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Gloomy Forecast for the Prophets of Apocalypse and Bright Forecast for Chemists
Author(s) -
Keinan Ehud
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201209383
Subject(s) - human health , global population , population , energy (signal processing) , population growth , meteorology , natural resource economics , nanotechnology , operations research , history , engineering , geography , economics , demography , mathematics , sociology , environmental health , medicine , materials science , statistics
The human population , doubling every 50 years, creates global problems, including limitations on energy, raw materials, food, water, health, and air. However, the future of humankind seems bright thanks to the even faster growth of human knowledge, doubling every 18 months, and the unpredictability of science. Our global challenges are likely to be met by yet unknown technologies, mostly invented by chemists.