A Common Fear Of Population Growth

Thesis: The topic of human population growth is an important issue due to its impacts upon people in developing countries, economics, religion, food production, and the environment; without any limitations, population growth can lead to negative consequences, such as famine and environmental destruction, or even positive outcomes, such as potential economic growth.

Population Growth is an issue that exists in today’s world that needs to be confronted before it becomes out of hand. The population itself has reached overwhelming numbers making it a problem that could turn to be dangerous. The amount of humans that the earth can support or the carrying capacity is slowly rising but at a much slower rate than the population growth rate. The increasing growth rate has its negative effects environmentally, agriculturally, socially, and economically and also has its positive effects nationally, and economically. The government is brainstorming and trying to come up with ways to decrease

The purpose was to limit the great majority of family units in the country to only having one child per family. China began promoting birth control and family planning with the establishment of the People’s Republic in 1949. By the time that this policy was stating China had almost reached its one-billion mark. First born children were often favored to be a boy. This is because the son would inherit the land and family name when the father died. This resulted in the rise of abortions for female fetuses. Efforts were made to families with a handicapped first born child. The government was allowing those families to have more than one child. Also families that had a girl for a first born were allowed to have another child. If the parents were both didn’t have siblings they were also allowed to have more than one child. Late into 2015, the Chinese government decided to put raise the one child policy to two children per family that took effect in

Carrying capacity is the maximum number of organisms that can be sustained by available resources over a given period of time (Di Giuseppe, 2003). It is affected by the availability of biotic and abiotic resources, such as prey and light respectively. The carrying capacity is always changing as the environment constantly changes.

China is the world’s most populated country with the population of 1.3 billion people. Since there were so many people in China they had to think about a way to control population so this is where the one-child policy was made. It officially restricts married, urban couples to having only one child, while allowing exemptions for several cases, including twins. This policy was introduced in 1978 and initially applied to first-born children from 1979. The policy is enforced at the local level through fines that are imposed based on the income of the family and other factors.

Basically, carrying capacity means the maximum number of a species that the environment could support; mainly calculated by food supply, diseases, and the chance of surviving. However carrying capacity is not a fixed number. The article emphasizes advances in technology; mass production would be an excellent example. Humans are able to produce large supplies of food, along with high in nutritious values and free from diseases (mad cow disease). Although humans are capable of increasing the carrying capacity, but the antibiotics/hormones that are fed to the chicken to grow faster cause the bacteria/viruses in the animal’s intestines to become resistant to antibiotics. From this evidence, it is reasonable that in the long run, bacteria/viruses would mutate to a point that could wipe out the entire human

China’s one-child policy was implemented in 1979 by Deng Xiaoping to limit China’s population growth, under the belief that overpopulation would inhibit its economic growth (History of the One-Child Policy). The policy restricted couples to only have one child, unless they were of an ethnic minority (Pong, 168). It was later amended in 2002 to include allowing two only-child parents to have two children, and allowed rural families to have another child if the first was a daughter (China’s One-Child Policy). On October 25, 2015, the Chinese government repealed the one-child policy in favor of a two-child policy because of the massive gender imbalance that it had caused (Taylor). Principally led by the much reviled establishment of the one-child policy, China’s abundance of males compared to females dramatically altered the demographics of the country, leaving millions of men unable to have a family, damaging the traditional cultural aspect of the Chinese family (Brooks). The disproportion originated from a traditionally boy-favoring Chinese culture and the future economic support a boy promised, while widespread use of ultrasound technology caused a decrease in births of girls (Brooks). Although successful in its goals of limiting population growth, the one-child policy, because of the Chinese cultural and economic support boys provided, had the unintended consequence of creating a gender imbalance, resulting in

Between 1982 and 1983 women who already had one child were compelled by the government to use birth control. Women who were pregnant and the government did not authorize it had to sustain an abortion. By 1982, charges of coercion against couples who had an unauthorized birth and a second child were heard, and punishment rather than incentives were being used to enforce the policy (Guo).

In some poor countries, people usually have lots of children in an individual family, and the children can cost a lot of money, due to education, medicine, and nutrition. The family don't have enough money or resources to pay for their children, and then the children can easily become criminals and cause social problems. Overpopulation in a city or a country can cause the people to be unable to find a job and end up unemployed. In the nineteenth or early twentieth century in Europe, people who can not find a good job, went to their colonies such as, America and Asia. Nowadays, the people who are in the poor country can only go to the city. Then huge numbers of people come to the city, and everyone need food, water, and a place that they can live. The needs of the city growing rapidly. However, the natural resources are limited in some countries like China, India, and Pakistan and they do not have enough high-quality resources to support their vast population. As people are using more natural resources, they are also increasing the emission of the pollution. These caused the environmental burden. And the environmental problem is related with the population increasing. As long as the population increases, greater environmental challenges are to

Last October, China ended its 35-year-old policy of restricting most urban families to one child. Commonly referred to as the "one-child" policy, the restrictions were actually a collection of rules that governed how many children married couples

The government leader Deng Xiaoping created the policy in 1979, to be combined and used with previous family planning programs. The policy and programs were supposed to decrease population size without causing too many problems to the economy. The way the government enforced these policies was by giving economic incentives to those who follow it. While at the same time putting harsh taxes and fines on those who violate the policy. China also made contraceptive widely available and would force women to have abortions or mass sterilization at times to keep the population size down. The policy was strongly enforced in urban areas such as Beijing, and Shanghai. while the policy was more lenient in rural locations. Parents in rural areas could have a second child only if the first child was a female. while parents in urban areas were not allowed to have more than one child regardless of the circumstances (BBC News, 2015). The diverse types of living are affected by the culture of the people who live

Initially, the Chinese government established a voluntary program in 1978 which suggested that married couples should limit their family size to no more than two children, preferably one child. However, the policy quickly developed into a single child per couple because of the large population base. It was not evenly practiced throughout the countrywide due to a lack of supervision force. Slogans such as “better and fewer births, happiness throughout your whole life” painted on the walls were seen in many villages. The policy was directed in 1979 officially by the central government to limit each family to one child only with some exceptions, however there were still problems with the enforcement

In the last few years that China’s population experienced huge increases and decreases in population size, Chinese governments provided family planning assistance for women and children . Not until the population increased during the early 1960’s did government officials begin to view the threat such a massive population would have on the future of the country. In 1979 China began to implement a family planning policy in response to social and economic troubles that plagued the country due to the rapid population growth as death rates decreased and birth rates continued to soar. The primary objective of this policy was to decrease procreation in the region by encouraging individuals to prolong engagements, limiting reproduction, and the promotion of an idealistic one child family. Government officials enforced policy regulations by imposing taxes on those who challenged the new policy and financial incentives for those who obeyed.

China has been experiencing a dramatic demographic transition since 1979 when the one-child policy was implemented. Due to the concern that population growth can pose a threat to China’s economic development not only in the short-term but over the long-term as well, the Chinese government adopted the strict birth control program that every Chinese family can only have one child, though some exceptions were made. Regulations for ethnic minority families were more flexible that they were allowed to have their second child. Furthermore, the policy was unevenly enforced. The birth control program was found more effectively in urban China, where supervision systems are more complete and people are more willing to limit their family sizes, than in rural areas, which were characterized by strong traditional agrarian needs. In general, the one-child policy hit the goal that China’s both fertility rate and birth rate were found decreasing year by year. However, alongside the declining fertility rate, new problems emerge, especially the increased share of the aged population relative to the total population.

China has had the new population control for almost 36 years, composed by the one-child policy and prohibited excess reproduction. The birth control plan has received praise on reducing the population but also received criticism over the late 20th century. In 1979, couples were forced to pledge not to give second birth or bear any more children (Feng, 2014). From 1979 to 2015, while population growth rate has reduced substantially, this implementation has been tremendously restructured how Chinese families value family structure, child preferences, marriage, parenting, living arrangements, and eldercare. This one child policy has transformed into a problematic system for the Chinese family to maintain their traditional value, and also introduced new problems to the family.