World population

enable healthy lives. I use the word “should” in lieu of “do” because in the world we live in now, access to a healthy life is seen as a privilege instead of a right. To dissect this topic further, a basic understanding of a “healthy life” must be defined. A healthy lifestyle is a lifestyle that, “...includes not smoking, eating a healthful diet, exercising, and maintaining optimal bodyweight” (Gorelick 904). Most of the world, does not fit into the category of being privileged, which ensures…

By 2050 the population of the world will be around 10 billion people. Our world will not be able to support that many people, it can't even support the amount that we have now. The gap between the rich and the poor will widen and there will be slum cities instead of suburbanized areas. These slums are found in areas with the highest populations like India, Brazil, and China. This issue will only get worse with our expected population quota. So this raises the question if population control will…

Hardin’s work, “The Tragedy of the Commons”, the population problem is thoroughly examined philosophically and logistically. The commons refers to a resource in nature shared by many. The tragedy is referred to an individual’s unlimited use of these resources resulting in overexploitation and the ruin of resources. Haridn’s four major assumptions in this piece guide him to come to an ultimate conclusion. Hardin’s ultimate stance is that the population problem will be solved by “relinquishing the…

We have all been in the same spot: our favorite book gets its chance on the big screen. The anticipation builds up as trailers are released and small bits of this fictional world is revealed, but when we go to see it, we see that the movie is in fact nothing like the book. They have changed some important details or just left entire facts out. Those changes can result in an overall tone shift from the book to the movie. All of a sudden, a character who was the lowly underdog is transformed into…

Before the Black Death plagued Europe during the late Middle Ages, the continent was already facing the worst. The “little ice age” had created colder weather leading to failed harvests and malnourishment, ultimately leaving most of the population either dead or susceptible to disease. In addition to this, improvements in ship design, though profitable for merchants, invited pathogen-ridden vermin to infect all they crossed paths with. This, in accompaniment with a lack of public health and…

The Scarcity Fallacy World hunger is a topic that has been the focal point of many economists and whether or not we have the means of feeding the entire human population. The general knowledge is that world hunger exists mainly because of natural disasters, increase in population, and not being able to produce enough food. Additional problems such as environment crises and global warming result in furthering the idea of food scarcity. If that is the case, then hunger exists simply because there…

communities. Just think, it has to start somewhere with someone; and that somewhere and someone could be you and me right here at Pfeiffer. If you try to start at the broad scale of the total world population, which is over 7 billion now, you might seek triumph but in the end feel crushed. You cannot make the world better as a whole starting with trying to change everybody but if you work towards spreading knowledge to the community they can help you make a bigger impact in other places to start…

Argument for Industrial Farming The world’s population is projected to reach nine billion people by 2050. More concerning is the fact the future global population growth is projected to be concentrated in parts of the world already experiencing difficulties feeding its current populations, including parts of Latin America, Africa and South Asia (Bowman 2007). Industrial farming and its enhanced methods are the only way will be able to feed the world’s population in the coming years. The…

There are many problems in the world but we must first focus on the question we are wondering about before making a final solution and hopefully solving or decreasing the problem to an appropriate level. The question is “Can we feed everyone equally”? “Everyone” is referring to the worldwide population and “equally” is focusing on sufficient nutrients and calories. Yes, I believe we can feed everyone equally but in order to do this we must focus and solve our poverty problem by improving…

recovery, poverty is still stubbornly high in America." Gongloff wrote. Today, millions of Americans are living on the streets with very little to live for. As the population overflows daily across the world, schools, workplaces, homes and the streets of the world will be with no room to breathe, to walk or even be alone. The population control may involve culling, translocation, or manipulation of the reproductive capability. The lifeboat that American ecologist Garrett Hardin explain that if…