Danger of Overpopulation Essay

Thesis Statement: The world's population growth has caused a destruction of the environment. I. Agriculture may look common and environmental friendly but as the amount of farm increased with the population, we had actually damaged the environment. A. Farming had caused soil erosion and degradation. 1. As we build more farm for planting usage, many forest had been damaged.It may further lead to soil erosion. 2. Pesticide and fertilizer used destroy the soil’s natural properties, not to mention…

billion by 2050” (UN News 2017). There are a few reasons why the world's population is growing so rapidly. People are living longer than at any other point in history, because of advances in healthcare, nutrition and access to food. Although, overpopulation means people can live longer because of modern medical technology improvements, it may also causes many issues such as economic, social and environment situation. Firstly, if population increases, the cost of living will rise because of the…

Population control is any method that is used to control the type and number of people. Over the past few years there has been a slight increase in world population. Overpopulation has always been a concern (Watson). Many people fear that there will not be enough resources to support the human population. Even with this knowledge, people still decide to have children. This is a human right. Every single person on this small planet has the right to bear children and this right cannot be taken…

Scientist and economist Thomas Malthus collected data that demonstrated that a population typically grows exponentially, while resources usually grow logistically, increasing slowly. Malthus decided that based on his observations about the growth patterns of humans and their resources, humans would overshoot their food or resources. When this happened, he stated that there would be a catastrophic disturbance and excessive dieback within the human population would occur to compensate for…

The first thing that comes to our mind when discussing the government intervention on population growth is always the controversial one-child policy of the People’s Republic of China, a policy imposed in the 1980s, aimed to stabilize the supply of food and water and improve individual prosperity (Moore, 2014). Nowadays, the focus of the world on population growth shifts from birth control to immigration control, as a surprising report showed that 80% of U.S. population growth comes from…

I read Life Boat Ethics: The Case against helping the poor. This happened to be one of my personal favorites of the essays I have read out of this book. The essay talks about how the world is growing so rapidly in some places and it has a lot different outlooks on the world compared to most things I have read. It talked about all the poor countries and poor people the world and that if they keep reproducing there will be so many people in this world that we will not be able to support all of…

INTRODUCTION The human population on Earth has been growing at an alarming rate bringing with it an ever growing need for food, energy and land use, amongst many others. At the same time, the list of animal species recorded as being extinct or on the verge of being extinct gets longer and longer. Is this phenomenon coincidence or are these two occurrences directly link to each other? This research task aims to investigate if there is reliable proof that human population growth and species…

A Tale of Two Societies “In order for someone to be transported into the future and die from the level of shock they’d experience, they have to go enough years ahead that a “die level of progress,” or a Die Progress Unit (DPU) has been achieved. The post-Industrial Revolution world has moved so quickly that a 1750 person only needs to go forward a couple hundred years for a DPU to have happened”(Urban). Over the course of history, society has been continuously evolving rapidly. Every year,…

Malthusian Constraints versus Market Incentives in Europe Developments and its constraints in any given population largely depend on a number of factors. These factors include population growth, availability of technology, economic activities, and political atmosphere, among others. Most of these factors are what contributed to the Industrial Revolution in Europe and lead to improvement in the living standards of the Europeans. There are two important theories that explain the constraints in…

A Brave New World Since the beginning of humanity population control has played a large part in every society, whether it be natural or forced. In A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the D.N.C. controls the population by using advanced technology such as contraceptives, cutting out female ovaries, and using hypnopaedic conditioning. The human population is growing at an exponential rate and due to that population control methods such as contraception, sterilization, and family planning are such…