BVU Seminar November 29‚ 2012 Final Paper Population Growth and Food Supplies The world population is currently at 7.6 billion (PBR). In the article‚ Billions and Billions‚ in The New Yorker which is discussing the world’s population reaching seven billion‚ Author Elizabeth Kolbert said “Depending on how you look at it‚ it has taken humanity a long time to reach this landmark‚ or practically no time at all (The New Yorker). Keeping that statement in mind let’s take a look back at history.
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India ’s population is in peril. Without the implementation of stringent‚ effective population management policies‚ the country ’s population will rise above 2 billion within the next 20 years (www.fpaindia.com). In the absence of control programs‚ India ’s ever growing population will lead to increased incidents of famine‚ disease‚ environmental stress and result in a severe shortage of housing facilities. However‚ if the Indian government quickly administers population regulations so that couples
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Ehrlich and Ehrlich‚ in the abstract from “The Population Bomb Revisited”‚ believe that overpopulation is a problem that needs to be constantly addressed for humanity to survive in the long run. On the other hand‚ Furedi shares his views‚ in the article “Really Bad Ideas: Population Control”‚ about how he thinks the people that perceive overpopulation as a hindrance are the real problem here rather than overpopulation itself. Baird‚ from “Population Panic”‚ takes a neutral stand
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Reduction in the fertility as a population policy is necessary to maintain social stability. Discuss with reference to developing countries. Fertility refers to the number of children a woman has on average during the years she can reproduce. Social stability is where there’s social solidarity between the people and they work together to make society better. The reduction in the fertility as a population control policy is necessary to maintain social stability. However there are other policies
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America’s most prominent and problematic issue. Population growth‚ the U.S. population is growing by over 2‚000‚000 people per year‚ 240 people per hour‚ about half from new births and half from immigration. An issue that not only devastatingly impacts our economy‚ but is rapidly depleting our environment. Such as‚ the Central Valley Aquifer which loses the water equivalent of 1 Lake Mead each year. The underlying factor catalyzing the rapid growth in population was the swift progression in technology.
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Population and Family Planning Policy in India Population growth has long been a concern of the government‚ and India has a lengthy history of explicit population policy. In the 1950s‚ the government began‚ in a modest way‚ one of the earliest national‚ government-sponsored family planning efforts in the developing world. The annual population growth rate in the previous decade (1941 to 1951) had been below 1.3 percent‚ and government planners optimistically believed that the population would continue
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challenges resulting from a greying population An aging of population (also known as demographic aging‚ and population aging) is a summary term for shifts in the age distribution (i.e. age structure) of a population toward older ages. A direct consequence of the ongoing global fertility transition (decline) and of mortality decline at older ages‚ population aging is expected to be among the most prominent global demographic trends of the 21st century. Population aging is progressing rapidly in many
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Explaining Uneven Population Distribution The population of the earth is about 7 billion people but they are not spread around the world evenly this is called Uneven Population Distribution In this essay I will be explaining uneven population distribution using 5 different places as an example and giving reasons why they are not densely populated. In some parts of Algeria (like the Sahara Desert) there is not a lot of rain so the crops can’t grow and there wouldn’t be enough resources for everyone
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Topic “THE ROLE OF POPULATION DEPARTMENT IN THE CONTROL OF POPULATION IN DISTRICT BUNER” I selected this topic for research‚ because over population is a social problem‚ which affects the whole society. Pakistan is the hit list of this problem. The world developed country like China‚ Japan and so on‚ which can’t succeed to control this current problem. Introduction of population: Population‚ term referring to the total human inhabitants of a specified area‚ such as a city‚ country‚ or
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The Relationship Between Small Pox and Population Growth Small pox is a highly contagious and frequently fatal viral disease characterized by a biphasic fever and a distinctive skin rash. Since smallpox wasn’t eradicated offically until 1977‚ it’s fair to say that past generations had trouble overcoming this disease. Smallpox was the cause of many deaths that lead to vast populations losing the majority of its citizens and population growth hindering. In the 1500s is when smallpox made
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