Overpopulation Is Not The Problem

Human population growth was relatively slow for most of human history. Within the past 500 years, however, the advances made in the industrial, transportation, economic, medical, and agricultural revolutions have helped foster an exponential, "J-shaped" rise in human population (Southwick, Figure 15.1, p. 160). The statistics associated with this type of growth are particularly striking: "Human beings took more than 3 million years to reach a population of 1 billion people...The second billion came in only 130 years, the third billion in 30 years, the fourth billion in 15 years, the fifth billion in 12 years..." (Southwick, p. 159). As human population has grown, there has

Overpopulation is not an issue many people in developing countries face at this point in time. Put simply, overpopulation is “the condition of having a population so dense that it causes environmental deterioration, an impaired quality of life, or a population crash” (Merriam-Webster). It should not be taken lightly because it cannot be reversed in a short time period. Changes must be made gradually so that future generations do not suffer consequences that current generations have place upon them. It will be important to think about this theme in the future because of the issues it may bring up, namely food shortages or lack of other natural resources humans need to survive.

projected to triple by 2050. Additional studies shows that last year million of family and friends

A single codfish’s sperm cells were numbered at 150 billion. Leeuwenhoek concluded from his studies that there couldn’t have been more than 13.385 billion people on Earth.

Human population in general in the whole world is an expanding issue. Overpopulation occurs if the number of people in the world exceeds the carrying capacity of the region. Education, modern contraception, economy, fertility rates, poverty, technology and environmental sustainability all are everyday issues that come in account to population. James K. Arinaitwe, young man from Uganda personally experienced the harsh life growing up living each and every day working hard labor only to feed himself and avoid getting shot and killed. According to the article written by James, America is eager to form an ally with East Africa. James’ opinion in the article is that America is funding too much money to the government and fighting the L.R.A. Africa has many other more important issues, like education for example. The country would not have so many issues with rebels and and

In the United States roughly 22 percent of our population is under the age of 15.

1. If you really think about it, three billion people is close to half the world 's population.

Between 1400 and 1700, the global residents rose slightly from 300 million to about 1,2 billion people but then this figure dropped marginally to just under 1 billion humans. After a decline of 300 million people, the number of this grew sharply by nearly 5 billion, to exactly 6 billion people worldwide at the end of the examined period.

Many people might believe that global famine exists nowadays just in extremely poor places of the world and in not so high levels when indeed local level famines have erupted in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and parts of Latin America. Some 795 million people in the world do not have enough food to lead a healthy active life. That is about one in nine people on earth and the vast majority of the world's hungry people live in developing countries, where 12.9 percent of the population is undernourished. Which is even sadder is to think that actually the amounts of food to help solve this situation exists around the world and instead of been designated to contribute with the cause it is thrown to garbage. “40% percent of the food that is produced

In an excerpt, Entering a new world, describes an outrageous number of people who makeup the entire population on Earth. In Entering a New World it states “Our global economy is outgrowing the capacity of the earth to support it, moving our early twenty-first century civilization ever closer to decline and possible collapse” demonstrating how

There have been two major population explosions in the course of human social evolution. By the end of the Paleolithic period the world’s human population is estimated to have been between five and six million (an average of 0.1 person per square mile [0.04 person per square kilometre] of the Earth’s land area). Following the Neolithic or agricultural revolution, the population made its first major leap, reaching over the short span of 8,000 years around 150 million by the year 1000 bc (2.6 persons per square mile). For the next two and a half thousand years there was relatively little change. World population had reached about 500 million by the middle of the 17th century. During this time any tendency for population to grow was punished by

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

Overpopulation is a prominent controversial topic among society, in which some believe the exponential growth of humanity is detrimental to its future, whereas others conclude this theory is a myth due to human nature and resources. In Isaac Asimov’s, “The Case Against Man”, he elucidated the verity of overpopulation, emphasizing that the disproportion of earth’s carrying capacity and its resources will inevitably lead to humanity’s demise. Introducing the notion that humanity “is one enormous intricately interrelated and interdependent system” (Asimov 431) and using science, mathematics, statistics, and analogies, Asimov declared the sole solution of overpopulation is increasing the number of deaths, or

     This question seems to be question that is asked quite frequently lately. In the last two centuries, population has skyrocketed. In 1800 the world population was only at 1 billion, and today it’s estimated that the world population exceeds six billion people. With overpopulation, many problems have arisen. Some believe that overpopulation is the reason for world hunger, global population will reach crisis proportions by 2050, and some believe that overpopulation will bring the extinction of the human race. When one looks at the arguments that these people present, its quite overwhelming the amount of evidence that’s supports their argument. On the other side, the

Acclaimed hermit Henry David Thoreau once wrote that humans have plenty of space. “Our horizon is never quite at our elbows” (Thoreau, 49). But is this really true? The U.S. Census Bureau's international population clock estimates the global population at slightly over 8.6 billion