Preventing Population Growth In The United States

Over population is an extremely serious problem facing the world today. According to an article from Newsweek in Oct. 2009 called “Where do babies come from?”, today’s world population has reached over 6.6 billion people. Also the article mentioned that in 2009 57.4% of all new born babies who were born this year came from Asia alone. This is an issue because over population can lead to hasty consumption of resources. China who has one of the largest population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, has taken a stance against over population.

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

Probably the world’s largest overlooked problem. You may not realise it, but the scale of this is huge! Many people seem to think it is not a big issue, “we have lots of space” they say. But it is not the space that’s the problem. Overpopulation is the direct cause of poverty, global warming, animal extinction, air and water pollution, plant and animal habitat loss, disease outbreak, etc. and the list goes on. If we do not start making an effort to fix these, then our society may end up like the dystopias we see in the

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

Renowned environmentalist Lester R. Brown wrote about 10 Troubling Trends we’re seeing in in our environment and in our global ecosystem. His fourth point on his list, population growth, is one that has been an issue since the 1950s. As far as our population, urbanization, and industrialization goes, functionalists recognize that while it has been functional in creating a more effective, interdependent, and productive society, it has also been problematic. It has weakened social bonds and an absence of norms. We have began to lose our ability to function effectively. Even with our growth of large complex societies due to the population getting bigger and bigger. Brown’s ninth point on his list is the spreading of hunger. This is a direct

Even though America does not discourage females from getting pregnant since children are the future, it has become a problem. Most Hispanic families get as large as having five children or more. In the past this was acceptable and maybe even encouraged since we had the land, and necessary resources to provide for all of these children. It is not only the fact that these children are dependent on their parents until a certain age, but there were also the land and resources, meaning jobs, given to the parents so that they could provide for all of their children. Those times are behind us because now the resources are becoming scarce. For example, our land is becoming more concrete than grass or sand, instead of being able to enjoy a walk in an open field, we have gotten used to enjoying the big flashy lights from cities that built on top of those fields. The weather is becoming a mystery to everyone since the climate is changing in unpredictable ways by the fact that we are destroying, and changing the environment in all of the parts of the world. We are slowly destroying our ozone layer by having extreme amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. This is because all of the cars assembles run on natural fuel. Coming to our situation at hand so many cars are being driven because there are so many humans alive that need transportation. Overpopulation also came with the fact

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 main concern when population increase is brought up is “how are we going to feed everyone?” The answer to this question is not a new farming technique or a new genetically modified plant that grow at the speed of light. The answer is simply a change in our lifestyle and to stop wasting so much food. My mother and father every weekend go out and buy a weeks’ worth of groceries and a lot of times they buy too much of a food that we already have or they but avocados that will go bad by the time we need to use them. This creates so much unnecessary waste and we are all guilty of it. I once met a woman who lived in France and she told me about how every day after work she bought the groceries she needed for that night and the two benefits to this were that her food was always fresh and she never threw out food. To be honest I had never thought of only buying what you needed for that night it always made sense to me to buy everything at once and get it over with and not have to worry about buy groceries until next weekend. Little did I realize that this is the mindset that causes so much waste because we are simply unaware of the problems that we are creating. The combination of the food waste we throw out as consumers and the food waste that is thrown out by businesses across the globe is 1.3 Billion tons which is over a third of what the globe produces; this is a number that is much

“Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”- Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

It is predicted by the year 2050 the world's population will have increased to over 9 billion people. (International...) If this prediction comes true the world will become overpopulated and cause problems like famine, the world already struggles with feeding the amount of people alive today. A second problem is housing, in underdeveloped countries there is already a struggle with giving people places to live, so companies clear land to build houses but that leads to habitat loss and animal loss. The third reason is disease, if a disease was started and spread when the world was overpopulated the disease could eliminate half of the human population.

The term overpopulation is a undesirable condition where the number of existing human population exceeds the carrying capacity of the earth or a country. Three countries currently that are suffering from overpopulation today would be: China, india and the United States. Three major Social issues that contribute to overpopulation are Poverty, Immigration and the lack of family planning. Poverty may be the leading cause of overpopulation because these people are likely to be uneducated on topics, such as family planning. In many countries having a big family is somewhat essential because of gender roles and how a male is valued more to a family then a female. The lack of fertility treatment and education leads to overpopulation because both male and female are uneducated on the topic. Without exposure or education on how to prevent unwanted pregnancies it leads to overpopulation.

Food is one natural resource that sustains life as we know it. The Earth can only produce a limited amount of food. If the population outnumbers the amount of food that can be produced for the people, then the people’s life expectancy rate will diminish and the death rate will increase from famine.

There are many reasons for rapid increase of population. These include ignorance and responsibility of parenthood. The belief of more children means there are more earners in the family which means they can afford more things like food and bills. As well as that, there is a decrease in deaths because of the better medical care in hospitals and better hygiene. However, these reasons are also bad because the more people living in the world, the fewer things there are in life for young/other people. This includes: less food, fewer places to live, lack of natural resources and not many jobs available for them. As well as that, wildlife and animal habitats will be ruined as it will be even more crowded than it is now.

One of the problems facing our world is population. It began about ten thousand years ago when the humans settled and began farming. The farming provides more food for the people thus making the population grow. Now we are about 6 billion in population and in a few years we will be around 10 to 11 billion. Therefore, our population will

The world’s population today is around 7.5 billion people, and I don’t think it will stop growing any time soon. Scientist predict that by 2050 there will be around 9 billion people living on earth. A solution to this is contraceptives. We need to make them more affordable and accessible for everyone and everywhere in order to reduce population