Micro-sensors stuck to honey bees to help solve mass deaths

Yahoo – AFP, 25 Aug 2015

Australian scientists use micro-sensors attached to honey bees as part of a global 

push to understand the key factors driving a worldwide population decline of the 

pollinators (AFP Photo/Saeed Khan)

Sydney (AFP) - Australian scientists revealed on Tuesday they are using micro-sensors attached to honey bees as part of a global push to understand the key factors driving a worldwide population decline of the pollinators.

There has been a sharp plunge in the population of honey bees, which pollinate about 70 percent of global crops, or one-third of food that humans eat including fruits and vegetables, raising fears over food security.

Researchers have said the falling hive numbers were caused by threats such as the sudden death of millions of adult insects in beehives -- known as "colony collapse disorder" -- a blood-sucking mite called Varroa, pesticides and climate change.

"The micro-sensors that we are using help us to ask different questions that we couldn't ask before because we've never really been able to quantify the behaviour of bees both out in the environment and in their hives," Gary Fitt from Australia's national science agency CSIRO told AFP.

The sensors, 2.5 millimetres (0.1 inches) in width and breadth and weighing 5.4 milligrams (0.0002 ounces) -- lighter than pollen that bees collect -- are glued to the back of European honey bees. Sophisticated data collection receptors are also built into hives.

The CSIRO -- working together with US technology firm Intel and Japanese conglomerate Hitachi -- is now offering free access to the sensor technology and data analytics to identify global patterns.

"What we are gathering with the sensors is environmental information from where the bees have been," said Fitt, the science director of the CSIRO's health and biosecurity division.

"It tells us about their changes in behaviour -- how often and how long they're foraging, whether they're feeding, whether they're collecting pollen, what they're doing in the hives.

In the US, beekeepers lost 42% of colonies over the 12 months to May 2015, the

second-worst year on record for US bee mortality, with the worst season reported

in 2012-13 (AFP Photo/Georges Gobet)

"We can then see if we can interpret those changes to tell us how they are responding to different stresses."

About 10,000 bees and their hives in the southern island state of Tasmania have been tagged, with others set to be monitored in the cities of Sydney and Canberra.

Around the same number of bees in Brazil were also being monitored by researchers, with interest expressed from scientists in Europe and North America, Fitt said.

"(We'll) use the same approaches and ask similar questions but in different parts of the world to get a much bigger picture of the problem and collectively find solutions," he added.

Australia's bee populations have not been devastated as the island continent has yet to be affected by the Varroa mite.

In countries such as the US, beekeepers lost 42 percent of colonies over the 12 months to May this year -- the second-worst year on record for US bee mortality, with the worst season reported in 2012-13, the US Department of Agriculture have estimated.

Beijing to Close Major Coal Power Plants by 2016

Jakarta Globe, Feifei Shen, Mar 24, 2015

A worker unloads coal at a storage site along a railway station in Shenyang,
Liaoning province, China in this file picture taken on April 13, 2010. (Reuters
Photo/Sheng Li)

Beijing, where pollution averaged more than twice China’s national standard last year, will close the last of its four major coal-fired power plants next year.

China’s capital city will close China Huaneng’s 845 megawatt power plant next year, after last week closing plants owned by Guohua Electric Power and Beijing Energy Investment, according to a statement Monday on the website of the city’s economic planning agency.

A fourth major power plant, owned by China Datang, was shut last year.

The plants will be replaced by four gas-fired stations with capacity to supply 2.6 times more electricity than the coal plants. Once complete, the city’s power and its central heating will be entirely generated by clean energy, said the Municipal Commission of Development and Reform.

Air pollution has attracted more public attention in the past few years as heavy smog envelops swathes of the nation including Beijing and Shanghai. About 90 percent of the 161 cities whose air quality was monitored in 2014 failed to meet official standards, according to a report by China’s National Bureau of Statistics.

The level of PM2.5, the small particles that pose the greatest risk to human health, averaged 85.9 micrograms per cubic meter last year in the capital, compared with the national standard of 35.

Beijing plans to cut annual coal consumption by 13 million metric tons by 2017 from the 2012 level in a bid to slash the concentration of pollutants. The city also aims to take other measures such as closing polluted companies and cutting cement production capacity to clear the air.

Bloomberg

"THE INNATE REVEALED" – (a message from Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll)

Kryon.com, November 22, 2014

This live channelling was Given in Portland Oregon

Lee Carroll

To help the reader, this channelling has been revisited [by Lee and Kryon] to provide even clearer understanding. Sometime information is even added. Often what happens live has implied energy within it, which carries a kind of communication that the printed page does not. So enjoy this enhanced message given in Portland on November 22, 2014.

Greetings, dear ones, I am Kryon of Magnetic Service. This evening I wish to expose a very important system to you in ways we have not before. We're going to call this information, "The beginning of information about Innate." We have given channels before, and one of them was called, The Mysterious Innate. In addition, we have given you some of the attributes about your own body, and tonight we wish to enhance that even more.

The Magnificent Innate

Dear ones, I want to tell you about a process in your body, not only mysterious because it's not in 3D, but elusive enough that you can't really define it. Yet it belongs to you so well that it is actually you. You might ask, "How can something be inside me, Kryon, that I don't really know about?" The answer I give yet again is that your DNA is not working at full capacity yet, and that this is the subject. Your consciousness is not yet synchronized to the reality of certain kinds of things at work within your body. But these realizations are coming to you eventually, and the recalibration of humanity includes an evolved Spirit within you, and we're going to talk a little bit more about that in this channelling.

Let us first identify Innate: What makes Innate so mysterious is that it is not a brain function. It is also, perhaps, one of the only systems in the body that is not centralized. This is difficult for you to conceive of. This system has not been discovered, so it is also not yet defined in medical science. Yet it has been seen over and over.

What you have in DNA is very difficult to explain. The trillions of DNA molecules in your body are all in communication with each other, all the time. It has to be the way of it, if you consider what DNA does. How does your body know which kind of cell it needs and where it needs it? It is Innate that is responsible for all of that at your birth. The DNA, you might say, is truly an esoteric central control. It is the field around the trillions of pieces of DNA that knows itself as one entity. All the DNA together work as one system through this field, and that one system is called Innate. So you might say that it is the combination of the DNA cells in your body together seen as one thing, which you call the smart body, Innate. It is decentralized. There is no single organ or gland of the body that is responsible for Innate. Every single part of the body is involved in this smart body system.

As elusive as it is, you know how to find body solutions through Innate, and you often use muscle testing, or kinesiology. There are many ways - tapping, body talk, decoding, and more. All of these systems give you what we would call smart body feedback. This is done very successfully in order to find out what the smart body wants to tell you. Those who facilitate these processes absolutely know that they are talking to the "smart field" in the body. This field is representing the DNA as a whole, not an organ or a gland, and not the brain.

Innate is a Smart Back-up System

So the first thing we want to tell you about Innate is that it is a body-wide system that "knows" more than anything that your nervous system or brain system could ever know. Innate is everywhere. It's in your toenail and in your hair. Innate is everywhere DNA is, in any form that DNA exists. It's unique and it's you.

Now, I've told you that medical science has seen this over and over, but they don't understand it. Let me give you an example. When a Human Being has a spinal cord severed in an accident, it is severed forever. We have talked about this before, and we said to you, "Isn't it odd that the spinal nerves don't reconnect and grow back?" Everything else in the body is programmed to regenerate, yet the cells in this area do not regenerate well. A severed limb can do it, but the nerves in the spinal cord don't reconnect. We've also told you there will be a time when it does regenerate, and that this is all part of the evolved Human that is coming. But let us talk about the way that it is now.

Picture this: Let's say that you know or have seen a paraplegic. Here is a man or woman in a chair who can move nothing but his or her head. Now, does it make sense to you that most of the nerves are severed in the spinal cord that allow any movement at all, yet the things in the body that depend on the brain's severed signals continue to work? The heart muscles continue to beat, even though you're told that the heart's beat-timing is sent from the brain for the signals to be in the right pattern.

Science has an answer to this for the heart (below), however, digestion also continues, reproduction continues and most of the body functions below the neck are uninterrupted. Yet the brain is not sending signals anymore. How do you explain it? Medical science actually has a pretty good explanation for the heart, since they see it all the time. They tell you that the heart can be autonomous, that it makes itself beat through special cells in the sinoatrial node. This is their description of Innate! They also are seeing a profound back-up system at work.

It's a back-up system within the DNA field that keeps you alive. The DNA field of your body actually connects with the brain, and the signals are still sent in a quantum way [wireless]. The sinoatrial node is a nerve antenna that continues to "pick up" the brain's transmissions through the field. It's so good at this that even if the brain is dead, it "remembers" the pattern for awhile, like a battery back-up. This is the power of Innate.

Remember that your quantum DNA field is in connection with the full body all the time, even though the spinal cord is severed. The brain continues to send the signals, the DNA field receives them and sends them to the heart muscles, to the digestive processes - everything but the muscles in other areas. I ask you to look carefully at this oddity of the body through spinal injury, and you'll know that I'm right. This is so you have real-world proof of this phenomenon.

Innate, the smart body, will keep you alive even if the wires to the brain are severed. Innate is smart, much more than what you will call the survival organ, the brain. The brain is a massive computer of survival and existence. It gives you the ability to be here. But it's not that smart. It can't even tell you if you have a horrible disease in your blood. But Innate can.

The Singularity of Innate

It's time for you to think of your DNA as one thing, not trillions of things. Science does not even acknowledge that DNA can communicate with itself, yet it has to in order for your body to sort things out the way it does. The beauty of what we are teaching is this: The corporeal body, the one that the brain controls, is beginning to build a bridge to Innate. This bridge is going to be through intuition and will eventually create a time where you will be your own medical intuitive! You will not only know what is going within your body, but you will also have a much higher understanding of the energy of your Akash.

Innate has its own kind of programming. It is programmed for something that you should know about since, with this new energy, it's time to rewrite that program.

Survival Programming

Whereas the Human brain is programmed for corporeal survival, Innate is programmed for spiritual survival. You might ask, "What is the difference?" Corporeal survival is your ability to get away from the tiger chasing you and find food and shelter. It gives you the logic to figure out these things and to stay alive. Spiritual survival is a very different thing, and it's very esoteric. It's a much larger kind of survival. It pushes humanity's spiritual evolution and provides a higher working level of your DNA. Let me explain.

Innate knows what the ancients knew. It knows the grand plan; remember, it's connected to the Higher-Self. It knows how long humanity has on this planet before it will no longer be able to make a decision toward planetary graduation. Innate knows that; your DNA knows that. What is the prime directive of Innate? It is to do everything it can for you, giving you multiple chances at free choice, allowing an awakening to take place, therefore, allowing humanity to go across the bridge of survival and move into an ascended planet status. That is the prime directive.

Spiritual survival represents the potential evolution of Earth, and everything is designed around that. Innate is designed to push you forward in any way possible within the free choice system into spiritual awareness. That is what Innate is for. Do you see the grand plan in all this? You have a built-in guidance system to help you navigate your potential.

In this process, Innate also crosses the bridge with corporeal chemistry in very different ways. Innate is responsible for spontaneous remission. Now you know where that comes from. Did you really think that came out of the brain? How can a Human have a disease disappear overnight? How is it possible that the corporeal body can cleanse itself of something so unbalanced overnight? How can tissue grow in a greatly accelerated rate to cause healing almost overnight? I have just given you things that hospitals have seen over and over. They have X-rayed them and verified them and chemically tested them. There is no way, they might say, that this could normally happen. For those who are spiritual, it has to be a miracle! For the science minded, it remains unexplainable. The beauty of this is that it is, indeed, explainable. It's the miracle of Innate! It's your own body keeping you alive. It's a profound, miraculous back-up system.

That's the power that you have. When Innate finally starts to build the bridge to the corporeal self, the Human Being as you know it today will disappear. The one who takes its place will have a much longer life, able to repair itself and even grow limbs back. This is how it was designed, dear ones, and this should start to make sense to you.

Innate's Old Energy Programming

Now that you know what Innate is, let's talk about Innate's programming from the past. In Kryon Book One [1993], I spoke about something that Innate is responsible for. I said, "It's time to drop your karma." Karma is energy carried with you as a result of past-life experience, pulled forward through the veil into a reincarnate body. It is an energy of unfinished business. That's karma. It's real, and it was needed in an older energy.

It's in the DNA and Innate governs it. So when I told you to drop your karma, I told you that you must talk to your body and talk to your cells. When you do that, say, "I am done with the energy of the past. I drop my old karma. I move forward." These were the first instructions you ever had from me about a process that crosses the bridge from the corporeal self to the Innate. We told you to use pure intent.

Cellular Shift is Not Automatic

Pure intent addresses your cells in a way that is so pure that the body sees it as truth and acts upon it. That is how karma is dropped. It sees you as the boss, as it should, and acts. Now, I want you to see what was not stated all those years ago that it's now time to reveal. I want this to make sense to you, so we first present the logic for it. Whatever programming the body has, it is totally governed by free choice. You have the choice to obey your brain's survival instructions or not. You have the free choice to believe that this message is real or not. Therefore, the esoteric choices in this new energy are not going to come automatically from your body. Free choice means you are required to use your divine consciousness to direct Innate to move into the new energy. Does it make sense to you that as you come into a new energy as an old soul, where karma is no longer needed, that Innate would drop it by itself? The answer is no. Innate waits for direction, and your consciousness shift isn't programmed into your DNA. That is what free choice is all about.

Now listen, for this is the teaching of the day. Innate, as smart as it is, will continue as before until it gets its new instruction. You have got to reprogram Innate, because it has an old energy bias. It has been working with you the same way as long as you've been a Human. It was designed to do certain things in a certain way, and it's time to change that. Your consciousness is the key to change this. It always was and always will be. Your free choice is needed to deprogram what I will call the instruction sets of Innate. So dropping your karma was the first new energy instruction I ever gave you, and now there is another one.

Reprogram the Innate in your body right now! This reprogramming is through your free conscious intent, and it's not hard. Your consciousness, through pure intent, is the king of body change. You've always known you can change your chemistry and heal your body, so talking to Innate is the key. Now it gets more complicated. I'll tell you what the old program is, in a moment.

The Power of You

Here is the way it works: You must talk to Innate as your best friend, as you would a Human Being sitting in front of you. Consider, you're going to have a conversation with your best friend. Would you then just repeat things over and over? The answer is no. Instead, you'd give a good friend the credibility of intelligence to listen and understand. That is the credibility you must have with Innate. Innate is your smart body and it's time for you to reprogram what it thinks is your spiritual survival. This is because Innate has not crossed that marker of energy with you. Your consciousness has crossed into this new energy, not your old original cellular structure. Recalibration, dear ones, is not automatic.

Old soul, there are a few things you should understand. Do you find it interesting that Innate knows all about your past lives but you don't? How is that for an efficient system? Would you like to know more? What energy is it that you have in a past life, which you have earned, that you could use again today? We've talked about this. Mining the Akash is done through free choice of consciousness, and talking to your Innate. Muscle testing, tapping, body talk, affirmations, decoding - whatever you can do that circumvents the corporeal logic of the Human brain constitutes work with Innate. You have got to think differently in your reality to fully realize this potential. You are used to quantity, repetition and other linear concepts in order to change things within you. Not anymore.

So now let us talk about what you have to reprogram, which is the biggest issue of Innate.

Reprogramming Your Body

Number one: Drop your karma. We say it again, that is number one. What is it that continues to push you around, dear ones, that is the Achilles' heel of your personality? What is it that is there that you just don't understand? I'll tell you, it's the energy of the past, and it's not needed for the future. Get rid of it. Innate will do what you tell it to. If it sees it as spiritual logic, it will cooperate, because with this channel, Innate is listening along with you! It knows what you know, and you are the consciousness trigger to change your own Innate.

Number two: Change the prime directive of Innate. What is it that Innate is built to do that makes no sense at all? I'm going to tell you right now, and it's one of the largest revelations to date. Dear ones, there is a system called reincarnation that is the engine, at the moment, for spiritual advancement on the planet. For example, you live a lifetime, you learn certain things, and you pass on. You are reborn into the planet, and within your DNA and Akash is the wisdom you carried from the past life. Each life gives you more wisdom, and you have the free choice to use it or not. But it comes in with you at birth as a new potential.

An old soul carries far more esoteric wisdom than a new soul does. You understand this so far? You, as an old soul, have been there and done that. Have you seen newbies on the planet? They can't make heads or tails out of anything! Every single lifetime builds a library of wisdom as you sit in the chair today. You know you're an old soul. Now guess what Innate does with that?

Innate's Old Program

Here is what Innate has learned to do, which the old system required. Are you ready? Death. In order for you to graduate, pick up the wisdom, and move forward into a higher spiritual consciousness in the next life, you need a short and productive life. Then you reincarnate with that wisdom. The faster the learning cycles are, the higher potential there is for the planet to awaken into a higher vibration - spiritual evolution. Are you starting to see where this is going? Innate, by design, will give you short lifetimes! What a system! It's important that you see the sense in this. In an older consciousness, this became the "engine of enlightenment." The recycling of old souls was the key. Let them have experience and wisdom. Then recycle them back into the planet so that the wisdom could be used.

It's important to remember that the old energy didn't really allow for present-life wisdom to be realized [used] by the grid of the planet. This was only accomplished through rebirth, and from DNA only working at about one-third its potential.

Suddenly in 2012, you passed the marker [as measured by the precession of the equinoxes], and you've come to a place in consciousness that the ancient prophecies all told you about. Dear ones, that's why I'm here! You have the ability, for the first time, to do what we saw was possible 25 years ago when I arrived. Your DNA is starting to evolve.

I want all of you to start telling Innate that you don't need to go through the transition of death to pass on the wisdom you have. There is a new process now, and it's different than any you have had in the past. Not only can your present wisdom to pass into the grids of the planet today, but everything you have learned from the beginning can be applied, too. Your full Akashic wisdom and learning is suddenly accessible in real time to the energy of Earth.

You don't need to reincarnate quickly anymore. Instead, you can do it by remaining here as your DNA starts to increase in efficiency. By the time you get to 36 percent (do the numerology), the process is complete. You will then have the ability to stay - a very long time! Dear ones, Innate doesn't know that. For thousands of years, it has been progressing this planet's potential spiritual growth by giving short lifetimes. Innate needs to know this, and you are the ones to tell it. Longer lifetimes are the key to the planet's evolution!

Doesn't it make logical sense, dear ones, that you could accomplish more on this planet if you don't have to be reborn and have to grow up all over again? Stay!

There are many on this earth who will say, "This is silly. You are born one way and stay that way." But this is simply old traditional thinking. You can reprogram almost everything in your body! Many of you know that you've changed your entire personality, perhaps even your Human nature! You've even changed your corporeal structure. There are those reading this who have stopped aging, and that's what this is about - proof that these things are real.

The key to stopping the aging process as you know it today is reprogramming the Innate. Your body is designed to age you, even against common sense! Your cellular body was designed to rejuvenate, and it isn't doing it well. Do you understand? It is the job of Innate to change this, but it needs the signal to do that. This is free choice, and you are the only one who can do it - not a facilitator or a healer, not a channeller. YOU need to learn how to communicate with Innate.

Tell Innate: "I no longer have to die to create spiritual growth." You can do this almost any way you want. Learn how to build affirmations that are positive. Get in touch with the body through whatever process that comes your way. You are ready to communicate to the smart body.

Now, the beauty of this is the following: You don't have to convince Innate of anything. It knows! It has been waiting for the call! As soon as it sees the progress that you have made in your consciousness, it's a done deal. Did you hear that? Innate knows who you are! After all, it's the smart body. But it doesn't know until you make the call.

Innate is ready to cooperate as soon as it sees the new and evolved avenue of spiritual evolution. The result of this is that you may live a lot longer. Some say, "I'm not certain I want that!" If you say that, then you are buying into an old paradigm that age equals health problems. It doesn't have to! So that's the next thing: Stay healthy as you don't age. [Kryon smile] Youthing is not complicated! Is it possible it's filled with love? Yes. Is it new? Yes. It's also smart enough to work well.

Dear ones, I just gave you an attribute that I have never been able to give humanity, and you heard it for the first time tonight. For this information to be given, you had to cross the 2012 energy, past 2013, into 2014. It's time you knew the truth. You are in control of so much more than you have been taught. That's how powerful you are. You're going to see it, and then you're going to believe it. Indeed, you are all unique, and not all of you are going to be able to awaken Innate with the same strength. That's because each of you are individuals on a unique spiritual path. Dear ones, I know who you are!

Old souls of this planet, awaken! Awaken to a new process, and a new kind of life. You can double your lifespan and more! Don't be afraid of what you see around you. There will be those who don't agree with any of this, and the result will be that they can't do it. They don't understand it. Slowly, as you don't age as much, the differences between you and them may actually frighten them. It won't be forever, because there will come a time when all humanity will know what I'm teaching tonight is true.

And so it is.

KRYON

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16-Year-Old Irish Girls Win Google Science Fair 2014 With World-Changing Crop Yield Breakthrough

Inhabitat, Beverley Mitchell, 09/25/14

Irish teenagers Ciara Judge, Émer Hickey and Sophie Healy-Thow, all 16, have won the Google Science Fair 2014. Their project, Combating the Global Food Crisis, aims to provide a solution to low crop yields by pairing a nitrogen-fixing bacteria that naturally occurs in the soil with cereal crops it does not normally associate with, such as barley and oats. The results were incredible: the girls found their test crops germinated in half the time and had a drymass yield up to 74 percent greater than usual.

All three girls love gardening. In 2011, at school, they were also studying the food crisis in the Horn of Africa and were thinking about ways they could help. One day Hickey pulled up some pea plants from her garden and brought them in to discuss strange nodules on the roots with the girls’ science teacher. Peas, like other leguminous plants, have a symbiotic relationship with diazatrophic rhizobia bacteria found in soil. This relationship leads to nitrogen fixing in the soil, which can reduce the need for added chemical fertilizers.

Related: 15-Year-Old Develops Flashlight Powered by Body Heat, Wins Top Prize in GoogleScience Fair

The girls decided to experiment with the effects of rhizobia on non-leguminous plants. After trialing over 10,000 barley and oat seeds, the results were astonishing. Two types of rhizobia in particular showed great potential for agricultural use. In their submission to the Fair the girls stated: “These results have significant potential for increasing yields of food crops and reducing losses due to adverse weather conditions. They also offer opportunities for reducing the environmental footprint of agriculture by reducing fertilizer usage. As demand for cereals increases with population growth, this discovery could act as a partial solution to the impending food poverty crisis. There is potential for future work in this area and we plan to investigate the biochemical mechanism involved and carry out more extensive field trials.”

The trio are not newcomers to scientific achievement. In 2013, they were awarded first place in a national science competition from a field of 2,000 entries. They then represented Ireland in the European Contest for Young Scientists in September 2013, where they also won first place. As the Grand Prize winners of the Google Science Fair 2014, Ciara, Émer and Sophie each receive a 10-day trip to the Galapagos Islands provided by National Geographic, a $50,000 scholarship from Google, a personalized LEGO prize provided by LEGO Education and the chance to participate in astronaut training at the Virgin Galactic Spaceport in the Mojave desert. You can sign up here to be notified when entries open for the Google Science Fair 2015.

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Include population in UN's post-2015 agenda: China health head

Want China Times, Xinhua 2014-09-23

Quadruplets born in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, Aug. 17, 2011. (File photo/Xinhua)

A Chinese representative on Monday called on the international community to work together to include the issue of population in the post-2015 development agenda.

Li Bin, minister in charge of the National Health and Family Planning Commission of China, made the appeal at a special session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), the follow-up to the Program of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD).

In 1994, 179 governments signed in Cairo the ICPD Program of Action, a landmark agreement that emphasizes that population is not only about counting people, but about making sure every person counts.

To effectively implement the follow-up to the ICPD Program of Action beyond 2014, "we should work together to include the issue of population in the post-2015 development agenda, and provide more support to developing countries," Li told the UNGA.

"We should further review the emerging problems and new challenges in the area of population and development, and study in-depth the relations between population and sustainable development," she said.

The top Chinese family planning official also called on the international community to continue to uphold the goals and principles of the Program of Action, incorporate the issue of population in the overall plan for economic and social development, keep increasing input in reproductive health and family planning, and enable everyone to have access to reproductive health and family planning services.

In her speech, Li said that in the view of the Chinese government, "the issue of population is ultimately a development issue."

"Since ICPD, the Chinese government, based on its national conditions, has taken a comprehensive approach in addressing the issues of the quantity, quality, structure and distribution of the population," she said.

"We have implemented a family planning program which has effectively slowed down the excessively fast population growth," she said.

"As a result, economic and social development has been advanced, and people's livelihood has shown remarkable improvement," she added.

The Chinese representative also said the Chinese government and people will continue to assist the West African countries hit by the Ebola outbreak in their fight against the epidemic.

"The Chinese government will, as always, promote international exchanges and cooperation in the area of population and development, including South-South cooperation, and make further and greater contributions to the building of our common home and the realization of the future we want," she said.

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World population to hit 11bn in 2100 – with 70% chance of continuous rise

World population to hit 11bn in 2100 – with 70% chance of continuous rise

New study overturns 20 years of consensus on peak projection of 9bn and gradual decline

theguardian.com, Damian Carrington, Thursday 18 September 2014

A crowded Oshodi market in Lagos, Nigeria – the country’s population is expected
to soar from 200m today to 900m by 2100. Photograph: James Marshall/Corbis

The world’s population is now odds-on to swell ever-higher for the rest of the century, posing grave challenges for food supplies, healthcare and social cohesion. A ground-breaking analysis released on Thursday shows there is a 70% chance that the number of people on the planet will rise continuously from 7bn today to 11bn in 2100.

The work overturns 20 years of consensus that global population, and the stresses it brings, will peak by 2050 at about 9bn people. “The previous projections said this problem was going to go away so it took the focus off the population issue,” said Prof Adrian Raftery, at the University of Washington, who led the international research team. “There is now a strong argument that population should return to the top of the international agenda. Population is the driver of just about everything else and rapid population growth can exacerbate all kinds of challenges.” Lack of healthcare, poverty, pollution and rising unrest and crime are all problems linked to booming populations, he said.

“Population policy has been abandoned in recent decades. It is barely mentioned in discussions on sustainability or development such as the UN-led sustainable development goals,” said Simon Ross, chief executive of Population Matters, a thinktank supported by naturalist Sir David Attenborough and scientist James Lovelock. “The significance of the new work is that it provides greater certainty. Specifically, it is highly likely that, given current policies, the world population will be between 40-75% larger than today in the lifetime of many of today’s children and will still be growing at that point,” Ross said.

Many widely-accepted analyses of global problems, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s assessment of global warming, assume a population peak by 2050.

Sub-saharan Africa is set to be by far the fastest growing region, with population rocketing from 1bn today to between 3.5bn and 5bn in 2100. Previously, the fall in fertility rates that began in the 1980s in many African countries was expected to continue but the most recent data shows this has not happened. In countries like Nigeria, the continent’s most populous nation, the decline has stalled completely with the average woman bearing six children. Nigeria’s population is expected to soar from 200m today to 900m by 2100.

The cause of the stalled fertility rate is two-fold, said Raftery: a failure to meet the need for contraception and a continued preference for large families. “The unmet need for contraception - at 25% of women - has not changed in for 20 years,” he said. The preference for large families is linked to lack of female education which limits women’s life choices, said Raftery. In Nigeria, 28% of girls still do not complete primary education.

Global population trend Photograph: Guardian

Another key factor included for the first time was new data on the HIV/AIDS epidemic showing it is not claiming as many lives as once anticipated. “Twenty years ago the impact on population was absolutely gigantic,” Raftery said. “Now the accessibility of antiretroviral drugs is much greater and the epidemic appeared to have passed its peak and was not quite as bad as was feared.”

The research, conducted by an international team including UN experts, is published In the journal Science and for the first time uses advanced statistics to place convincing upper and lower limits on future population growth. Previous estimates were based on judgments of future trends made by researchers, a “somewhat vague and subjective” approach, said Raftery. This predicted the world’s population would range somewhere between 7bn and 16bn by 2100. “This interval was so huge to be essentially meaningless and therefore it was ignored,” he said.

But the new research narrows the future range to between 9.6bn and 12.3bn by 2100. This greatly increased certainty – 80% – allowed the researchers to be confident that global population would not peak any time during in the 21st century.

Another population concern is the ageing populations currently seen in Europe and Japan, which raises questions about how working populations will support large numbers of elderly people. But the new research shows the same issue will affect countries whose populations are very young today. Brazil, for example, currently has 8.6 people of working age for every person over 65, but that will fall to 1.5 by 2100, well below the current level in Japan. China and India will face the same issue as Brazil, said Raftery: “The problem of ageing societies will be on them, in population terms, before they know it and their governments should be making plans.”

In separate work, published on Monday, Wolfgang Lutz, director of the Vienna Institute of Demography, highlighted education as crucial in not only reducing birth rates but also enabling people to prosper even while populations are growing fast. In Ghana, for example, women without education have an average of 5.7 children, while women with secondary education have 3.2 and women with tertiary education only 1.5. But he said: “It is not primarily the number of people that’s important in population policy, it’s what they are capable of, their level of education, and their health.”

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"Recalibration of Free Choice"–  Mar 3, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: (Old) Souls, Midpoint on 21-12-2012, Shift of Human Consciousness, Black & White vs. Color, 1 - Spirituality (Religions) shifting, Loose a Pope “soon”, 2 - Humans will change react to drama, 3 - Civilizations/Population on Earth,  4 - Alternate energy sources (Geothermal, Tidal (Paddle wheels), Wind), 5 – Financials Institutes/concepts will change (Integrity – Ethical) , 6 - News/Media/TV to change, 7 – Big Pharmaceutical company will collapse “soon”, (Keep people sick), (Integrity – Ethical)  8 – Wars will be over on Earth, Global Unity, … etc.) - (Text version)

“…  3 - Longer Life is Going to Happen, But…

Here is one that is a review. We keep bringing it up because Humans don't believe it. If you're going to start living longer, there are those who are frightened that there will be overpopulation. You've seen the way it is so far, and the geometric progression of mathematics is absolute and you cannot change it. So if you look at the population of the earth and how much it has shifted in the last two decades, it's frightening to you. What would change that progression?

The answer is simple, but requires a change in thinking. The answer is a civilization on the planet who understands a new survival scenario. Instead of a basic population who has been told to have a lot of children to enhance the race [old survival], they begin to understand the logic of a new scenario. The Akashic wisdom of the ages will start to creep in with a basic survival scenario shift. Not every single woman will look at herself and say, "The clock is ticking," but instead can say, "I have been a mother 14 times in a row. I'm going to sit this one out." It's a woman who understands that there is no loss or guilt in this, and actually feels that the new survival attribute is to keep the family small or not at all! Also, as we have said before, even those who are currently ignorant of population control will figure out what is causing babies to be born [Kryon joke].

Part of the new Africa will be education and healing, and eventually a zero population growth, just like some of the first-world nations currently have. Those who are currently tied to a spiritual doctrine will actually have that doctrine changed (watch for it) regarding Human birth. Then they will be able to make free choice that is appropriate even within the establishment of organized religion. You see, things are going to change where common sense will say, "Perhaps it would help the planet if I didn't have children or perhaps just one child." Then the obvious, "Perhaps I can exist economically better and be wiser with just one. It will help the one!" Watch for these changes. For those of you who are steeped in the tradition of the doctrines and would say that sounds outrageously impossible, I give you the new coming pope [Kryon smile]. For those of you who feel that uncontrolled procreation is inevitable, I encourage you to see statistics you haven't seen or didn't care to look at yet about what first-world countries have already accomplished on their own, without any mandates. It's already happening. That was number three.….”

Beijing plans orderly migration of 100m farmers to cities

Want China Times, Xinhua 2014-08-09

Harvesting sunflowers in Gansu province, Sept. 11, 2013. (Photo/Xinhua)

China's sweeping hukou reform will grant 100 million migrant workers equal access to urban social welfare by 2020, but many have started to wonder where the 100 million strong rural population will settle down.

Will they flock to already over-crowded mega cities like Beijing and Shanghai, where increasing population will further strain urban resources? Or will they become residents of China's smaller cities, which would be better able to accommodate them but provide fewer job opportunities?

The State Council, the Cabinet, issued the most comprehensive guideline for the newest reforms to the hukou or household registration system, on July 30.

To ensure orderly migration of the 100 million migrant workers, the guideline asks local governments to set differentiated household registration policies based on their ability to absorb migrants and provide public services.

Under the guideline, migrants can settle in towns and small cites with populations under 500,000 freely, with previous hukou restrictions abolished. For medium-sized cities with populations between 500,000 and 1 millon, however, controls have been set in hopes of establishing an orderly resettlement of rural population.

More conditions apply for big cities of with populations between 3 million and 5 million, and movement into cities with more than 5 million people will be strictly controlled.

Primary conditions include legally being employed at a stable job for a certain period and owning or renting a residence in the city they wish to move to.

China's hukou system is tied to one's place of residence and was set up in 1958 to control movement of rural population into cities. The hukou system has prevented the country's 269 million migrant workers from receiving the same public benefits as people with urban hukous and is felt to hold back the urbanization and domestic consumption that the government sees as China's growth engine for the future.

The new guideline says China will implement a single household registration, scrapping the nominal distinction between rural and urban hukou, but the benefits tied to hukou of different areas still exist with more developed areas providing better public services.

The differentiated hukou relocation policies are based on three socioeconomic factors, Huang Ming, vice minister of the Public Security Ministry, told Xinhua

After years of rapid urbanization, with 52.6% of the population living in cities last year, imbalances have arisen in the process. While more industrialized eastern areas are under increasing environmental strains, middle and western regions are still underdeveloped; the industrialization potential of underpopulated small cities have yet to be realized; and mega cities suffer from excessive populations, causing deteriorating "urban malaise" such air pollution and traffic jams.

For instance, migration has stretched Beijing's capacity to the extreme. According to official figures, Beijing's population increased by 87% from 1990 to 2011, reaching 20.18 million. Among the new residents, 7.42 million are migrants. The surge in population means Beijing now has to import its natural gas and fuel supply, as well as 64% of its power.

Wang Xiaoguang, an expert with the Chinese Academy of Governance, said differentiated policies could serve the goal of encouraging development of middle and western areas. At the same time, these policies are necessary, given the fact relocating to big cities costs much more.

After 15 years in the booming province of Guangdong, migrant worker Liu Yong finally decided to settle in Longshe township near his hometown in southwest Chongqing municipality. Liu, a former villager from Dadi village, bought a new house in the town in 2010 and relocated his hukou from his rural home to the town.

The reason for his move is simple. Settling down in the nearby town is affordable and allows him to live near his relatives. The same year, the housing price in Guangzhou, capital city of Guangdong, soared beyond Liu's financial reach.

Chongqing, as one of the two pilot hukou-reform regions in China, abolished its hukou restrictions in 2010. So far, nearly 4 million migrant workers have relocated their household registrations to urban areas, with 70% of them choosing to settle in towns and small cities. This shows migrant workers are more likely to relocate to more livable and affordable small cities.

Zhang Xiaode, another professor with the Chinese Academy of Governance, said setting employment and residence requirements for hukou relocation can prevent rural populations from flooding into cities, which could cause slums and widespread unemployment in cities.

According to a survey, about 50% of China's migrant workers who have entered cities work in counties and small cities. Keeping this in mind, the government has planned to invest more in infrastructure in small cities so they can attract more migrant workers to settle down.