In society we experience a lot of problems that could have devastating effect on our planet and our society. These problems can range anywhere from pollution, to dictatorships, to even over population; if these problems are not controlled they could end up to the destruction of the world or possibly even a dystopian society. We as a society take these real world possibilities into consideration and look for the outcome in the form of literature. We imagine all the possibilities of an extraordinary event or catastrophe happening that if, or when, the time comes the people of our planet will be prepared. Although we try to be prepared by imagining all situations that could possibly happen, literature cannot explain how to fix the problem but …show more content…
This can pose a problem for any society. This all resorts to over population as it said earlier “… parents broke Population Law 3903.” This means that laws were set in place to control a problem that could lead to the overthrow of a government. Is this why over population is a fear among people? Or is it used as a cover up for something bigger? Well there are two categories of people, those who believe over population is a problem and those who don’t. Either way a person may go ultimately over population laws will end up with some form of resistance against the oppressor in this case that would be the government. In Luke and Jen’s situation they decided to gather the shadow children from around their area and run a rally at the white house. Of course this was a bad idea. Luke was smart and ended up thinking ahead and realized that it was a bad idea so he decided to stay out of the situation. This was the wise decision to make. During the march and the rally on the white house Jen and her supporters were slaughtered down on the front lawn like nothing even happened. When Luke went to Jen’s house to investigate where she was he ran into her father, a member of the population police, where he decided to help Luke by giving him the new identity of Lee …show more content…
Now this leads to a whole other problem that can lead to a dystopian society which happens to be identity issues. Now that Luke is living under a false name he no longer feels like himself; yes he has been accepted into society but not for who he is. Luke is just filling in the space that Lee left when he passed away. Luke now has to deal with his new identity. This is observable in the story Among the Imposters. “Sometimes he whispered his real name in the dark, in the middle of the night.” “Luke. My name is Luke.” (Page.1) he tries to hold on to who he is as a person and this could destroy anyone inside mentally. And if there is enough people who deal with this type of problem it could lead to the formation of a dystopia. The story is also showing that if you try to escape reality you will be brought back in eventually. “He’d thought that coming out of hiding would expose him to the world, teach him everything. But being at Hendricks seemed just like another way to hide.” (Page. 79) Luke’s efforts were useless when he tried to show himself because he was now known as Lee Grant. These types of identity problems can cause lots of problems for kids in the novel or in our reality, if they don’t know how to be themselves then they will always try to be like somebody
The United States already had an overpopulation problem. Now that the population is growing even more we have more cities and states being overpopulated. According to Support U.S. Population Stabilization (SUSPS), if our population trend continues, we will be able to add enough population to create another New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, San Francisco, Indianapolis, San Jose, Memphis, Washington D.C., Jacksonville, Milwaukee, Boston, Columbus, New Orleans, Cleveland, Denver, Seattle, and El Paso - plus the next 75 largest cities in the U.S. - by 2020. According to Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), low-ranking countries have high population growth and high ranking countries have lower population
Throughout the last few hundred years, humans have built a foundation. Compared to all of the other animal species on Earth, humans are the most intelligent. We have built houses everywhere, developed a system to sustain ourselves, and now inhabit almost every piece of land on earth. Humans are smart, strong, and know how to fend for themselves. But, humans have a tendency to take it too far, and we have already done so. There have been numerous advancements over the past few hundred years which could ultimately lead to the downfall of the human race. The main issue is overpopulation due to the advancements in technology and general knowledge. The statistics from an article by Kenneth Smail show that “In the year 1900, there were almost 2 billion humans living on Earth. Throughout the 1960’s, the baby boom, there were 3 billion humans on Earth. Today in 2016, there are just over 7 billion humans living on Earth.” Currently, we have taken up just over half of all available land on this planet, and with increased amounts of people having kids, our population will only increase. Overpopulation is becoming a serious problem all around the world, especially in countries such as China and India. There are many global problems associated with overpopulation that are becoming more and more prevalent, which will all have dangerous effects on the foundation that humans have
Over time many texts have been created which depict future societies and the governmental systems that may exist. Generally due to the nature of the sci-fi genre, these texts portray a utopian or dystopian world. These texts provide what we may see as extreme portrayals of certain issues or events and what role humans play in the future
There is no questioned that the United States is overpopulated. We are consuming resources at an unsanctionable rate, with the population increasing, you start to see many difficulties our nation faces surfaces on a day-to-day basis. Whether its contamination, over-consumption, transportation congestion, full institutes, clinics (sickness), exploited social amenities, unemployment (jobs), collapsing structure, inner-cities undeveloped (poverty), and not enough resources. When you have war, corruption, and poverty in many other countries in the West people look for better occupation for themselves and their families. The US is the best country on this earth hands down. Immigrants come here illegally because the process takes too long with good
Literature has been such a captivating form of entertainment that can often best describe the age in various ways. Authors express the different scenarios for the demise of the world with what they believe to be possible based on the predictions from “fervently apocalyptic religions” (Apocalyptic Literature (2008, May 28) Britannica.com/art/apocalyptic literature) such as Christianity or scientific discovery. Their portrayals of possible world ending scenarios have been intriguing for the readers and their predictions have allowed their theories to be analyzed and added to the possible ways the world could end and what caused it to end. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Bradbury’s interpretation of the possible outcome of the world after
Population in the world is growing rapidly and civilians don’t realize the consequences of having too many people in this world. Just a few of the consequences are, homeless people, food shortages, and unemployment. With an increase of people, resources are quickly being used up. Should America try to mimic China’s population control law that couples are only allowed up to two children? Population control will help the world because it will eliminate food shortages, reduce the amount of trash, and stabilize the economy.
Our world has grown and evolved for millions of years. In the past, there was a time when offspring was needed to continue our legacy, but with many factors involved that changed. The chaos caused by the government: poverty, injustice, death, illness, a decrease of necessary resources, and a reduced mortality rate, which came with the improvement of medical facilities are only some of the factors that created change from the past to the present. The factor that had the most impact on today's society is immigration. People from many different countries came to one single country, this being our home, America. We are in the youngest country of all, and our image as a country portrays a place where opportunities are given to every family and individual
Another thing that countries could try in order to decrease the overpopulation is increase the focus they put on their women. Developing countries tend to have higher rates in childbirth the ration to parents to kids are higher. The more children that people have the more children that can go to work , bring in money or cook and clean around the household. Women and girls in these countries have little to no education. They have to stay at home and raise their children or help out with brothers and sisters.Women that live in countries like the United States and Canada have low birth rates and tend to wait until they are older to have children if they have any.These women are bought up to go to school and then further their education.After
The novel 1984 by George Orwell is a wide opening novel which showed how Big Brother had full control over his citizens. He created a sense of fear into the minds of the manipulated. Protagonist Winston Smith went through a series of challenges for try to go against Big Brother due to the fact that they used physical force and psychologically manipulated their citizens to gain authority against their citizens,
The problem that we are having here is rapid human population growth and without a doubt there is a problem with this in today’s society. This type of problem is a very complex issue. You see a lot of rapid population growth more so, in other countries and your are seeing it more and more in the U.S. it is linked to many problems, including poverty, hunger, high infant mortality, and inadequacies in social services, health services, and infrastructure. It would be a gross oversimplification to say that population growth causes these problems. Population growth could just as easily have been the effect of economic insecurity and poor health care. However, rapid population growth may defeat efforts to combat poverty and hunger and to improve
In the first part of the book, the author talks about how we are changing our relationship with the world, and these changes that the author discusses potentially widened our ingenuity gap. The ingenuity gap, is between our supply and requirement for ingenuity. Population increasing, meso scale, and emergent properties, they are the changes that people made to this world. However, how these changes widen our ingenuity gap? Population increasing has a big effect on society, environment and natural resources. Through them, population can make a huge influence on ingenuity gap; meso scale makes us unable to see the outside world and we cannot come up with the new ideal; emergent properties make the problem more complex, so it is becoming more
Imagine this, a dystopian society where the ground, everywhere, is black with asphalt, because all the forests have been cut down and houses cover the area. Inevitably, all animals have become extinct because their homes have been destroyed and the demanding population has consumed all natural resources. The only thing in abundance, mankind. The crowded streets swarming with people every second of the day and the overpopulated world itself seem like frivolous problems now, however, it is the unrivaled cause of everything. This problem must be solved, and the only way to do so, is for the government to enact new laws and regulations.
What is something that continues to grow every second of each and every day? The answer to the question is the human population. The current human population is around 7.2 billion and is expected to grow by one billion in the next twelve years. Also, it is supposed to reach over nine billion by the year 2050. This may not seem like a big deal, but what many people do not think about is how we are going to feed all these people. With the population getting this big we will not only need more food, but we will also have to find new ways to grow it. The reason being is that when the population gets that big, people will need to have places to live, and this will take away from farmland to grow on. With farmers having less farmland that means that they can not grow as many crops as they have in years prior. There is only one logical solution to the problems above. The solution is Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO). A genetically modified organism is where a scientist takes genetic tissue from one species and replaces it with the tissue of another. For example, they can take the genetic tissue from corn and replace it with genetic tissue from another plant like soybeans. They do this to allow plants to grow faster, produce more in smaller plots of land, help the environment, and to help plants thrive in certain environments.
According to Sigmund Freud humans must repress their base desires and freedoms in order to adapt to society, thus taking away happiness. This could since a functioning society’s main goal is to increase its population as rapidly as possible, so that more work can be done so that more people can be born and so on, and it achieves this goal in one main. The main way it does this is by protecting its citizens from threats, internal and external, which would harm the population causing a decrease in the potential population. Which end up restricting the population.
There are many factors contributing in the population explosion in India, and the increased population has led to many others consequences. Anyhow, steps are taken by the government of India to control this predicament.