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    The world population forecast is shows not only approximately over 10 billion people going to be on the Earth after the 2050 but also the most crowded places on Earth. In order that, it would be needed bigger amount of food, water, living space, non-renewable resources…

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    Overpopulation can be debatable if it’s an issue or not an issue, but the evidence that supports that we as a species are stretching Earths resources to the brink. Humans have unlimited wants and Earth has limited resources, that being said as the Human population increases the demand for more resources increases. Humans as a whole have always been burning all sorts of materials as fuel; it was not until the Industrial Revolution…

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    was a good thing”, comes up with a serious environmental problem that limited resources are not enough for human beings to use in the future. As economy growing, environmental pollution always becomes the most serious problem in the world. Growing population requires an increasing demand of resource, and addresses an exacerbating of pollution, especially global warming due to increasing greenhouse gas. The author of this article, Sarah Conly, started this article with the latest news that…

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    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…

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    “Should everybody write?” This is the question and title of Dennis Baron’s essay about the writers of today compared to the writers of the past. He provides examples of the first instances of writing used for communication in presenting the clay tokens that merchants used for tracking inventory. He then discusses popular opinions about writing from historical greats such as Socrates and Mark Twain. Baron provides commentary on both sides of the issue and how the development of new technology…

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    The first claim made in “Future Humans” is that humans are no longer evolving. Ian Tattersal believes that evolution only occurs in isolated populations: homo sapiens are now so vastly spread among the world, evolution has come to an end. He also believes the more time that passes the more homo sapiens will begin to look alike. This part of the article also discusses how natural selection is no longer applicable for humans. Natural selection is essentially “survival of the fittest”, and now…

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    Thomas Malthus, “the power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man” (Brainyquote.com, n.d.). The historical pattern of growth of the worldwide population since our origin started out slowly. Homo sapiens began approximately 130,000 to 160,000 years ago (Annenberg Learner, 2016). In early society, diseases and climate changes kept death rates high and life expectancies were short (Annenberg Learner, 2016). Our population stabilization and…

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    Mobile Crane Case Study

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    1. Introduction 1.1 Background information The population of Hong Kong still rises and over 8 million people in the middle of 2031. That means the housing and transportation in Hong Kong are a large-scale project with large requirement. To meet the needs of Hong Kong people, the government has developed the infrastructure projects and building projects which are still growing vigorously. Almost every project included lifting operations, the lifting appliances and mobile crane becomes the main…

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    ‘Fewer people would mean fewer worries’, (Geer 2008, p.1) biologist Allen Geer contended that 1. technological solutions to environmental problems are inadequate, and 2. that stabilizing the population at present or lower levels is a durable and easy solution to implement. Therefore, stabilizing the population should be implemented as a solution to environmental problems such as climate change, either in tandem with, or in place of technological solutions. 1.1 In support of main premise 1 that…

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    The Future Of Food

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    even when the population continuously increases. This negatively impacts the industry because consumers then create an increased demand for this product, and the producers supply as much as possible. According to the “The Future of Food” article written by I. Y. R. Odegard and E. Van Der Voet it states, “Presently, a billion people are undernourished and the FAO estimates that food production needs to increase by 70% in 2050 to feed the global population” (51). The increase in population creates…

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