迈克尔•赫尔曼 (Michael Herrmann) 是联合国人口基金经济学和人口学高级顾问。

全球人口即将达到80亿，接下来会发生什么？

Children in Namarjung, Western Development Region, Nepal, 2017. Rebecca Zaal/Pexels
Mothers wait with their babies to be attended by a midwife at Ntimaru Sub County Level 4 Hospital in Kehancha, Migori County, Kenya, 8 June 2022. UNFPA
Health worker Aydah Mohamed attending to neonatal babies at Al Shaab Hospital in Aden, Yemen, 24 February 2022. UNFPA
迈克尔•赫尔曼

为满足庞大且不断增长的世界人口的需求并提高生活水平，将需要提高生产力水平，这也能够刺激消费。同时，能源、制造和运输业要变得更加环保，人类行为也需要做出改变，否则将给自然环境带来越来越大的压力。