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The first 50 years of the next millennium will be critical for the world’s population. By 2050 population growth should have lev
The first 50 years of the next millennium will be critical for the world’s population. By 2050 population growth should have lev
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2011-01-13
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The first 50 years of the next millennium will be critical for the world’s population. By 2050 population growth should have leveled off, but by then we’ll have 10 billion people -- two-thirds as many again as we have today. The rate of population growth is something we can choose right now, though it’s not something that just happens, but a matter of human choice. The choice is a complicated one, with many variables, but it remains a choice.
If we want to prevent a population explosion, we should take action now -- or assist the poorer countries to do so. They need better government, better institutions, better labor and capital markets, better schools.
Anything that increases the value of women’s time and adds to the cost of caring for a child makes a woman less likely to have that child. Since big families are often seen as safety nets for illness and old age, improving poor people’s access to insurance, pensions and welfare institutions also has a major impact. This can be as simple as rural credit, providing a means of saving. Finally, there is education -- both for women and, perhaps even more important, for the next generation of children.
These steps are there to be taken, but there appear to be some countries that are not seriously trying at the moment. If we cannot achieve that we will certainly not control population.
That said, I don’t feel pessimistic that we are going to run out of resources: we are becoming more efficient at producing food faster than the rate at which population is increasing. There is, however, a risk that we will wreck the environment so effectively that the world will no longer be an attractive place to live. That really would be a dismal outcome, to reach world population equilibrium only to find we’d destroyed the natural environment in the process.
One reason that women tend to have more children is that ______.
选项
A、raising a child is very valuable so far as her time is concerned
B、more children can reduce the cost of raising them
C、the cost for caring for a child is worthwhile
D、the care for a child does not cost her much
答案
D
解析
推断题型见第三段第一句:Anything that increases the value of women’s time and adds to the cost of caring for a child makes a woman less likely to have that child. (如果加大妇女的(单位)时间价值和增加照料一个孩子的花费会使她们不那么愿意要(生)那个孩子);这句话的言外之意即目前妇女的时间价值不高,抚养孩子的花费也不很大,因此妇女们愿意多要些孩子;所以D为答案。
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