Can The World Support More People?

As the human race continues to grow older the population starts to grow. Population growth is a change in the size of a population over time, depending on the balance of births and deaths over a period of time. For the world, population grows when the amount of births exceeds the amount of deaths. As shown in figure 1, the world’s population grew very slowly until about 1750 that is when the population growth started to increase rapidly. Figure 2 shows the growth of the global population from 1950 onwards, it also shows the projected population growth up to 2050. The global population is estimated to rise to approximately 9 billion people by 2050.

It is predicted by the year 2050 the world's population will have increased to over 9 billion people. (International...) If this prediction comes true the world will become overpopulated and cause problems like famine, the world already struggles with feeding the amount of people alive today. A second problem is housing, in underdeveloped countries there is already a struggle with giving people places to live, so companies clear land to build houses but that leads to habitat loss and animal loss. The third reason is disease, if a disease was started and spread when the world was overpopulated the disease could eliminate half of the human population.

According to Meder & Windelspecht (2014) the human population was approximately five billion people in the 1650’s, and by the 1850’s is doubled again. Now today we are estimated to have approximately seven billion people

World population and why has it become such a growing issue during the last 10 years

When I was in my Biological Evolution class, professor Dr. Matthew Terry started talking about how many people can Earth support. He said Earth population has grown dramatically over the past 15 years and it would continue to grow exponentially. For example, when I was born Earth population was of 3 billion people now we have 7 billion people. It got me thinking about why is our population growing significantly and how is this going to affect our habitat. Earth is now overpopulated and there 's have to be some measures. Would it be ethical if we try to control how many babies you can have or try to limit our population? How has technology influenced our population growth? What would be the consequences if Earth reaches its final capacity? How this is going to affect our environment and other species. These are just some of the burden questions I have for this topic.

Overpopulation can result from high population density. Only a certain number of people can be supported on a given area of land, and that number depends on how much food and other resources the land can provide. This can lead to environmental degradation.

There are lots of causes of overpopulation, but the ones that are the most concerning are decline in the death rate, better medical facilities, less wars, and immigration. Decline in death rate contributes to overpopulation because if there are less wars, diseases and other things like that there are far less people dying compared to people being born. Before many vaccines and when there were many wars, population was more balanced. Better medical facilities contribute to overpopulation by helping to decrease the death rate from illness. Less wars also help decrease the death rate. Immigration causes overpopulation because “Many people prefer to move to developed countries like USA, UK, Canada and Australia where best facilities are available in terms of medical, education, security and employment. The end result is that those people settle over there and those places become overcrowded”. Like Rinkesh said, people from less developed countries move to the more developed countries and they become overcrowded.

Overpopulation is a growing problem all over the world. This is a very important environmental issue and needs to be dealt with. This environmental problem is affecting many countries in the world, but mostly the poor and impoverished countries that don’t have the resources to help deal with these issues. It also affects the environment like plants animal life and air quality. When the population of people expands we need more natural resources from the environment, so we consume more then we can produce. This leads to the lack of resources in many areas. When expanding we create a lot of pollution in the air, water, and land. The pollution affects many humans health. Overpopulation is doing more harm than any other environmental issue.

The current population on Earth is around 7 billion people, statistics show that by 2050 the world will reach to about 8 – 11 billion people. If we look back on the progression of the world and its increase in population you will currently find that the world population is growing rapidly, this leads to the fearful effect of overpopulation. Overpopulation is the number of the existing human population that exceeds the capacity of the Earth. Progressively the human population continues to grow at a fast pace due the reduction of the world’s mortality rate. Our constant progress in medicine and the many scientific methods of increasing the human fertility rate have added to the increase of world population. This has taken a negative toll on how well the world will progress as a whole in terms of maintaining resources and sustaining economical needs. Many people today wonder how humans will be able to sustain and support a working life and the cost of living if the world’s population continues to grow. Studies show that the cause of overpopulation will lead the world into a battle for natural resources, possible involvement in war, and a high increase in poverty due to the rise of unemployment.

This rapid increase in the population is causing lots of environmental, economic, social, political, educational and health issues. People should be aware of the problems because if they did not then we will be facing many problems in future. Moreover, overpopulation can affect on our health because of the factories that release toxins in the atmosphere, which led to air pollution and land pollution. In addition, the environment will face many huge issues if the population kept increasing. Many countries have economic problems and some of them live in poverty all that because the sudden increase of the population. Eventually the over use of resources can harm us badly if we did not find solutions in the near future.

The global rate of human population growth peaked around 1963. However, the number of people living on Earth and sharing scarce resources like water and food has grown by more than two-thirds since then. Population growth causes multiple environmental problems, such as the clearing of rainforests, the loss of thousands of plant and wildlife species, an increase in greenhouse gas emissions. In our class, we addressed few philosophical positions and arguments about population and environment issues from each author. They tried to find out root causes of population growth and solve the problems behind. In this paper, I would like to discuss two main arguments of environmental issues that caused by population growth.

When the human population rises to an extent exceeding the carrying capacity, it is called Overpopulation. In an environment that is overpopulated the number of people may be more than the resources available for survival such as water, shelter, and food. Overpopulation contributes greatly to environmental damages, poor quality of life or disintegration of the population. This paper will talk about the main factors of overpopulation and the effects it has on the planet. Population continues to grow around 81 million yearly, a big contributor to this is decline in mortality rates medical breakthroughs, increased birth rates and education, this can lead to overcrowding and poor quality housing. Overpopulation is the basis of most problems we face worldwide today, like global warming and world famine. A major problem in cities is crime rate. Overpopulation contributes greatly to crime rates as overcrowding leads to poor living conditions, young adults in particular may take desperate measures and turn to crime and drugs. Overpopulation may be the single greatest threat to our planet, to the environment and to our resources. Many developing countries are experiencing this currently Every day it is a struggle

There are many causes of human overpopulation. One cause is advances in technology and medicine. This is because new tech saves lives of more people so the death rate goes down drastically. This ties in with declined death rate and increased birth rate. More people are overcoming poverty quicker too, so less people are dying in poverty.

Obviously the population of humans has been increasing ever since we began walking amongst this earth. Lets say you believe that population growth is inevitable. According to the Institute for Population Studies, the growth of our population is not inevitable, but an option. If we wanted, we can control the population. (York, 2015) The problem of overpopulation has arisen because we let the forces of

There are a few ways the increase in population can become beneficial. Personally with the population flux it can lead to the expansion of business and offer up a huge number of job possibilities in a world where it's tough to find work. In corporate/commercially it again allows for the introduction and expansion of industrial buildings and higher job opportunities. The advantages it has on the government would be economic growth. With a higher number of people it combines all great minds working together to lead to more innovations. Environmentally you will start to see the increase in non-renewable resources used and with this issue will arise the investigation into renewable resources to accommodate and even start to replace fossil fuels with things such as nuclear or solar energy. Finally with fire protection; having the continuous growing population were going to have to ensure that all precautions are taken to reduce the risk of fire. This could lead to new codes and regulations like mandatory sprinklers in all residential homes, making a huge difference down the road. However with these advantages there comes some disadvantages as well. In the same way as the introduction leads to new job possibilities it also leads to more competitors over the same job. If I'm not as qualified it will complicate my