Advantages And Disadvantages Of Population Growth In South Africa

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

Over the past years, there has been an exceptionally large national increase which has caused several population issues. These issues include: homelessness, deforestation and more fields being used to make space for shops and houses disrupting the biodiversity growth. Problems like this are caused when there is an abnormal increase in the birth rate where more babies are born; this is also known as a ‘baby boom’. This can occur when nations have more children as a whole and events like this normally takes place after an achievement – an example being when we won the World War Two. The country was relieved that the fighting was over so their instantly celebrated which is why more children were born. In the last 50 years alone, the population has doubled showing just how fast the population is actually growing and even though it may seem fortunate that there are less recorded deaths, this makes the Economical

Some argue that the policy is beneficial to sustain the economy, society, population, resources and the environment. About four hundred million births have been prevented with the policy helping with the population problem (Wan n.p). Pollution and a lack of resources are some of the reason that people think the one child policy is necessary. Another reason that people think the policy is necessary is if the population continues to grow it would be harder for people to find food, causing people to starve. People see the policy as a good thing because it is helping the government by not using as many resources.

Overpopulation is an issue that many persons fail to bring attention, but don’t know the underlying effects that it can have on the United States itself. The hardships of overpopulation, affects the economy, the available of resources, and also the success of the future generations to come. Without much thought, someone may have children not knowing that it can affect the livelihood of the future generations who plan to land that job or that position they were aspiring to get. There are those individuals that continue having children, knowing that they are not financially capable of supporting another innocent child. In result this negatively affects the quality of living. If there are more births, it foreshadows that there are more jobs to be created, which causes employment hard to acquire, nevertheless, causing the economy to make a turn for the

I picked a ridiculously silly subject title for this rather serious post (that is one of the best and funniest Mean Girls quote though). On a more serious note now, I believe that contraceptions and empowerment of women will help with slow the continued population growth. Sex is a natural act for people all over the world. Sadly, not all women are not educated about contraceptions, do not have access to contraceptions, not allowed to use contraceptions and some do not support the use of contraceptions (which is their right). The textbook discusses the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) which "focused on individual rights, especially women's rights, including their right to make reproductive decisions" (410). The conference also discusses the important of educating women and educated women typically engage in safe sex and have more access to family-planning methods. Contraceptions and family-planning is still a prominent topic today in the United States; however, women typically in the middle east and third world countries have no real access to these preventions at all. According to a New York Times article on birth control by Nicholas Christof, "women in Afghanistan, Chad, Congo, Somalia, East Timor and Ugana all have six or more child each, the U.N. says. In rural Africa, I've come across women who have never heard of birth control. According to estimates from the Guttmacher Institute, a respected

Population control will help the world by eliminating the food shortages for the humans to eat and for the animals too. If there are less people on the earth, there will be enough food for everyone including the homeless people. America wouldn't have to worry about the bad weather for the crops to grow for people to eat. If the world can’t control the population growth, the farmers will have to go great lengths to produce more food in their fields. People don't have to depend on the farmers to provide them fresh food if there’s less people on the earth. If we have the two child per

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This policy has had more downsides than upsides. The one-child policy is not the only option to solving overpopulation. Alternatives such as educating people about overpopulation may persuade people to have less children in an ethical form. Another alternative may be for people to migrate to countries where population is low. With there being many alternatives, there is no need for the one-child policy to takes these drastic

While it is true that human population growth has a typically adverse effect on the health of the environment, it is both immoral and thoughtless to force birth control on those who wish to increase the size of their families. While it is certainly allowed to provide resources to women who wish to use birth control methods, shaming (or, the use of psychological coercion) is a blatant violation of the ethics and trust necessary to assist and stabilize a population. Population Watch should not be supported if they continue to use unethical practices such as forcing families out of their culture and traditions.

Major progress has been made in curbing population growth. The United Nations Population facts August 2010 states that there has been substantial declines in fertility, total fertility in the rest of the developing world(excluding the least developed countries) declined by about 50 per cent between 1970-1975 and 2005-2010: from 5.0 to 2.5 children per woman. Additionally fertility in the least developed countries dropped by 34 per cent since 1970-1975, from 6.7 to 4.4 children per woman. Bangladesh is exceptional with a reduction of over 60 per cent, from 6.9 children per woman in 1970-1975 to an estimated 2.4 in 2005-2010.

This is destroying the land which is harder to grow crops making us buy supplies from other countries. When the country started to overpopulate, the country has a rise of unemployment and this is because the country cant support all of the people and give everyone jobs which lead to many becoming homeless without the governments help. Because of the rise in unemployment there is a rise to crime as people will steal various items to feed their family and provide them basic necessities for life. Also as the population rises the cost of living does as well. The cost of homes, insurance, food, and healthcare. We have to pay to survive and feed everyone in our families. Another contribution to the over population is the increase and more knowledge of sicknesses and how to cure/ prevent them.

Joe Bish the Director of Issues Advocacy at Population Media Center backs up our point. He explains that a lack of education and understanding of the effects of overpopulation which he referred to as “Scaffolding” has lead to the increase in population density. Which he explained that an understanding of family size is an significant factor if global population is to be reduced. This point is shown through the use of child tax concessions which provides education due to the reduction of age to claim child tax credit. So thus meaning parents who are thinking logically about their family size is a significant step in the right direction help mitigate global overpopulation. He continues to state that unrestricted access to modern birth control or contraception must be applied. This factor can be achieved through the use of birth control which has been shown to be cost effective. Joe Bish’s opinion reinforces the significance of our solution as it solves the leading causes of

One of the Many reason that growing population will be a good reason because if their are more people this means more workers and then of course there would be more produce because of the working people ;however, there is also the fact that just because there is more people there would be less crop space ; so if there is less crop space that means less food which means more hunger which will lead to more crimes. Although, the other people in the world that

Family size is also a huge contributor to the population catastrophe. Generally, a family in this region is consisted of around five to six children (Bridge). The reason for women to bare so many children is because of the high risk of infant mortality. Since children’s health has improved in the 1980’s, women continued to have the same number of kids. However, more lived, which then pushed fertility rates even higher (World Religions, Environment, Development 233). In order for Sub Saharan to stabilize their flourishing

The World Bank says that overpopulation is the main inhibitor of development, because governments do not have the capital necessary to provide for large populations of people and work on capitalistic economic growth. This