Danger of Overpopulation Essay

Although the modern world is considered as the most developed and the most secured due to science and technology, so many threats are still posing serious challenges to human survival. If war and terror, famine and hunger, flood and earth quake have always been perishing human beings from the mother earth, the issue of food security is also threatening our existence on this planet. The problem is increasing day by day because on one side the population explosion is on the rise, but on the other…

Many people walk around Earth every day not paying attention to their surroundings. People’s actions have outcomes, and many don’t even realize the outcomes of their actions. Earth is a planet with around 8 million people living on it, and some say a widespread problem known as pollution could ruin the Earth as well as harm the biotic factors living on earth. While many with the other point of view say pollution is not a risk and in some ways, it can help the earth. This essay is here to…

What is The Tragedy of the Commons? The Tragedy of the Commons refers to an essay written by Garrett Hardin; Hardin explains that humans will overuse a resource until it is no longer present, for short-term financial gain. Hardin points out many examples of this, however, he chooses to single out the fact that given free range of the land herdsman will almost always exceed the carrying capacity of the land, thus exhausting the land of its fertility. The Tragedy of the Commons is also shown…

unorthodox solutions to the problems which Quinn identifies. One problem addressed is overpopulation. Quinn leaves the solution up to the reader through a binary moral dilemma: sustain the excess population and maintain the problem, or stop aid the people, the poor, and let the populations die off. Yet there is another solution to sustain current population growth and stem the problem.The solution to overpopulation is to cease the segregation of urban,…

William Bernstein’s “A Splendid Exchange” is a sweeping narrative discussing the history of trade across the world. The book goes on to look at the future insights of the trade while taking into account the current globalization which causing havoc across the world. This book reminds people that the desire to trade is one of human’s oldest instincts and it is believed to have contributed to immense development. According to Adam Smith, considered the father of modern economics, the propensity…

community. As a matter of fact, the world problem that humans are facing now is overpopulation, and although written in 1993, the novel has dealt with the problem by controlling the birth rate. Whether it was ethical or not, the matter will be weighted, but the novel had solved it, the arcane world problem of overpopulation. Personally, I think overpopulation has led to other problems. But what exactly has led to overpopulation? “[...] is the difference between the overall birth rate and death…

Jared Diamond spends the prologue of his novel, “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed”, explores the demise of communities throughout history and how such a thing could occur. He believes, as can be inferred from the title of the book, that societies primarily fail as a result of the decisions they make in response to other issues. In the prologue, “A Tale of Two Farms”, Diamond presents his definition of a collapse, his framework for analyzing a collapse, and how he compares the…

In 1979 the Family Planning Policy was instituted by Deng Xiaoping as part of the Communist party initiative (Buckley 1). This policy, in effect, was instituted in an effort to limit married citizens to having one child only; this policy is also known as the one-child policy. The policy effected a decrease in fertility rate from about 5.8 births at its peak in 1960s, to less than 2 births in the 1990s. (Branigan 2). As a result, there was a dramatic decline in live births over the next 30…

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), implemented in September 2000 under the cooperation of all 191 United Nations member states are rooted in the concept of the eradication of poverty, and sustainable development. “The target of reducing extreme poverty by half has been reached five years ahead of the 2015 deadline” formally proclaimed Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of United Nations. However, a number of countries are shown to have not met their goals by the deadline due to high levels of…

8 REASONS WHY WE HAVE TO STOP POVERTY NOW Did You Know... About half of the entire people living on earth today are poor The percentage of people living in poverty South Asia Australia South Asia USA India Europe Canada Africa (Sub Saharan) South America 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 1. Because it is the Right Thing to do Okay, this was pretty obvious, but I just wanted to remind you of the fact. It just isn 't okay or humane that we feel alright about people dying of poverty when we have…