Explain What Is Meant by “the Population Bomb” and to What Extent Do You Agree That This Bomb Has Been Diffused.

Many newscasts shown at the end of the video reflect the views of Pearce, who argues that, yes, although the population is extremely high and only rising, birth rates are leveling off and in some places declining. Some argue this is the true issue and not the “population explosion”. The rate of population growth, is in, fact declining in many parts of the world. This phenomenon, seen on the Demographic Transition Model, of declining birth rates, appears in urbanizing and industrializing parts of the world. This occurs due to many reasons, including access to birth control and education for women. Pearce’s argument has some merit to it, however, declining birth rates most likely aren't going attribute to a sudden plummet in Earth’s population and therefore have little importance when it comes to the environment.

This paper can be an excellent source for anyone researching into how to fight overpopulation. Hardin provides several other viewpoints that show he did not selectively choose evidence or distort it. Hardin proceeds from point to point logically which allowed the reader to comprehend the main idea effortlessly. The author glided to how the people of poor

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

The Population Bomb is a video created by The New York Times in 2015 to discuss a recurring issue throughout the world, the balancing of population. In the 1960's there was a major fear spread that overpopulation would lead to the demise of Earth as we know it. Some third-world countries, such as India and China, are still struggling with the threat of overpopulation.

Birth rates worldwide have been falling. In 2000, the birth rate was twenty two births per one thousand people (Indexmundi.com). This number is the crude birth rate and is used to gauge population

No matter how many people do claim overpopulation is not a relevant issue, it very much is because of the simple fact that starvation and pollution are very real and existing issues that are ultimately offset by overpopulation. In an article titled “Overpopulation Is Not the Problem,” author Erle C. Ellis uses the analogy “Like bacteria in a petri dish, our exploding numbers are reaching the limits of a finite planet, with dire consequences,” to argue that overpopulation is not a problem by stating the opposing claim. “We are nothing like bacteria in a petri dish,” Mr. Ellis solemnly asserts, “...these claims demonstrate a profound misunderstanding of the ecology of human systems. The conditions that sustain humanity are not natural and never have been. Since prehistory, human populations have used technologies and engineered ecosystems to sustain

Paul R. Ehrlich was a Stanford University professor who alerted people to the consequences of human population growth in his novel The Population Bomb, which was published in 1968.

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

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.

After reading Paul Ehrlich’s Population Bomb, I can understand that people were scared about the news that there will be famine and people are going to die. That type of subject would scare anyone and definitely cause the public to be in panic about what will happen. It's a serious concern and the idea makes sense that if food supply is not increasing, but the population is there will be a higher need for food which could lead to famine(Ehrlich, 1968). I believe at the time they thought that population was very high and people were concerned about how many people our planet could support.

In October 12, 1999, the world's population has reached to 6 billion people. about only 12 years later (October 31, 2011) the world has gone up to 7 billion. Many people on the planet are worried about the world population going too high. They fear that too many people would result in starvation and quick depletion of resources. Some people believe that we should have some type of law that would limit the number of children we can have in each family. Something similar has come true in China about 30 years ago. In September 25, 1980, China's One-Child Policy has been created. This policy keeps parents from having more than one baby with the exception of twins, triplets, quadruplets, and so on. Parents may also have

In the article Overpopulation Is Still the Problem, Alon Tal (2013) claims that overpopulation remains the number one problem facing the world today and discusses various problems and possible solutions. Tal unveils the falsely assuring news stories refuting overpopulation as a problem. He particularly dissects Ellis Erle’s assertions, in the New York Times, concerning China’s seemingly magical works of technology. Erle comes to the conclusion that China’s amazing technology has and will always be able to keep them out of any problems regarding overpopulation. Of course Tal is able to rhythmically rebut Erle’s claims by explaining that, “Anyone with a teaspoon of historic sensibilities about the country 's environmental history might want to mention its long litany of famines which occurred precisely because carrying capacities were consistently outstripped by a growing population”. Tal then goes on to explain other problems linked directly to overpopulation in China like the food crisis from 1958-1961 which led to the starvation of over 20 million people. He also discusses the Chinese one-child policy describing it as “tough medicine” although the application of the policy was flawed he depicts how it has prevented the next round of famines. Tal ties the China population problems into the rest of the article which is mainly about how quickly the world is growing and what we need to do about it. He presents distressing facts like 1 in 8 people in the world suffer from

The main message of The Population Bomb is to create a realistic conversation on our overgrowing population and their everlasting effects on a global basis. You can criticize the causes and effects that lead up to this problem but focusing entirely on them will only cause us to stray away from the actual problem of overpopulation. When The Population Bomb was written in 1968, there were roughly 3.5 billion people in world. In their revisit of their book in 2009, there were 6.7 billion. Currently in 2017, there are 7.6 million people living in this world. In the last 50 years, the world’s population has more than doubled from the original release of the book. The population has grown exponentially in recent decades and we know that in the modern era, overpopulation is a massive global problem. Hindsight is 20/20 which is why we must fix the problem rather than discussing the why’s and how’s. When the author first released this message, there were a lot of push back due to the predictive nature of this argument. We can never be certain of the future which is why it can be very easy to dispute information that seem unfavorable to us but we must logically look at the message ahead of us. In current U.S. society, the message in The Population Bomb is similar to the global warming findings that divide our political structures. The global population growth and rising overconsumption have led to devastating effects on our environment. According to James Hansen, a top NASA scientist

As advances in technology and medicine lead to longer lifespans and lowered mortality from disease, some people worry about overpopulating the earth. These people also argue that aid work will fuel the population growth and demolish one of the only forms of population control. Melinda Gates explains that as people work to provide more education and contraceptives to women in third-world countries, the birth rate will naturally decrease, especially as they worry less about having a child survive into adulthood (Rosen). Currently there is enough to sustain the population and its growth in the years to come; presently the issue is not the number of people, but rather, the distribution and effective use of resources.