The
Human Population: Six Billion and
Growing
October 12, 1999 marks the day the Earth's population reaches 6 billion. Over one billion
will be adolescents, just entering their reproductive years.
In 1804: world
population reached 1 billion
1927: 2 billion (123 years later)
1960: 3 billion (33 years)
1974: 4 billion (13 years)
1987: 5 billion (12 years)
1999: 6 billion (12 years)
The fact that the fifth and sixth billion both took 12 years is a sign that at last the rate of increase has begun to slow. But humanity's numbers continue to rise. The seventh and eighth billion will probably take another 14 to 15 years each, but that rate is not guaranteed.
About the Cairo and the Hague Forum
In 1999, the international community was engaged in a five-year review of the ICPD
Programme of Action. Dubbed "Cairo Plus Five" or "ICPD+5", this
process assessed the progress made to date, examne the obstacles remaining, and produce
practical recommendations iamed at making the conference’s 20-year goals a reality.
About the Cairo Consensus
The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo in
September 1994, was a watershed for global population and development initiatives.
Countries now accept that population concerns are at the heart of sustainable development strategies. Rapid population growth and high fertility hold back development. They help to perpetuate poverty. They make it hard for countries to concentrate on the future, because resources are soaked up by present needs.
But the Cairo conference also put an end to the concept of "population control". The conference recognized that smaller families and slower population growth depend not on "control" but on free choice- the idea, borne out by 30 years of experience, that most women, given the choice, will have fewer children than their mothers did.
AIDS is the Number One Killer
Worldwide, 33.4 million people are infected with AIDS/HIV, including 1.3 million children.
The incurable disease has claimed 13.9 million lives since the epidemic began, 3.2 million
of them children. In 1998, 2.5 million people died of AIDS. Fully 30% of all tuberculosis
deaths are due to HIV/AIDS infections, and if those deaths are counted, AIDS in 2020 will
be the single largest cause of adult death from infectious diseases.
Population and the Environment
Migration Affects Urbanization Patterns
- The number of cities with more than 1 million people rose from 111 in 1960 to 280 in 1995, and two-thirds of those are in developing nations.
- By 2010, the developing-world total will be 368 such cities, up from 173 in 1990. This will further strain those nations’ capacity to provide services such as energy, education, health care, transportation, sanitation and physical security.
PREFACE TO THE BOOK "THE WISDOM OF LONGEVITY"
This study shows the current employed hypothesis put forward by post - 13th century Mongolians is no longer valid. The cause for the hypothesis initial adoption was the suitability of the scientific knowledge which had promoting the personal abilities and development of the ancient Mongolians, and gave them the opportunity to advance several centuries ahead of other nations.
This scientific knowledge, which was suited to the Mongolians, consists of the following ideas:
1. The knowledge of the development of the body energy development through the reduction of standard nutrition. This is inconceivable; to make mental nutrition obligatory for the Mongolian nation. This can be described as one of humanity’s great discoveries.
2. The knowledge of how to prevent of loss of the human mind through standard nutrition. It was the national achievement of the ancient Mongolians and their great contribution to human wisdom.
3. The knowledge of how to maintain the human spirit. This reason was shared on the national level. This is one of the key significant advancements for personal development of Mongolians.
From our study we have uncovered some interesting findings on the subject of human nutrition. A summary of points about new nutrition conception is described in my interview in the following (newspaper "Khongor zul" number.25-28, 1999) :
Correspondent: How do you describe the ancient Mongolians’ conception of nutrition?
G.L.: The conception of scientific and moral nutrition for ancient Mongolians was called: "The meal per day once for God, twice for humans and three times for animals". Now it is easy to decide, what I am. I am very sure that many of us are God.
Corr.: Does consuming a small meal means something negative like hunger or fatigue?
G.L.: Hunger and illness do not depend on the volume of meals, but result from incorrect posture and generally unhealthy nutrition habits. The main causes of hunger and diseases are the poisoning of the human mind through inaccurate theories. For example, dissatisfaction with meal is one of the poisonings of the mind, which is just as harmful as the presence of negative energy in the human body. On the other hand, one can say, that the information and energy qualities of foods and the human body do not affect each other. The most profound idea in these remarks is the following: " The first requirement of the human body is the inherent energy of body produced by the mind, but not the energy from food ". This is one of our new basic nutrition conceptions.
Corr.: What will happen with the food calories now?
G.L.: It is enough to understand, that they are nothing. They are insignificant. The theory of "calories" is unscientific, and suggests two kinds of death for human. The first is so - called "malnutrition ", and the second is " overfed". Anyone who does not wish to die needs to adopt a new theory. I will suggest it for humankind, and this is:
"Food is an additional requirement for humans but doing without it is all the better ". Everybody must learn this nutrition theory by heart.
Corr.: What is the place for nutrients in this theory?
G.L.: The Mongolians had eaten 4 to 5 times less than the Italian or French in the 13th century. The qualitative and quantitative poor nutrition made the Mongolians not into poor beggars, but very much the opposite - the conquerors of the then known world. Today’s mechanical understanding of "the human" caused surface-level fascination with this, such as with foods, beverages, artificial calories, nutrients and vitamin requirements, and their artificial balance, and at present the unscientifically - high allowances of food all over the world. When everybody learns to refute this false introduction of the "human" as a "skeleton", they must say goodbye to the theory of calories and also to the currently - accepted concept of "nutritional requirements".
Corr.: How does this new theory define human nutrition?
G.L.: The " objective nutrition" as food was described by the ancient Mongolians as very primitive. It is wordless that the ancient Mongolians had founded their nutrition ideas on a substantial base of scientific knowledge, which contributed to the personal development of the Mongolian people. This is mental nutrition. This is the most important human nutrition for all time.
Corr.: What is necessary to do ,if this new conception of nutrition will help humankind?
G.L.: The removal of mind - poisoning is the right beginning. The root of this kind of poisoning is found in today’s invalid theories.
It is our belief that the scientific approach to human life is fundamentally wrong. By scientific, I mean the recognition of only that which can be perceived by five senses.
A human being consists of mind, body energy and physical body. The mind creates the body energy that sustains and nourishes the body. In the past, the human being did not require any other food and he lived to a very great age.
However, the human mind lost its power to sustain the body when human beings began to eat what we today call food.
The modern scientific approach regards food as the only way of maintaining life. This disregard for mind has reduced human beings to the level of animals, human beings are no longer truly human. As a result of this reduction of human beings and the diminishing of mental spiritual power, human beings have become susceptible to disease and all the weakness that lead to short life expectancy.
With our loss of mental power, we have also lost wisdom and true knowledge. The scientific approach to life gives us only information. Information of this kinds belongs to the lowest part of human life: the physical, the animal.
So, as a result of being dominated by the empirical approach to life, we have a world where average life expectancy is 35, where poverty, disease and famine are rife everywhere, where true wisdom has been superseded by the amassing of information.
There is a way to cure even the most dreaded diseases, to eradicate them. Broadly, we need to cleanse the mind, develop it and restore it to its former potency. If we can rely on the mind generating body energy to fuel the body, if we can change the fixed idea that the physical nourishment is necessary for body health, then we can hope to reduce all the ills of human life - and become more fully human.
We promote some new conceptions about the new technology of medical treatment. When such methods, which are able to affect at once all cells of the human body, are finally acknowledged the real treatment then all previously - accepted theories of the technology of medical treatment will be summarily discredited. Now is just the time , where I will suggest to humankind the real treatment technology, in the true sense of the term, which is able to treat all kinds of diseases for example cancer, but without tablets.
This is not only the treatment of diseases, also includes the possibility of individual self-treatment and a guarantee for human longevity and as well.
That is a pleasure for me to inform our readers about new knowledge, which was a single wish of humans all along in our history and is now becoming a reality, and I hope that the implications include a new collective understanding of human health and its place in our world.
August, 1999
G.Lkhagvaa Dr. Sc.(tech)
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