Population.
Population, biologically defined as the summation of members of a particular species or group within a set region or community. For mankind, population has been the double edged sword and, the blunt shield that have allowed humanity to dominate this flying space-rock known as Earth. The population avaliable to a society meant the amount of workers which can gather, use, and produce various resources. This combined with the ability of humanity to use tools and technology, allowed human population to grow further more, feeding back into a positive cycle, eventually effectively eliminating natural predators within the habitat and regional communities of humanity, despite the weakness of humans as individuals. As with any population …show more content…
Food is important for it gives chemical energy to the organism to generate kinetic energy which can be used for living functions such as survival and reproduction. Humanity, as living organisms, abide by the same principles, thus as population increases so do the demands upon water, food, living space, and energy. Water, however, is not only consumed by humans, but also by the industries of humanity, agriculture, construction, and production and energy generation. The aforementioned all serve to pollute the water used, by chemical run-off from agriculture, toxic chemical waste as by-products of production. Furthermore, degradation of the environment such as CO2 emissions also increases temperature, melts glacial ice reserves, which diminish sizes of surface and ground freshwater sources. Every environment has a biological carrying capacity, or the amount of resource and energy within an area to support living organisms. The explosive nature of human population growth thanks to technology, healthcare, abundance of food, and lack of natural predators, allowed humanity of overtake the carrying capacity Earth and regional environment, a carrying capacity already diminished by degradation of the environment by unsustainable industrial processes which industrial countries and developing nations …show more content…
While global birth rates have been in decline since the 1950s, regional population growth, extension of life span, exploitation of environment, and increasing standards of living and demands, continues to degrade the environment to sustain the current unsustainable standards of living. As population density increase, the inverse of abundance follows, and thereafter increases competition. The first negative impacts that increase of population density, especially within metropolitan and urban areas, is the increased strain upon the infrastructure, and by extension, upon the regional Eco-system. As habitation requires land to be devoted to habitats, and not to production, the land that of which houses high population densities are unproductive in resources for living such as food and possibly water if the centre is not near a water source. Even as the high density area produces, natural resources, the natural environment becomes degraded by over-use by the denizens of the over-populated region. Thus, this increase in density requires resource supplies from more bountiful and abundant regions, the transportation, and consumption of delivered resources and in the process of deliver puts the regional infrastructure under-strain, and degrades the environment which
Population, biologically defined as the summation of members of a particular species or group within a set region or community. For mankind, population has been the double edged sword and, the blunt shield that have allowed humanity to dominate this flying space-rock known as Earth. The population avaliable to a society meant the amount of workers which can gather, use, and produce various resources. This combined with the ability of humanity to use tools and technology, allowed human population to grow further more, feeding back into a positive cycle, eventually effectively eliminating natural predators within the habitat and regional communities of humanity, despite the weakness of humans as individuals. As with any population …show more content…
Food is important for it gives chemical energy to the organism to generate kinetic energy which can be used for living functions such as survival and reproduction. Humanity, as living organisms, abide by the same principles, thus as population increases so do the demands upon water, food, living space, and energy. Water, however, is not only consumed by humans, but also by the industries of humanity, agriculture, construction, and production and energy generation. The aforementioned all serve to pollute the water used, by chemical run-off from agriculture, toxic chemical waste as by-products of production. Furthermore, degradation of the environment such as CO2 emissions also increases temperature, melts glacial ice reserves, which diminish sizes of surface and ground freshwater sources. Every environment has a biological carrying capacity, or the amount of resource and energy within an area to support living organisms. The explosive nature of human population growth thanks to technology, healthcare, abundance of food, and lack of natural predators, allowed humanity of overtake the carrying capacity Earth and regional environment, a carrying capacity already diminished by degradation of the environment by unsustainable industrial processes which industrial countries and developing nations …show more content…
While global birth rates have been in decline since the 1950s, regional population growth, extension of life span, exploitation of environment, and increasing standards of living and demands, continues to degrade the environment to sustain the current unsustainable standards of living. As population density increase, the inverse of abundance follows, and thereafter increases competition. The first negative impacts that increase of population density, especially within metropolitan and urban areas, is the increased strain upon the infrastructure, and by extension, upon the regional Eco-system. As habitation requires land to be devoted to habitats, and not to production, the land that of which houses high population densities are unproductive in resources for living such as food and possibly water if the centre is not near a water source. Even as the high density area produces, natural resources, the natural environment becomes degraded by over-use by the denizens of the over-populated region. Thus, this increase in density requires resource supplies from more bountiful and abundant regions, the transportation, and consumption of delivered resources and in the process of deliver puts the regional infrastructure under-strain, and degrades the environment which