Essay about Can the World Sustain an Increasing Population?

While there are plenty of infants being born every single day, do you ever wonder how the world will continue to sustain the growing population? The population of the world is continuing to grow at a dangerously, increasing rate. There are already at least 6.5 billion people on Earth. According to, Overpopulation ‘is main threat to planet’,

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 population is an extremely serious problem facing the world today. According to an article from Newsweek in Oct. 2009 called “Where do babies come from?”, today’s world population has reached over 6.6 billion people. Also the article mentioned that in 2009 57.4% of all new born babies who were born this year came from Asia alone. This is an issue because over population can lead to hasty consumption of resources. China who has one of the largest population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, has taken a stance against over population.

Chapter one “Population” explains how population changed through the years and what caused the population explosion. One of the reasons was a reduction of death rate after World War II due to being able to stop some diseases. Also, people in less developed countries believe in having more children, often due to religion or tradition. More children provide more wealth. The chapter is explaining how population growth affects development. When the growth is to rapid it causes that most of the population in a country is nonproductive, therefore more resources are needed to maintain a country. On the other hand, if the growth is too low, also more funds are needed to support older part of population. There is no good answer to how fast population

Humanity as a whole is growing exponentially and this growth is anything but consistent. Many nations will be experiencing population decreases while other experience intense population growth. The impending impact of that fact is scaring a multitude of countries on the international market. In this essay I will answer three of the major pressing questions facing the world as they try to prepare themselves for this drastic change.

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.

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

Over time, human population has increased and unfortunately has caused a lot of problems to the economy as well as to the environment. Many of the issues that population growth has affected are climate changes, consumption and waste, family planning, poverty, food and hunger, and changes to the economy. According to data researched by the United Nations, “the world population will reach 8 billion to 10 billion by the year 2030” (Livi-Bacci: 1992:31-32 cited in Robbins, 2010:130). Eight to ten billion is a lot of people living in the world, which unfortunately might cause more problems than solutions to these issues. The book written by author Richard H. Robbins, Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism, includes an

The world population is only growing. The U.N. predicts that from today’s 7.5 billion we will reach 9.3 billion by the year 2050. (World Population Prospects n.p) In New York Times author Nicholas Kristof’s article, The Birth Control Solution, Kristof attempts to promote family planning as a solution to many of the world’s problems. He will do this by giving examples that an out of control global population causes poverty, conflict, and environmental damage; and that family planning would be a cost effective solution.

China and India are the two countries that have the highest population in the world. Both countries have realised that family planning and population control had to happen around the 1950's for India and the 1970's for China. This essay will seek to compare and contrast China and India, focusing on what the major problems facing both are, why have they both had to implement policies regarding population control, and the long-term and short-term effects that these policies have on the two countries.

Malthus failed to see that poor countries would have very high growing populations as well, because of the diffusion of medical technology from wealthy countries. This caused and even bigger gap in resources than Malthus had predicted. Malthus’s beliefs also have some criticism from a variety of perspectives. People have issues with both the the population growth and the depleting resources sides of Malthus’s story. Critics say that Malthus’s idea on resources are too pessimistic. Critics say that Malthus’s idea predicts that resources will forever remain the same, and not expand. Critics also do not agree on Malthus’s thoughts on population growth. Many people do not see population growth as a problem, instead, they see it as a way to help boost our economy, and produce more

Barry Commoner in “Poverty Breeds ‘Overpopulation’” begins his argument by stating that the population is clearly growing, but the resources we have are limited. Demographic transition is a characteristic found in Western states. If there is an increase in the standard of living than a population balance will occur, but this is not the case because of the death rates, birth rates, and infant mortality rates in poorer countries. These countries cannot afford education and new technologies that will help with this problem such as birth control. However, the increased standard of living is the first stage of the demographic transition.

Keeping the factors that decrease a population in mind, such as economic instability, poverty, natural disasters, resource destruction, and disease, is important when considering which countries should have to put forward these policies and programs to restrict population growth. The question of which countries should follow these solutions depends upon whether there is a major population boom that threatens the environment, economic stability, and social living conditions. If these things are being threatened, then restricting a population by means of putting forward programs and policies should be

Even if our world’s fertility rate is falling, our population will continue to grow from when the fertility rates were high. The populations momentum is tied into the Demographic Transition concept because it is based off of four stages. According to our book, the four stages all rely on the falling and rising rates of fertility and death. Population momentum falls under the third stage of the Demographic Transition because of the fertility rate falling. Even though the fertility rate has lowered, that generation will live longer, so our populations will continue to grow for another twenty years. By that time, the fertility rate could begin to grow again. It is an ever-changing transition. “Urbanization, modernization, and the empowerment of women push fertility rates downward, thus ushering in the final stage of the Demographic Transition. Put another way, the urbanization of society - if also associated with modernization and women’s rights - helps slow the rate of growth” (Smith, 2010, pg.

It stands to reason that the planet we live on has a finite limit of resources: water, air, and land. More people mean more industry, which means an increase in the resources we consume and the more emissions we produce. There is also evidence to support theories regarding human contribution to global warming and climate change.