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China’s One-Child Policy There are around 318 million people in just the United States alone. If you take time to look around you during the day, you can see the damage we have done, and what we will continue to do as the US continues to fill with more people every day. The fact of the matter is the United States of America is practically overpopulated. With every new person we lose recourses and cause pollution. China’s one-child policy helped them with their overpopulation problem, it was a good idea because single children that took an intelligence test did better than ones who had siblings, it also did and would have helped with overpopulation, and finally it helped with China’s environment. In document F it shows two different interviews

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