Zero population growth

contextualised as a comparison between developed western civilisations and the rest of the world. The population of the UK grew to 64.1 million in mid-2013, this is a gain from the previous year of mid-2012 of 400,600 (0.63%). The UK’s population has increased by 5 million since 2001, and by more than…

there are about seven billion and three-hundred million people in the world. Around one-hundred and thirty-five million people are born every year and fifty-five million people die, therefore adding eighty million to our global population. From 1999 to 2011 our population grew by a jaw-dropping amount of one billion people. According to the United Nations our…

In An Essay on the Principle of Population, Thomas Malthus warned that the growth of the world’s population would exceed the rate of food production. According to his theory, population increases exponentially while resources increase arithmetically. In other words, the land’s resources would eventually be unable to support everyone due to overpopulation. In order to control population growth, Malthus claimed that “moral restraint,” including abstinence and birth control, would lower the birth…

Rogerian Argument There are 7.442 billion people living on this planet as we speak. That is a very large number. Now let me give you a couple more numbers to go along with it. 70 million people; these are the individuals who live with an eating disorder every single day. 36.7 million; these are the people who live with HIV/AIDS in the world. The authors of the readings for which this argument comes from all agree that one of the main reasons that these epidemics have become so out of hand is the…

Population growth and globalization are impossible to completely restrain. Exponential growth of the population has been happening for the last two-hundred years and growth will continue. In some societies, large families are almost required while in others the birth rate has declined. As technology increases globalization occurs at a faster rate. It is almost impossible to distinguish where in the world many businesses are based or where some products originate. Integration and growth are…

Abstract Overpopulation is an unwanted condition where the number of existing individuals population exceeds earth capacity. Overpopulation is caused by several factors. Decline in death rate, better medical facilities, more hands in fighting Poverty, technological progress in fertility treatment, immigration, lack of family planning are few of the causes which results in overpopulation. Growing population with each coming year has affected humanity in many ways. One of these has been loss of…

the world’s population suffering from serious hunger, but only 2% suffer from serious hunger. The fact is that food production around the world has increased faster than that of the population, with some of the biggest increases coming in the poorest countries on earth. In 1983, rice production in India had increase 3 and half times than that of the production in 1950. The fact is that population increase during that same time was just over one and half times. At the current rate of growth the…

According to Henslin (2009), demography refers to the study of the size, growth, composition and how human populations are distributed across the world. There have an increase in the world population at an alarming rate, bringing the fear that we may end up living in a place where there will be no space for enjoying life. The rapid growth of population was mainly attributed to the availability of food in abundance. People ate well, became productive and started multiplying at fast rate. However,…

ABSTRACT: Growing demand for agricultural production intensifies over the years as the population of human race escalates rapidly. Small countries like Singapore lacks areas of lands and hence, resources. With the advancement of science and technology, cloning and genetic engineering techniques have been inculcated into our world today. This paper will discuss about the favorable and unfavorable factors of both cloning and genetic modification in agricultural production and finally, conclude to…

In a world filled with nearly 8 billion people, there is the fear that lingers in many people’s minds about if the earth can support the ever-growing population. For people to understand the impacts that are had because of trying to create sufficient food, drinkable water, and shelter, they need to understand how having so many people on this planet is causing this to be a distant dream. This isn’t just a problem that those within the discipline of biology face, but something that every human…