Population Growth : The Importance Of Controlling Growth

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

Thesis: The topic of human population growth is an important issue due to its impacts upon people in developing countries, economics, religion, food production, and the environment; without any limitations, population growth can lead to negative consequences, such as famine and environmental destruction, or even positive outcomes, such as potential economic growth.

The indefinite growth of the human population, has monumental impacts on the natural environment, not only in the UK, but around the globe. Architecturally, the entire process of designing and constructing a building, both domestic and not, can lead to the rapid exhaustion of natural resources across the planet. Building with environmental design strategies in mind not only combats the impact we as humans have on the natural environment, but also has considerable economic benefits, due to lower running costs of buildings and advanced occupant productivity. There are also many social benefits, such as improved air quality which resultantly leads too enhanced health of a buildings occupants.

Population can be slowed by its numbers because as the population grows, limiting factors become more present. You start as a small population with good resources plenty of food, not very much competition for food and ect. Then your population growth grows and after so many generations you come into limiting factors that your population growth has become too large and the competition for food is higher, also less food to go around as we need to feed the total population and resources being used up with the increased numbers. This causes the growth rate to slow because the environment isn’t ideal causing more deaths. Then the stability of carrying capacity is thrown off with death rate possibly exceeding birth rates causing population to be slowed because of all these chain reactions occurring.

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).

Human population growth is becoming a huge issue in our world today. The population is increasing rapidly. The reason that it is becoming a concern is because it has affected the economic, environmental, and social aspects of our world. In the film Frontline: Heat, we can see how there might not be a future for our planet unless we are able to reduce the emissions and make our world a safe place. Not only for the present but also for future generations so that they are able to live long and healthy lives.

Imagine the earth as a rubber band and you put it around a roll of paper, paper being the people. The more paper you ad the more stretched the rubber band gets until it just snaps. Earth represents the food water and oxygen needed to live and when that burst, life ceases to exist. Population growth is due to three reasons, high birth rate, low mortality rates, and increase in food production. Populations numbers are more rapidly eating away at natural resources and in the future there will be no more to go around. China's idea is to make laws forbidding no more than one child. Couples should be responsible for the number of kids they have and not be forced by law.

Every habitat has something called a Carrying Capacity, this is the maximum population of any given species that the surrounding environment can sustain indefinitely. The factors that define the carrying capacity are water, food, shelter, and other necessities required by the species. Nobody is a hundred percent sure what the Earth’s carrying capacity for humans is, but many scientist believe the global population is nearing that limit. From the Stone age to about the 18th century the population had a slow steady growth rate. Then due to the sudden increase in food production and advances in modern medicine, the human population exploded from one billion at the beginning of the 19th century to the seven and a half billion we have today.

The world is growing at an extremely fast rate which will lead to an unhealthy place for people to live in. If current trends persist, there will be 2.5 billion more people on the planet by mid-century. It will be difficult to feed that many people. There are many problems with population growth and the laws associated with it, but there are also ways to counteract these issues. By spreading awareness, creating laws, and more family planning we can prevent population from growing out of control.

The human population is growing rapidly, and Earth doesn't have enough space for it. In 1967, Earth had a population of 3 billion, and only about 50 years later, that number had doubled into 7 billion. There are many reasons why our population is increasing so fast, in so little time, but I'll only go over two. The first, and foremost the most recognised reason, is the birth to death rate ratio. Every minute there is almost twice as many births then there are deaths; 200 births to 100 deaths. There is an estimated 350,000 born every day with only 150,000 deaths, making there 4 births every second and 2 deaths every second. Overwhelming right? Well the second reason which goes hand in hand with the birth to death rate, is, over the last few hundred years, we have become more intelligent, and more self aware. Our knowledge on medicine has grown like no other, and our life expectancy has grown with it. With many more factors modifying our population rate, these two show it best. We are living longer and having more babies, but soon we’ll need to stop.

Our planet’s carrying capacity for prehistoric Homo sapiens was probably near 100 million. However, without their Paleolithic ways of life and high-tech technologies, the population would be much less - possibly a couple tens of millions. The advance of agriculture allowed even larger population growth to occur, demanding for even greater land-use practices to earn more nourishment from land. At some point, their farming systems could have supported a couple billion people. The world population is currently almost at 7.5 billion, but with our technologies, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.S. has estimated that the people born after we reach nine billion could be sustained if necessary expenses in food policies and anti-poverty

New Malthusian’s idea of the future of the population growth is that it will continue grow in a expediential curve. Unlike the Malthus Theorem, they take technology advances into consideration. However, resources are unequally distributed and that production of food may still not be able to keep up with the rate of population growth. In the other hand, Anti-Malthusians believe that with the technology advances, earth will be able to keep up with the population growth.

Recent studies show that an estimated 6,775 people die a day in the U.S. and 3,952,841 babies being born annually. The population increasing so rapidly and increasing by 30% in less than 30 years makes resource’s slowly become limited, with a limit on food, water and the basic necessities needed in life it becomes one of the most limiting factors on population growth. Poverty countries have the highest rate of population growth due to human trafficking and lack of medical facilities. Some might agree that having more kid’s means a decline in money in the household but for these poverty countries such as Africa and Asia this is just the quickest way to get money from the wealthy. By trading or selling the children to work against their will

Throughout human history, population growth is one of the most important topics brought into discussion. Globally, there are about 7.2 billion people in the world, and it will rise up to 11 billion or more by the 21st century (Brown). When we look back in the history, population growth has been so slow as to be imperceptible within a single generation, “Reaching a globally population of 1 billion in 1804 required the entire time since the humans appeared on the scene. To add the second billion, it took until 1927, just over 100 years. Thirty- three years later, in 1960, world population reached 3 billion” (Brown 15). Then the pace sped

Manuscript received March 7, 2013; revised August 28, 2013. NICTA is funded by the Australian Government as represented by the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy and the Australian Research Council through the ICT Centre of Excellence program.