Overpopulation In America

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America's growing population is becoming a serious dilemma, with the problems of not enough fossil fuels, food and space to keep everyone healthy and happy. Currently in America we have over 325,187,419 people and if we don't do something quick then we will not have enough room for people to live or enough food to eat (“U.S. Population (LIVE”). Many more problems will arise due to population growth, for instance many people will become homeless due to everything getting more efficient, especially with scientists creating more machines to do tasks for us. Most won't have enough jobs and many people will not be able to care for their families. Resources will run out sooner than later, not just in the United States but everywhere and what will we do. The Earth has and will always have limited resources and we need to ration our food while we can. This is a real problem most people wouldn't notice and those people are being blind to the reality that this Earth will not have enough resources to support many more people. the population we How many more people can the earth support? With the population growing, food is going to get harder and harder to find and to grow. …show more content…
These robots will be and are taking away jobs to willing people. Now without a job these people may not have enough money to even provide for their families and without money they will become homeless. If we do not at least try and limit the population then we will have too many people in America and not enough space. Then everything will be too expensive due to the fact that if we have more people, than the demand for goods and services will be greater causing prices to go up and most things may become unaffordable to

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