Overpopulation is one of the main issues that human is facing today. It is becoming a problem for people of all races, religions and nationalities. According to the BBC, there were approximately 7.2 billion people on the planet in the year 2016. However, the world cannot grow any larger, yet the human population keeps growing every year. We must slow the increase of our world’s population before our resources become insufficient and rapidly decreases our quality of life. The issue of overpopulation
economic problems, such as pollution, global warming, and overpopulation. These problems have taken a toll on the environment, and its resources. Although all of these issues have an impact on our environment, overpopulation stands to have the greatest impact on our environment, due to the large masses of people and the limited resources. “MegaCrisis? Overpopulation Is the Problem” is an argumentative article in which Gioietta Kuo, a scientist, examines the pros and cons of the overpopulation issue
Overpopulation There was around 3.5 billion people added to the population between 1950 and 2000.This was the fastest growing rate people have ever seen.”The world's population in the year 2006 was estimated to be over 6.5 billion people in the world strong and growing” ().The problem with so many people is that everything will start to overpopulate. Some solutions are that we can number a family on how much kids the could have. Another solution is that they could also try not to produce as much
“Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today.” (Jacques Yves Cousteau). What he means in this quote is simply more people create more problems in this word. Overpopulation alone can cause many complications like poverty, world hunger, lower the standard of living, cause a growing unemployment rate and drain the planet of its natural resources. These are all problems on their own but if traced back far enough can all lead to overpopulation. This issue isn't the
Overpopulation Issues Imagine a mom with five kids she's getting paid minimum wage and she can barely feed her kids, lives in a small apartment with one bedroom and is a single mother she can never go to sleep in peace knowing that her children will be going to sleep with an empty stomach. She also just found out that she has cancer and can’t afford treatment because she has too many kids and has to support them on her own. Population has been an issue people are having more kids that they can
year 2016. Why we should adopt a two child policy in the Philippines? First of all it creates a solution to problems arising from overpopulation.
Committee: ECOSOC Topic: Overpopulation Country: Brazil Background Overpopulation is when an environment can no longer handle the stress put on its resources by a society. Today the human population is growing close to Earth’s carrying capacity, which is estimated to be just short of 10 billion. As of 2015 the Earth’s population has been estimated to be about 7.37 billion, this number increasing each day. At the rate the human population is growing we should reach around 10 billion by the
population has been increasing exponentially which brings about the question of overpopulation and resource scarcity, especially in lesser developed countries. One of the major causes of this problem is poverty. This, in turn, leads to issues regarding resource scarcity like overcrowding, food scarcity, and water scarcity. CAUSE Poverty has led to overpopulation for several reasons. In 2012, world population hit the 7 billion mark, with
Project Title: Causes &effects of Overpopulation Submitted To: Ma’am Ambreena Mubashir Submitted By: Hafsa Sohail (019) (Semester # 3) Course: Population Geography Submission Date: November 28, 2016 Kinnaird College for Women University Lahore Acknowledgement: I have taken effort in this project however it would not have been possible
Mumbai in India, Istanbul in turkey. These are all major cities and are all overpopulated. Beijing's overpopulation issue is also linked to the UN goal of: sustainable cities and communities. Because Beijing, due to its overpopulation, is not a sustainable city and therefore, did not reach the UN goal of: Sustainable cities and communities. Other places in China also have the issue of overpopulation all because of a high chance to find a job, for example, Guangzhou and Shanghai are also one of the