I’m writing about the importance of over population, and how it can be the downfall of us all if not acted upon. A population too big for the planet to handle can lead to scarce resources and food witch will drastically change the way our world and our rules work. No one will be able to own their own property and will be confined to an apartment type home. The luxury of getting full or ‘STUFFED’ when eating won’t be available because there won’t nearly be enough food for everyone and most likely won’t have 3 meals a day like we are used to. We must think of reasonable ways to change the course we are on to…
It is a timely discussion of what sort of importance should we give to the issue of overpopulation and what can we do about it, directed mostly to the elected readers of this weekly publication. It works on the expansion of the line of inquiry and creates room for curiosity.…
Overpopulation is a generally unwanted condition where an organism's numbers exceed the carrying capacity of its habitat. The term often refers to the relationship between the human population and its environment, the Earth, or smaller geographical areas such as countries. Overpopulation can result from an increase in births, a decline in mortality rates, an increase in immigration, or an unsustainable biome and weakening of resources. It is possible for very sparingly populated areas to be overpopulated if the area has a skimpy or non-existent capability to sustain life.…
Persuasive Essay: Overpopulation Overpopulation is becoming one of the most preeminent problems facing human civilization. This complicated, pervasive issue will come to be a problem of the utmost importance for people of all races, religions, and nationalities. Our planet now provides for approximately 5.8 billion people, with projections of around 10 billion by the year 2050. Two billion of these are extremely poor, the poorest of which live in absolute poverty and misery. One very serious effect of the population explosion is its detrimental effects on the global environment.…
In the article “Overpopulation Is Still the Problem”, the author discusses the problem of overpopulation and how it affected the world in different ways. He believes that overpopulation has led to famine, extinction of species, desertification and many more. First the author challenges the view of some newspapers that declare that overpopulation has never been a problem and that china , a nation of a billion , was able to overcome it’s exceedance of carrying capacity by using technologies by stating china’s various food crisises throughout history. He argues that due to china’s multiple famines that led to millions’ starvations, it shouldn’t be used as an argument proving point. However, china’s one-child policy has prevented future…
A movie produced in 1973, known as Soylent Green, presented a world in which the solution to famine created by global overpopulation was feeding people the processed remains of their own kind. While obviously an extreme example, this movie temporarily put a spotlight on the seemingly inevitable overpopulation of our planet and the problems it would bring. One might ask what, exactly, overpopulation is. Overpopulation is defined as “a state in which the population size of a species has passed the carrying capacity of the environment” (Brunson 1). In other words, when a population’s consumption of natural resources becomes unsustainable, that population is overpopulated.…
Over Populations is causing major problems right now, such as Global Problems , and the losing of natural resources. In other Words,,”Human Overpopulation is pressing…
When given the task to analyze “Overpopulation is not a problem” written by Erle C. Ellis and “The Island of plenty” written by Johnson C. Montgomery one may quickly realize how opposed these two articles are to each other. Johnson C. Montgomery was a California attorney and a member of the organization Zero Population Growth. He talks about how the United States shouldn’t be sharing its resources with this “polluted world of people”. Mr. Ellis is an environmental scientist at the University of Maryland. He believes that “The conditions that sustain humanity are not natural and never have been”. He thinks humans have been supporting big populations for years by engineering ecosystems and using technologies. For Montgomery overpopulation is obviously an issue while for Ellis it is not.…
Unecre, P. (2008), ‘Aspects of Overpopulation’, 07 April 2008, http://www.snakebytestudios.com/columns/academic/overpopulation/#_Toc195326729 (date of access 10 December 2010)…
The effect of Overpopulation not just limited in the environment and economy, it is also already spread to people’s daily lives and work. It is impact may be long-lasting and mainly concentrate on the human health. People need more resources to use and live, they are destroying the environment to meet the…
The Earth’s population is stated to be approaching seven billion. Concurrently, environmental degradation is persistent and resources are being depleted. The wealthy nations have assured the less wealthy ones that they too are on the verge to become rich. Their population growth rate is expected to decline as well (Dykstra, 1965). However, it is no longer apparent if this will happen. Scarcity of resources such as oil is anticipated to reduce the economic growth in future. It is expected that the demographic transition which has coincided with economic growth is unlikely for most nations. About 220,000 people are increased in the planet on a daily basis (Mudd, 2013). Statistics report that the United States of America alone adds one person…
Through by this large amount of population we are putting big stress on our planet. Generally, this stress will lead life in the direction of starvation, because as much as the number of human raises, they need more land for habitation. In this case less land would be available for farming, which will lead the planet epically less developed countries toward food crises. Overpopulation is results from various causes such as not having the capacity to control family size or lack of family planning, improved medicine, low death rate, lack of global epidemics, and poor education…etc. These are the main reasons behind overpopulation.…
Overpopulation is excessive human population in an area to the point of overcrowding, depletion of natural resources and environmental deterioration (Dictionary.com, 2009). Right now there is estimated to be 6.765 billion people in the world. Based on several causes of overpopulation this number is expected to increase to 8.9 billion by 2050. These four causes are the decline in death, the rise in birth rate, migration and lack of education. The death rate is low because science ...…
Overpopulation is not simply a function of the size or density of the population. Overpopulation can be determined using the ratio of population to available sustainable resources. If a given environment has a population of ten, but there is food or drinking water enough for only nine, then that environment is overpopulated; if the population is 100 individuals but there is enough food, shelter, and water for 200 for the indefinite future, then it is not. Overpopulation can result from an increase in births, a decline in mortality rates due to medical advances, from an increase in immigration, a decrease in emigration, or from an unsustainable use and depletion of resources. It is possible for very sparsely-populated areas to be overpopulated, as the area in question may have a very meager or non-existent capability to sustain human life (e.g. the middle of the Sahara desert or Antarctica).…
Malthus’ warning against overpopulation gains increasing significance nowadays because the world’s population continues to grow and rapidly approach the absolute limit set by the carrying capacity of the earth’s environment. This critical review examines an essay that there is the tendency of the human population to exceed their resources. Also, this criticizes the argumentation that checks in the form of famine, disease etc. are necessary to keep societies in the level of their subsistence. The "Essay on the Principle of Population” was written by Thomas Malthus, an English cleric, scholar, and influential in the fields of demography and political economy. His presentation was so striking that his name became attached to the idea of overpopulation until now.…