The UN declared that the global population reached the milestone of seven billion by Monday 31st October 2011. This will impact greatly on the countries around the world to provide for the needs of the overly crowded population. With the world's population more than doubling over the last half century, basics like food and water are under more strain than ever, say experts, and providing for an additional 2-3 billion people in the next 50 years is a serious worry. Water usage is set to increase by 50 percent between 2007 and 2025 in developing nations, while food security remains a challenge with 925 million people going hungry. However, climate change also going to be the biggest challenge with the rising usage and the global need of energy. A crowded population hits 7 billion.
According to Parvinder Singh, head of communications for ActionAid India "The issue of population cannot be seen divorced from the aspect of resource or energy footprint."
In Western Australia, the Government is planning to furthermore increase the energy prices. "For budget planning purposes, the 2011-12 State Budget assumes that residential electricity tariffs will increase by 5 per cent in 2012-13 and by 12 per cent in each of 2013-14 and 2014-15," stated the Energy Minister Peter Collier.
The revelation about the true scale of price increases in the pipeline came as Verve Energy warned of a gas supply crisis. Verve managing director Shirley In't Veld said the company risked a gas shortage crisis when its gas supply agreement with the North West Shelf expired in 2015. "There is the potential for us either having insufficient gas or being out of gas and that's the biggest challenge we're facing at the moment," she said. Therefore, this is actually a great time to go Renewable Energy, which will benefit the environment and also sustain our energy requirement.
More energy prices increases to come
