Overpopulation Is An Unwanted Situation

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’,

The cause of human overpopulation is birth rates. The high amounts of birth rates are causing overpopulation to grow each year. Research shows in the year 2030, the population is expected to reach 8.5 billion people and 9.7 billion people in the year 2050. Developing countries is straining the already scarce resources. Intensive agriculture practices damage the environment through the use of chemical fertilizer, pesticides, and insecticides. As the population expands further, many natural resources such as fossil fuels, water, and forests continue to plummet. Lessening population will definitely solve many problems such as poverty, species becoming extinct, food shortages, water and air pollution, and even lower crime rate. High birth rates can be solved by spreading awareness, educate people about overpopulation, and increasing accessibility to birth control.

Human overpopulation occurs when the ecological footprint of a human population in a specific location exceeds the carrying capacity of the place occupied by that group. Overpopulation can further be viewed, in a long term perspective, as existing when a population cannot be maintained given the rapid depletion of nonrenewable resources or given the degradation of the of the environment to give support to the population. Overpopulation is a problem that needs to be solved.

Overpopulation can be defined as “the condition of being populated with excessively large numbers”. In general, overpopulation is detrimental to society and environment. It creates problems such as shortage of housings and public facilities, high rents, and pollution. Therefore, slowing down or regulating the growth of population highly important for preventing the aforesaid problems. In the long run, it is evident that overpopulation will further decrease the quality of people’s lives and drain cities of their resources.

With the introduction of agricultural and the rise of the Industrial Revolution, living standards have been elevated, while epidemics and famine have been diminished (prb.org). Ever since the 18th century, the human race has only continued to make improvements. For example, in the medical field. The creation of vaccines, medicine, and an increased knowledge of the spread of diseases have all helped to eliminate common causes of death, leading to overpopulation. Not only is overpopulation caused by an accelerated number of births, but it is also due to a decrease in the number of deaths, with 360,000 people are being born every day and only 151,600 deaths a day

All over the world, the human population fluctuates throughout each country due to several different factors. Some of the factors that can lead to an increase or decrease in population include industrialization, economic instability, poverty, laws, disease, resource destruction, sanitation, natural disasters, birth control, and access to education (Class notes). Although population decline is possible and relevant in some countries, the more important issue facing many countries today is overpopulation. Some over population problems include decreases in food sources, housing needs, land, increase in distribution problems, decrease in job availability, and poor health care environment (HowMany.org, 2014). One important question related to controlling

Junior Thesis: Effects of Overpopulation and How to Solve It Society includes both good and bad elements that make society better or worse. People in society all hates problems that occur in the society. Sadly, there are many problems the society may face today and people in the society may realize these problems too. The terrible conflicts in the society can lead to destruction to the economic and social life.

The expansion and development in all of the earth’s climate zones and habitats, as well as modern agriculture’s ability to grow more food for each unit of farmed land, play an important role in the population growth. Socioeconomic factors such as, healthcare, culture, family structure, marriage and social status also influences population growth, are contributors to population size increases through birth rate, as well as, decreases through the death rate. This imbalance of population equilibrium is a result of improved sanitation and health care, and the development of antibiotics and vaccines for the control of infectious diseases ultimately resulting in population death rates dropping.

There are many articles and newspapers about how bad the world is becoming overpopulated. The overpopulation of humans and animals is a constant threat to people way of life on earth. Monbiot states, “The growth in human numbers, they say, is our foremost environmental threat” (Monbiot 1). Suggestions for extending women’s reproductive choices should be made, and the world population would drop dramatically because of this. George states, “If this need were answered, the impact of population growth would be significant, though not decisive: the annual growth rate of 83 million would be reduced to 62 million” (Monbiot 1). Because the population of the world is increasing drastically, many problems are created and produces many effects.

Demographic studies will vary depending on the mortality and fertility of the population. Our textbook defines three important terms regarding fertility. They were fertility which is the incidence of childbearing in a country’s population; fecundity which is a maximum possible childbearing and is reduced by cultural norms, finances, and personal choice; and crude birth which is the number of live births in a given year for every 1,000 people in a population (Macionis, p. 580). Also, the author explained the terms of mortality and crude death rate. Which are the opposite of fertility.

Due to our focus on fertility, assigning a proper definition becomes paramount to studying how this demographic element changed the population and what the influences on fertility were. Fertility represents more than solely the birth rate, it is the average number of children that would be born to a woman in her lifetime. Alternatively there is the gross reproduction rate (GRR) which measures the average number of daughters a woman would conceive in her fertile years. For the purposes of this research we will focus on the gross reproduction rate as our main unit of fertility for two reasons. First, the majority of publications use this as a measure of fertility and second, because it is superior to the crude rates due to it’s assimilation of age structure. With regards to any mention of mortality, the generally accepted unit of measure is life expectancy at birth (e0).

     The problem of overpopulation exists nearly everywhere, and if it does not currently exist, it will in the near future. People are having several children, and that is greatly exceeding the death rate. This problem is especially apparent in South Asia, and it is causing several problems such as famine, epidemic, overcrowding, etc.

First, is the world really overpopulated or is it a myth? The world’s population advanced to closely 6.4 billion, in 2004. For example, over 1.2 billion people lived in developed world, however just above 5.1 billion people lived in the developing world. China being the most populated country with a whopping 1.3 billion people. Second, India had a population of 1.1 billion people. In addition, 293.6 million people within the United States. Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Russia, and Japan, behind along side, to complete the top 10 most populated countries in the world. “World population growth, expressed as an absolute number, is determined by subtracting the total number of deaths worldwide from the total number of live births. (Kaufman & Franz, 2014)” To be specific, population growth, occurs when the birthrate is greater than the death rate. Advancements in health services help people live longer today. Indeed, a factor affecting population growth. “The earth’s population will be controlled, one way

Overpopulation has been correlated to some of the most overwhelming problems in the world today. Population growth has been increasing dramatically for if humans have existed, but as of more recently have been increasing more dramatically. Many theorists such as Thomas Malthus and the Cornucopians made attempts to try to better understand the trend of overpopulation. Both had very different views towards if population growth was a negative or positive effect on consumption. The true question to both is whether overpopulation or overconsumption is a bigger factor that leads to the environmental problems that are present today. While it could be said, population is growing at an exponential rate, overconsumption is the true problem of what is leading to resource scarcity. Both problems can be assessed more accurately using real world market-based and governance approaches.

Human population over the past decades, have doubled, tripled and grown rapidly, thereby affecting every aspect of man’s existence. The paper examines the Demographic Transition Theory which is used to explain the population movement or process of transition from high birth rates[->0] and high death rates[->1] to low