Over the recent years, we have really seen how extensive consequences of overpopulation can be. Animals go extinct, while people starve and live in unhealthy environments. With a population now at about 7 billion people (in 2011), the UN expects, the population to grow even more with one estimate predicting the population will grow till about 16 billion by 2100. Can this really be true, despite those atrocious costs?
According to a video clip, from the BBC about overpopulation, planet earth reached the number of 1 billion inhabitants in the year 1804. Just a little more than a hundred years later it had doubled. The population reached 3 billion after 32 years, and the next 4 four billion took 15, 13, 12 and 12 years to reach, with the result …show more content…
This is due to global warming, which has been long underway. I remember the first time, I heard about global warming, when was quite young. It was in a cartoon where one of the characters, a high school student, had gotten an assignment from school to survey for opinions about the greenhouse effect. Even back then, it has been a problem for so long that it had become a cliché used in cartoons.
The many gasses emitted by cars and other unnatural manmade sources increase the greenhouse effect. A growing population will mean more emissions, and now we have global warming. This phenomenon is the cause of worldwide climate changes. These include drought, rising sea levels, wildfires and tropical storms. They will all have a high number of casualties, and as they are becoming more frequent the number of victims will rise with …show more content…
There has been concern about this matter in almost 50 years. Following the release of Population Bomb a best-selling book authored by biologist Paul Ehrlich in 1968, western experts and local elites ‘declared war on population growth’. The agenda was forced through, with a lack of empathy for those affected. The most effective population control was ‘the one child policy’ initiated in 1979 in China. This extreme measure has prevented approximately 400 million births. In one year, over 16 million women and 4 million men were sterilized, and another 14 million women had abortions. If you see this in relation to the numbers from the BBC video clip, the rate at which the population is growing goes from being exponential to linear. In other words, the number of years between each billion stabilizes, instead of a continued
According to a video clip, from the BBC about overpopulation, planet earth reached the number of 1 billion inhabitants in the year 1804. Just a little more than a hundred years later it had doubled. The population reached 3 billion after 32 years, and the next 4 four billion took 15, 13, 12 and 12 years to reach, with the result …show more content…
This is due to global warming, which has been long underway. I remember the first time, I heard about global warming, when was quite young. It was in a cartoon where one of the characters, a high school student, had gotten an assignment from school to survey for opinions about the greenhouse effect. Even back then, it has been a problem for so long that it had become a cliché used in cartoons.
The many gasses emitted by cars and other unnatural manmade sources increase the greenhouse effect. A growing population will mean more emissions, and now we have global warming. This phenomenon is the cause of worldwide climate changes. These include drought, rising sea levels, wildfires and tropical storms. They will all have a high number of casualties, and as they are becoming more frequent the number of victims will rise with …show more content…
There has been concern about this matter in almost 50 years. Following the release of Population Bomb a best-selling book authored by biologist Paul Ehrlich in 1968, western experts and local elites ‘declared war on population growth’. The agenda was forced through, with a lack of empathy for those affected. The most effective population control was ‘the one child policy’ initiated in 1979 in China. This extreme measure has prevented approximately 400 million births. In one year, over 16 million women and 4 million men were sterilized, and another 14 million women had abortions. If you see this in relation to the numbers from the BBC video clip, the rate at which the population is growing goes from being exponential to linear. In other words, the number of years between each billion stabilizes, instead of a continued