
18:07and this is apparently often associated with foregoing having children.
18:11But humans are not only social beings, they are also part of nature and
18:18their evolution.
18:19Our roots reach deep into the history of life.
18:24You could try biological root canal treatments.
18:27This can be painful.
18:30Because the population planning strategies used in the animal kingdom are not for everyone.
18:41Every animal strives to ensure the survival of its offspring.
18:45In order to avoid endangering the entire species, evolution has produced a variety of strategies.
18:54These curious animals, naked mole-rats, employ a method of population control that is unique among mammals.
19:03Food is scarce.
19:06The survival of the colony is only ensured if no more animals are born than the environment can feed.
19:12Naked mole rats solve this problem in their own way.
19:15Only one female, the queen, is capable of producing offspring.
19:22A hormone secreted by her in her urine keeps all other females infertile.
19:31Only when the queen dies do the suppressed females become fertile and a short struggle for leadership begins.
19:39The heir to the throne will be the animal that gives birth the fastest.
19:42The hierarchy has been restored.
19:44The colony's survival is ensured through birth control.
19:50There are many strategies for protection against overpopulation in the animal kingdom.
19:55The meerkats, which appear cute to us, employ a particularly cruel method.
20:03Usually, only one pair produces offspring.
20:07However, the other females are still capable of reproduction and are therefore competitors for the alpha female.
20:15If the lower-ranking females become pregnant, they demonstrate their subservience to the alpha female in order not to be rejected.
20:26However, if the food supply for the group becomes scarce, gestures of submission are no longer sufficient.
20:32Then the offspring of alpha females compete with those of lower-ranking animals for vital resources.
20:39A confrontation ensues.
20:42Ultimately, the survival of the group is at stake.
20:50The aggression is ultimately directed against the weakest link in the chain.
20:55The offspring of lower-ranking females.
21:05Infanticide increases the group's chances of survival.
21:09The population is ensured solely by the offspring of the alpha animals.
21:17Our closest relatives, the chimpanzees, exhibit a behavior in crisis situations that
21:23Something scientists considered almost impossible until very recently.
21:28Today, 800 chimpanzees live in the Budongo Forest Reserve in northwestern Uganda.
21:35Previously, their habitat was a large, continuous belt of forest.
21:39However, valuable land was lost due to the deforestation of the surrounding rainforest.
21:44It was getting crowded in the Budongo Forest.
21:51More and more animals arrived, especially females, some with young.
21:56migrated into the territory of a local group.
22:00The number of animals nearly doubled as a result.
22:03But the chimpanzees were unable to expand their habitat.
22:08Population pressure increased, aggression grew, until it erupted.
22:13Some animals began hunting young Zunuffers.
22:20Surprisingly for the researchers, the killers are females.
22:24Five of them are still carrying their young with them.
22:35The trigger was probably the struggle for dwindling resources.
22:39There were too many reproductive females, too many offspring.
22:43There was neither enough food available, nor could the animals leave the reserve and enter a new territory.
22:50This extreme behavior is a consequence of overpopulation.
22:55Well, what have we learned?
22:57Nature knows no mercy.
22:59Therefore, their strategies are also ruthless.
23:01But that's not the way for us.
23:03Without morals, we are monkeys.
23:05On the other hand, it must be acknowledged that external conditions create population pressure and resource pressure.
23:11This pressure, in turn, means stress for the individual.
23:15And that can become very dangerous.
23:17What cultural strategies could be considered for the future to solve this?
23:22Paradoxically, the megacities that have emerged in recent decades offer an interesting way out of the overpopulation trap.
23:33Lagos. Over eleven million people in a very small space.
23:37About half of them live in slums. Without drinking water, without electricity.
23:41People live in garbage, walk over garbage, and die as a result.
23:46The death rate in the Nigerian megacity is high.
23:50Nevertheless, the population continues to grow unstoppably.
23:53Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, has 140 million inhabitants.
23:58And everyone is flocking to Lagos. 6,000 every day.
24:03The city is the dirtiest, most dangerous, and fastest growing metropolis in the world.
24:09Is this our future?
24:13Since 2008, for the first time, more people live in cities than in the countryside.
24:18And the number is growing daily.
24:24Megacities are trending.
24:26These are cities with more than 10 million inhabitants or a population density of over 2000 people per square kilometer.
24:35Their numbers are increasing worldwide.
24:36And in their shadow, the slums proliferate.
24:42Does this pose a danger or an opportunity, as urban planners and sociologists claim?
24:47They see megacities, like Mumbai in India, as a future option precisely because of their slums.
24:53The most diverse social circles are closely intertwined.
24:57Living quarters and job opportunities are located close together.
25:00Many experts believe there are good prospects for near full employment.
25:05How realistic is this utopia?
25:08Mumbai has a population of almost 19 million people living in an area of nearly 440 square kilometers.
25:13For comparison, Berlin's area is twice as large, yet it has only around 3.5 million inhabitants.
25:18In fact, people with very different incomes live in close proximity, without ghettoization.
25:28Even if individuals hope for greater opportunities from life in the city than in the countryside,
25:33Slums undoubtedly remain hell.
25:36More than one million people live in the Darabi slum in Mumbai, most of them below the poverty line.
25:45But here there is hope for the future, unlike out in the countryside,
25:49where with a little farmland or livestock you can barely earn more than two dollars a day.
25:56Dayanand came here six months ago from a village in the Himalayas in northern India.
26:02He has already found work and plans to bring his family over soon.
26:07in a district with the highest population density in the world.
26:14400,000 inhabitants live here per square kilometer, more than a hundred times the population of German cities.
26:25Dayanand's workplace is within walking distance.
26:28According to future projections, this will be typical for megacities that have grown from slums.
26:34From an ecological perspective, it's a plus.
26:38Dayanand, like many others, benefits from the working conditions in the modern megacity.
26:44Instead of automation through machines, manpower is used as a resource that is both flexible and virtually inexhaustible.
26:52The situation is reminiscent of Europe at the end of the 19th century, and not by chance.
26:59as legions of wage laborers created the basis for progress and prosperity during the industrial revolution.
27:08The city reacts quickly to changes, constantly creating new jobs and earning opportunities from within itself.
27:15For example, the Dababalas, the food messengers of Mumbai.
27:23Mangesch is one of 5000.
27:25He is part of a simple, yet well-paid transport system,
27:29This allows women to deliver lunch to their working husbands at their workplaces.
27:35Every day, the Dababalas collect 175,000 lunches,
27:40to deliver it to managers or workers, thereby saving them time and money.
27:48This service is only available in Mumbai.
27:51a colonial legacy that serves as a model for other megacities.
27:55And megacities offer yet another advantage,
27:58the basic medical care provided there.
28:04An important effect of this care,
28:07This is already becoming apparent, not least with regard to contraceptives.
28:11Birth rates are declining more sharply in cities, even in slums, than in rural areas.
28:17Megacities hold the key to defusing the population bomb.
28:22For the individual, they are the only hope for social advancement.
28:26For the people on our planet, they may be the only chance,
28:31to defy the dangers of overpopulation by the year 2050.
28:37Well, that's a surprise.
28:39Megacities are a clear sign of hope,
28:42because they are self-organized, unplanned population control measures.
28:47And with that, we have enormous potential to solve overpopulation.
28:50and thus, of course, also to defuse the population bomb.
28:55If we solve this challenge decently and with dignity,
28:59Then we will have survived the worst in 40 years.
29:01Then the world population will stabilize again.
29:05The number of people will decrease.
29:07I am very optimistic, we can do it.
29:10Because those who think critically become pessimists.
29:13But those who think deeply are optimists.
29:15With that in mind, see you around.
29:29The world's population is growing and food is becoming increasingly scarce.
29:34Can potatoes satisfy world hunger?
29:36Can fish and meat be produced on a massive scale?
29:39without environmental damage and animal suffering?
29:41Researchers are looking for new ideas,
29:43However, not all of them are appetizing.
29:46What can we eat with a clear conscience?
29:48Adventures await.
29:50July 8th at 10:15 PM.
30:07Incidentally, overpopulation is truly the biggest problem.
30:13what we currently have on the planet.
30:15You won't notice that much now.
30:16Well, here in Germany we don't have such a big problem with overpopulation.
30:19But one of my best friends once said to me,
30:23Good heavens, you show all these little mice in your adventure research.
30:26These cute little things.
30:27And people staring, well, I'm very afraid of that.
30:30But he doesn't show the elephant in the room.
30:33I then used that in my moderation.
30:36So we get upset about such trivial things, but we don't see the really big issue.
30:40That is indeed overpopulation.
30:42That is the problem par excellence.
30:44Because the more people there are, who also want special foods, for example,
30:53who want access to special resources
30:56and then consume those resources, which are then gone.
30:58The more dramatic it all becomes.
31:02So, if you've seen the show, you know what I mean.
31:05Just the beginning.
31:08Dairy cattle in Saudi Arabia.
31:10In the desert.
31:12I beg you.
31:13So, for one liter of milk, 2500 liters of water are needed.
31:17And that's just the groundwater.
31:19I mean, once they've used it all up,
31:20Then they will take the water from the desalination plant.
31:23And you need 50 liters of oil to produce one liter of water.
31:27Then you can do the math: 50 times 2500.
31:30how much water you need, i.e., how much oil you consume,
31:34to get a liter of milk.
31:36There are people there, you just can't believe it.
31:39That's insane!
31:41The madness.
31:42And that's precisely the problem.
31:44Let's put all of this into a cosmic context.
31:47What will it mean if a planet goes so wildly crazy?
31:50Or what if the inhabitants of a planet go completely crazy, like we do?
31:54Not like you and me, I know that too,
31:57but people who, for example, keep dairy cattle in the desert.
32:02What does that mean for a planet?
32:04Las Vegas.
32:05What does that mean for a planet?
32:07If the living beings on this planet, who consider themselves intelligent,
32:12or assume that they, perhaps they even believe it,
32:15that they were intelligent
32:17when they do things like that.
32:18This basically means the end.
32:22Actually, the number of inhabitants we currently have on Earth is...
32:25Some, not all, so, how should I put it?
32:28Those who are merely looking are of course excluded, so to speak.
32:31these are
32:33They are a disaster.
32:35On a cosmic scale,
32:36So, looking at the long term now,
32:38not just 500,000 years,
32:39but really for a long time
32:40so a few million years,
32:42Can such a horde of rampaging fresh milk drinkers actually be controlled?
32:45those who moisten the Fleckvieh cattle in the desert,
32:50so feed them with grass,
32:52to produce milk there
32:53They can't last long.
32:55So this is also the optimist,
32:57So, the optimist, like myself,
32:58He naturally thinks,
32:59For example, if aliens visit our planet,
33:02Then they can't be cattle like us.
33:05Because if they were cattle like us,
33:08then they would never have been able to
33:11to develop a space technology.
33:12Notice, understand.
33:14So if you ever meet an alien,
33:16then you can be almost certain,
33:17He's incredibly smart.
33:18And he's not as stupid as we are.
33:20He won't make those kinds of mistakes anymore.
33:22Because he has left them behind.
33:23That brings us to the point.
33:25And that was basically it,
33:26what I would have liked to tell you,
33:28a society or a civilization,
33:30or call civilization
33:32on a planet
33:33They have to go through something.
33:34This is called a bottleneck.
33:36In English, bottleneck.
33:38There are various bottlenecks,
33:39through which life on the planet must go,
33:41so that it doesn't disappear again.
33:42And there are similar things for civilizations.
33:44Just think about it,
33:45in the last century,
33:46We definitely had such a bottleneck
33:47That was the bottleneck,
33:49that we do not cause a nuclear holocaust.
33:52So, the destruction of humanity
33:54through the large nuclear weapons,
33:58Armed nations: the USA and the Soviet Union.
34:00If they really,
34:02Cuban Missile Crisis,
34:03then you'll know right away,
34:04what it was like.
34:04Yes, that was in the early 60s.
34:07The Russians brought
34:09nuclear-armed missiles
34:11to the island of Cuba.
34:12The Americans felt this way
34:13naturally threatened
34:14although the Americans in Turkey
34:17had nuclear missiles stationed there.
34:18And the Russians felt
34:19This, of course, also puts them at risk.
34:20You can see,
34:20That was something like that.
34:21You are threatening me,
34:22I threaten you and so on.
34:23But if you look at the files
34:25today,
34:26then the world stood still
34:27a confrontation was imminent at that time
34:29with atomic bombs.
34:31And the reservoir
34:32an atomic bomb
34:32on our planet
34:33is so huge,
34:33that we could easily destroy each other.
34:35So, the atomic holocaust,
34:37A civilization has to go through that.
34:38so that they can even
34:39can develop further.
34:40This constant threat
34:41with self-destruction,
34:42That won't be enough.
34:43The next point is environmental destruction.
34:46So the environment will
34:47massively damaged.
34:48Why?
34:49This is one of the reasons why,
34:50because there are too many of us,
34:52or rather because there are so many of us,
34:53who have enormous demands
34:55to their environment.
34:56They consume resources,
34:57Well, then I'm afraid I have to say,
34:58We both belong to that group too.
35:01So you and I,
35:01I'm sorry.
35:02We belong to a certain type,
35:03We consume too much.
35:05Yes, we still need to do something about that.
35:07We absolutely must
35:07can offer the world something
35:09that the world
35:10to a certain extent
35:11can even take legal action.
35:12Because that is extremely important.
35:13Such a lifestyle,
35:14how we can currently afford,
35:15The world cannot afford this.
35:17So back to the bottleneck.
35:19Essentially
35:20are we in the middle
35:21inside this bottleneck
35:23because we are in the bottleneck
35:24environmental destruction.
35:25If we get through this,
35:26if we succeed,
35:27one,
35:28Now I'll say the word,
35:29I know,
35:29You've heard that many times before.
35:30and probably also from
35:31from a more qualified source
35:32as from my
35:34but if it is us,
35:34if we want a sustainable
35:36Lifestyle succeeds,
35:37that we no longer
35:39consume,
35:39as there is
35:40but always
35:41a dynamic
35:42to maintain balance
35:44namely with
35:45renewable
35:45Resources are working,
35:47which can regenerate themselves,
35:48then one could
35:49to pass through this throat
35:50through this bottleneck.
35:52Yes,
35:52then of course
35:53the biggest bottleneck
35:54The issue of overpopulation.
35:55I want to tell you honestly,
35:57the moderation
35:57a broadcast
35:58overpopulation
35:59It's not easy.
36:01Because the topic
36:02is somehow,
36:03Oh well,
36:03So, you have something like this:
36:04strange feeling
36:05in the neck
36:05because when you talk about it,
36:07that we actually
36:07too many
36:09then of course one must
36:10also ask the question
36:11Yes,
36:11How can we solve this now?
36:12The problem?
36:13I mean,
36:13We can tell the people
36:14do not kill
36:14for God's sake.
36:16but maybe we can
36:17contribute to this
36:19that in the future
36:19fewer children
36:20to be born
36:21and then there is
36:22at the same time the problem,
36:23that one is in Europe
36:25lives in an environment
36:26where there are far fewer anyway
36:27Children are born
36:28and one tends to talk about it,
36:30Good heavens,
36:31a country like Germany
36:32One day it will happen
36:32only be populated
36:34in some places
36:35and then usually
36:35from the older generation.
36:37Do you notice that?
36:38This is such a completely
36:39strange tension field
36:40And that wasn't easy either.
36:41during moderation.
36:42But we have been working on it.
36:44and have tried
36:45that little bit
36:46also to make it easier
36:48the topic.
36:49I mean,
36:49so directly
36:50will the problem
36:50It cannot be solved anyway
36:51and we have such a
36:52Timescale of 40 years,
36:54in which then
36:55after the 40 years
36:56could the world
36:57through the bottleneck
36:58overpopulation
36:59through his.
37:00Yes.
37:01And that would be
37:02a great thing,
37:03because after that one would have
37:04in a way, again
37:05Scope for action,
37:07Scope for action,
37:08which then
37:08available
37:09for development
37:10of new technologies
37:12for development
37:12of a sustainable economy,
37:14for development
37:15a world
37:16who perhaps
37:17the image
37:19would get a little closer
37:20that we all
37:21carry it within us.
37:22Namely in a
37:23To live in paradise,
37:24That also means
37:25to live a contented life,
37:27to be happy,
37:28not so tense
37:29to be,
37:30not so money-hungry
37:30to be here
37:32to stay relaxed
37:33to be friendly,
37:34to be loving.
37:35Perhaps that will work.
37:37Currently we have
37:38more stress.
37:39We have quite a lot
37:39Stress on the planet.
37:41Not only there,
37:41where many people live
37:42but also there,
37:43where, like here in Germany,
37:45relatively few people
37:46are actually there.
37:47Nevertheless, we are stressed,
37:48because we have
37:48Resource pressure,
37:49We are under time pressure
37:50and if we succeed,
37:52all these pressures
37:53to relax something
37:55then this planet could
37:56perhaps even
37:56a very attractive one
37:57planet will
37:58for aliens
37:59who can then see
38:00yeah hey,
38:01the boys and girls
38:02on planet Earth,
38:03They've figured it out too.
38:05And then all of that could happen
38:07a really great thing
38:07here.
38:13Out of.
38:14Once desert,
38:14please.
38:15Once desert,
38:16Yes.
38:17So,
38:18Can I just continue?
38:18Yes.
38:20Adventure Research
38:21with the topic
38:22Fascination desert.
38:25Desert
38:26is actually
38:27More like something negative.
38:29It's hot,
38:30during the day,
38:31It's cold at night,
38:33It is empty
38:34and most of the time nobody is there.
38:36And yet
38:37are deserts
38:38something unbelievable
38:39Fascinating.
38:40Because they represent
38:41represents a limit
38:42a limit of
38:43our normally
38:44comprehensible reality.
38:45We will be in
38:46Adventure Research
38:47talk about it
38:48that deserts are growing,
38:49Deserts are fascinating,
38:50that in deserts
38:51a lot of life
38:52Deserts not only
38:54consist of sand
38:55that deserts
38:55something really great
38:57and that they
38:57above all
38:57one possibility
38:59offer,
39:00the future
39:01the entire
39:01humanity
39:02to secure.
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