University Daily Kansan / Friday, May 1, 1992
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Population projections
A new report estimates the global population will climb to 8.5 billion in the next 33 years.
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World population affects environment
The Associated Press
LONDON — World population, rising faster than ever and headed for 6 billion, is a crucial factor in environmental destruction and must be considered at the Earth Summit, the U.N. Population Fund said yesterday.
Nafis Sadik, the fund's executive director, said that summit documents barely mentioned population growth. She said she understood the Roman Catholic Church was involved in blocking inclusion of family planning.
"Unless you really deal with population, you can forget about environment or about development," she said.
Sadik said the first pre-summit meeting, last year, had put population on the agenda, but the second meeting, this year, had diluted everything in its proposed programs and in the Earth Charter, to be signed by heads of government.
"All mention of family planning has been removed. In fact, family planning has been addressed in the most round-about fashion. ... that was, I understand, at the very active participation of the Vatican and by one or two governments. ... Argentina and the Philippines," she said.
According to the fund's annual report, the State of World Population 1992, the population will increase by about 97 million annually until the year 2000, the equivalent of the population of the United States every 2 1/2 years.
"If we carefully husband them, world resources are adequate for the sustained development of the planet," Sadik said.
The report came five weeks before the June summit in Rio de Janeiro, called the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development.
Sadik said fund officials had been talking to summit secretary-general
"Unless you really deal with population,you can forget about environment or
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about development."
Nafis Sadik
U.N. Population Fund
Maurice Strong and to governments with strong population programs to see what could be done about adding to the agenda. She did not identify the governments.
"I think the population issue will be addressed," she said.
The report publishes long-range population projections from the U.N. Population Division. According to the projections, the world population will be 5.48 billion in mid-1992, climbing to 6 billion by 1998—two years earlier than previously forecast.
The next decade's projected growth, about 97 million annually, is the highest ever, with nearly all the growth in Africa, Asia and Latin America the report said.
It said more should be done for the world's 1.1 billion poorest people. It also indicated a need to improve health and education, and to raise the status of women. Special attention should be given to Africa and South Asia, where more than half the population increase occurs, it said.
Japanese workaholics get relief
The Associated Press
Through a haze of cigarette smoke, they recount feelings of powerlessness and the overwhelming desire to conform and be accepted.
TOKYO — The middle-aged men sit on folding chairs in a small, barren room, taking turns talking about their addiction and the agonizing downward spiral that led them here.
They are not talking about drugs or alcohol. Work is their addiction, and they call themselves Workaholics anonymous.
"For 17 years I did whatever the company wanted of me," said one man in blue jeans. He recounted how he went tens of thousands of dollars into debt wining and dining prospective customers, just so he could be his firm's top sales representative in the region.
"I was on the verge of divorce; I'd lost touch with my children, but the company was everything to me," said the man, who has since quit and opened a noodle shop, where he still works 10-12 hour days. "It was all that mattered."
Privacy is paramount in the group of about 10 people. Members spoke on condition of anonymity, and no photographs were allowed.
According to Satoru Salto, who founded the group three months ago, workaholic tendencies are widespread among Japanese because of the intense pressures on them to conform and to identify with their corporate "family."
"Like alcohols, workaholics feel they have no control over the situation."
Saito said.
"What I am doing is putting the label of sickness on something that before had been considered normal and healthy in our society," Saito said in an interview. "To vary degrees, workaholism is a problem shared by all Japanese adults."
Heart attacks and strokes — both often stress-related — are the second and third most common causes of death in Japan after cancer. Surveys suggest more than one-third of all workers fear they will fall victim to "karoshi," or death from overwork.
"Karoshi is the modern version of seppuku," said one of the Workaholics Anonymous members. "It is considered an honor, the ultimate sacrifice." Seppuku is ritual suicide.
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