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    and it brought to light some very interesting ideas. Brown touches on the taboo that we are all familiar with yet never seem to fully understand. It 's overpopulation. Quite simply put, it will destroy us if we let it - this is widely accepted. Brown 's solution matches his unhealthy obsession of Christian history; Brown 's solution to overpopulation posed through the antagonist 's evil plot, as if he the hero were afraid of the responsibility of dealing with the crisis, is a plague. Let that…

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    Overpopulation occurs when there are not enough resources on the earth to support its population. Most people thinks that overpopulation starts with birth of new individual. So in present it is one of the enormous problem that the world facing it. The human population is increasing rapidly because of many reasons, although the most significant increase has been in the last 50 years, mainly due to medical advancements, increases in agricultural productivity. An immediate cause of increasing…

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    Overpopulation When researching this project, I was really surprised by what I found. To me overpopulation does not sound as bad as it really is. In fact, I did not it had any affect on the environment. I thought that overpopulation only affected how much resources we have and it does, but it does affect many other things as well. It is like a chain reaction. One thing affects another thing, which affects another thing, and that thing affects another thing. First of all, what is Overpopulation…

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    Human overpopulation refers to a situation where the number of people living within a specified geographical area exceeds its capacity regarding the available resources. When the population exceeds the resources then, there will be some problems that range from social, economic and health. Today, overpopulation is a global concern, given the adverse environmental implications of the phenomenon. Recent demographical studies done in 2009 found the world population to be 7.1 billion people and…

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    people. That means that it took 200,000 years to put our first 1 billion people on this planet. Our next billion people came only 100 years after that. And now our world adds a shocking 1 billion people every 12 years. Overpopulation is term we use for the number…

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    Overpopulation is when the human population surpasses the global capacity (Conserve Energy Future). The human population is growing like never before. Every 12 years, one billion people are being added to the planet (Effects of Overpopulation on the Environment and Society). That makes about 220,000 people being born every day(Effects of Overpopulation on the Environment and Society). The advancement in technology and medicine has helped make overpopulation a problem. We now have medicine to…

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    by the year 2060, the global population would drop by one billion. By the year 2100, our global population will fall below three billion which would bring the human population closer to the earth’s optimum level (“Overpopulation”). Educating the masses on the seriousness of overpopulation will also help many people realize that the best thing to do for the planet is to have one or two children at most. However, there will always be greedy people throughout the world and therefore tax incentives…

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    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…

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    every day and the earth is unable to keep up with all our every day activities. “Overpopulation Is Not the Problem” by Erle C. Ellis, “Overpopulation Is Not the Problem? Really?” by Robert Walker, “Overpopulation is Still the Problem” by Alon Tal and “The overpopulation myth” by Fred Pearce all discuss their opinions on the current issue of overpopulation. Both Walker and Tal believe we should recognize overpopulation as a serious issue and should not take it lightly. On the other hand, Ellis no…

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    which was 7.2 billion just last year. The world 's population is quickly rising and the earth cannot sustain an infinite amount of people. The idea of population control raises a lot of questions throughout our society, and the common problem of overpopulation in a country is almost ignored when it comes up. What happens when the earth becomes so full of people that the earth itself is overpopulated? Do we start migrating to Mars and other planets or do we start controlling the population in…

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