Human Overpopulation
Overpopulation of Humans The impact of human activity on the environment is catastrophically devastating and destructible. Assisting to that destruction is the increasing number of people that make up the worlds population today. Overpopulation is the condition of giving birth to a number of people living on earth that over exceeds the amount of space, resources and land found on our planet. According to reports from the United Nations (2007), “World population is currently growing by approximately 75 million people per year.” Such growth should be considered alarming and a possible threat to people as well as our environment. Humans all over the world must understand that these changes in population growth will foreshadow many changes in the years to come, including death. The world’s population is rapidly increasing and the necessary resources that were once in abundance such as clean water, clean air, fuel, electricity, and food are now becoming scarce. As the population continues to expand, there will be that much greater demands on our planet that will create pollution, deforestation, and atmospheric changes. The issue of overpopulation is in fact related to birth control and poverty. Many of the most overpopulated countries with a population of over 200 million people each are China, India, United States, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, and Brazil (2007). In contrast, there are people who believe that the population of humans will not continue to increase as estimated by scientists and the government. Doug Allen, dean of the school of Architecture for Georgia Institute of Technology, disagrees and believes that “nothing ever continues at its present rate, neither the stock market nor population growth” (Hoevel, 2008). Allen continues to say that, “there is a substantial body of evidence that the world population will flatten out in about 30 years” (Hoevel). In spite of Allen’s theories, the environment must still face an issue at large that deserves to be
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