Population Growth Pressures On World Resources

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

In the status quo, population growth is inescapable. With the current population at seven billion and the estimated population to be ten billion in the year 2050, our basic needs will become harder to obtain. For example, water supplies are already scarce and countries in poverty do not even get clean water sources compared to the first world countries. In thirty years, water will suddenly not turn abundant because there is a limited amount of freshwater which is only three percent of the total amount of water. The demand for food is also going to

The article by Dennis Dimick brings up some very good points about the increasing population. He states that with our current population of 7 billion people, we currently do not have enough food to eat. With the population increasing day-by-day, we will face more shortage in the future. He also brings up the issue of natural resources. We are currently using so much natural resources that we will run out very soon. The use of natural resources tend to increase with increase in social standing (wealth).

population increase, now approximately 1.7 percent a year will decline to a little less than 1 percent sometime between the years 2020-2025” (Ehrlich). The more people added on to this earth the more resources we will have to use

It is no surprise that Global Trends 2030 labels the “growing food, water, and energy nexus” as a “megatrend” that will greatly impact the coming decades, saying that “demand for food, water, and energy will grow by approximately 35, 40, and 50 percent respectively” by 2030. The primary reasons are an increase in the overall population and a rising middle class. Food, water, and energy are critical resources around the world that are all being consumed at unprecedented rates. Which is why it is important to understand that food, water, and energy are finite resources, therefore we need to utilize them more efficiently and effectively. Resource management is a key issue facing the world currently and it looks as if it will be a continuing

Population continued to grow rapidly from the years 2001–2010 with little to no sign of slowing down. The Great Acceleration also notes the changes in the fertility rates that foresees the exponential population growth, and states that it will soon be over. This case study shows various graphs and they show that the resource use has continued to grow through the most recent decade, fertilizer consumption, paper production and water use on a global scale, have all risen, but one of the most important trends of all is the rapid rate of urbanisation. over 50% of the global population now live in urban areas.

Over seven billion people live on the planet Earth. That is four billion more people on Earth today than around 57 years ago (Smith 1). Over time, humans have had many technological advancements which increased the rapid depletion of renewable and non renewable resources such as water, food, and space. This, causes scientists to believe that the more people on the earth, the more we are going to run out of our resources. Although, many believe that Earth is quickly reaching its carrying capacity from the depletion of resources, that capacity is not within reach because the Earth has enough resources to sustain a much larger population than what is prevalent today.

Each year the number of human beings increases, but the amount of natural resources which to sustain these populations,

The human population of the Earth shows no signs of slowing down its rapid growth coupled with food scarcity as a result of drought and misallocation of resources by governments to provide a growing challenge to address the issue of world hunger, both within the US and worldwide. Over 7 billion people live on the earth today, and that number is expected to increase to 10 billion with the current growing rate of human population (Haugen 90). Being able to produce enough food

It was recorded in the year 2011 that the worlds population reached approximately 7 Billion. However, when studying the current birth rate, experts have predicted that by the year 2050 the worlds population will reach more than 9 billion. Leaving agriculturalist and scientist concern on how to help feed the over 9 billion that would soon populate the earth. This leaves many factors to blame for the contribution to population growth. The first factor would have to be the life expectancy rate of humans nowadays. Medical advantages and technology have made it possible for humans to live a longer life. The next factor, and most important is agriculture. In order to thrive in future generations, we must find a way to provide food to consumers without harming their health or the environment. That is why within the next 34 years we must produce twice as much food that we currently receiving in order to provide for our populations growth.

The Earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old and ever since, it is evolving and changing its properties. Some of the changes observed by scientists are cyclic (Ice age, Mass Extinction, etc.) and some unpredictable (Extinction of dinosaurs by asteroid, mutations, etc.). Throughout the evolution of earth from a heavenly mass of fire to today’s form, innumerable kinds of organisms have thrived on this planet, but none of them have ever influenced the planet as much as Humans are influencing, especially in last couple of centuries. Never has been such exploitation of natural resources and never was economy such important part of the society. Since industrial revolution, there has been rapid development in science and technology, communication, health, machineries, business models, consumption of energy, etc. The sense of security of life in terms of health, safety and luxury has been experienced by human beings like never before. This has led to exponential growth of population. Human population has thrived because of these factors in last 2 centuries. Before 200 years, global population was less than 1 billion, total it has crossed mark of 7 billion and increasing at the rate of 250,000 new born babies will join world population daily(Ourworldindata.org). As a result, increase in demand of food, shelter, resources and energy. Some of the following statistics are listed

The world’s population is anticipated to reach nine billion by 2050, having almost ninety percent of that growth occurring in the developing world. On top of that, the world’s population will continue to develop toward urban areas having approximately 70% living in urban populations by 2050 as compared to around fifty percent today. The world has faced an unprecedented rise in population during the past century having dramatic shifts in the production and consumption of food and for the most part has accommodated this population explosion, but with the changes in the consumption of meats in the world, the strain on resources will become more severe. In 1965, the per capita consumption of meat in developing countries was around ten

Between the years 2017 and 2050, “the United Nations projects that global population will increase significantly by nearly 2.5 billion people putting the global population at around an estimated 9 to 10 Billion people” (Jiang). In the near future it is predicted that the global urban population will nearly double if not possibly triple in size. Which will create a global imbalance in quality of life and put an even greater strain on our planet’s resources as we reach earth’s carrying capacity.

Can you believe that the global population has been grown up to 3.7 billion in the past 50 years (Baldini, 2015). It still increases at an extremely high rate, and will reach 90 billion in the year 2050. The population is not the only issue which has been increasing rapidly, some negative effects also have increased. In this research paper, I will discuss two major negative effects on the environment that have occurred due to the great number of human population which includes the changing of natural resources, and the effects of living on the earth.

The security implications for global resource decline and total environmental degradation are numerous and real. If the largest and fastest growing populations are in the Asia – Pacific region then arguably the risk of security compromise through to actual conflict on the basis of resource shortage due to human induced or natural degradation of the environment is a genuine threat to regional peace and stability. The question of concern is not just what are the security implications but importantly how can we equally distribute and correctly maximize the use our natural resources to sustain ourselves and to enable expansion and growth in our region that in turn drives forward global economies for the benefit of all human beings. We can’t irresponsibly and irrationally waste natural resources in a way that does little to maximise benefit. However we must also appreciate that renewable energies and genetically enhanced foods are not advanced enough at this point to be reliable or cheap enough to sustain mass consumption. This means that we must accept that resources will be used at the necessary rate and that the reality is we just might run out of one resource or another before too long if appropriate interventions are not implemented in a timely manner. This being the case we must do what we can to advance renewable energy and to develop technology for the mass