Speech On Overpopulation

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

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.

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.

     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.

Picture this you wake up one day and there are 1,000 more people living on your land. It’s a pretty large piece of land with enough supplies to support your lifestyle. However, with 1,000 more people living in that same area, it has become crowded and compact. The next day, 1,000 more people come to live with you. This continues to happen every day for many years, soon supplies start to stretch thin and space starts to be a rarity. Unfortunately, this is our reality. There are 7.4 billion human beings on the face of the Earth and just in the United States alone there are 323 million. According to some estimates, there are somewhere between three and seven times more people than this planet can possibly maintain over a long period of time. Each day the world’s population grows more and more everyday this is drawing closer to that limit. In the past, childhood deaths and short life spans used to limit the population growth. Now, thanks to improved nutrition, sanitation, and medical care, more of us are living longer and longer. This is becoming a liability, and no one can afford to ignore this expanding problem. The growing populations tend to threaten economic development and economic instability. The quality of life and the environment are also being hurt. We are slowly becoming a pollution to this planet in order to continue living prosperous lives we must find a way to slow down the population rate.

Overpopulation can result from high population density. Only a certain number of people can be supported on a given area of land, and that number depends on how much food and other resources the land can provide. This can lead to environmental degradation.

There are lots of causes of overpopulation, but the ones that are the most concerning are decline in the death rate, better medical facilities, less wars, and immigration. Decline in death rate contributes to overpopulation because if there are less wars, diseases and other things like that there are far less people dying compared to people being born. Before many vaccines and when there were many wars, population was more balanced. Better medical facilities contribute to overpopulation by helping to decrease the death rate from illness. Less wars also help decrease the death rate. Immigration causes overpopulation because “Many people prefer to move to developed countries like USA, UK, Canada and Australia where best facilities are available in terms of medical, education, security and employment. The end result is that those people settle over there and those places become overcrowded”. Like Rinkesh said, people from less developed countries move to the more developed countries and they become overcrowded.

The biggest fear regarding overpopulation is if there are enough resources to supply the unlimited demand of the human population. The real problem is not that the resources of earth can’t sustain the population, but that they are not used efficiently enough. The fluctuating population densities and the means to efficiently use the resources are some of the biggest flaws of the human population. When overpopulation is debated about the main concerns besides the plight of the dense populations are the birth rate, standard of living, and ecological well-being which are all on the low/negative side of any spectrum when comparing the earth in its entirety. Urban populations cost so much to the environment and is unlikely to change. The

Overpopulation is blamed for many of todays problems around the world including poverty, hunger, and war. In reality, overpopulation is not the issue. In fact, the term “overpopulation” shouldn’t even be used because it makes one infer that there is too many people on this planet. That, however, is not true. There are plenty of resources to go around and the population may actually be declining instead of growing. Overpopulation will not be an issue for the future of planet Earth because the poverty rate is decreasing, there is plenty of food for everyone, and birth rates are going down.

In today’s society there are many economic problems such as, pollution, water conservation, war, overpopulation, global warming, pollution. All of these problems have a huge impact on our society, and overpopulation affects the environment. The term overpopulation is defined as a situation in which too many people or animals live in a certain area. In our case it is when there is an excess amount of people on earth which are depleting the resources available. The world 's population will soon reach an amount that will not have enough resources to sustain life. The growth must be balanced to avoid a catastrophe that we will not be able to handle. Many social, environmental, and economic situations are developed by overpopulation or increased by the overpopulation of humans. The government throughout the world should assume responsibility in regulating the growth of human beings to avoid societies to exhaust essential resources necessary to live.

The main reason and causes of overpopulation and how it affects us is the industrial revolutions and the two world wars( plus the other little ones in-between including the cold war and the Vietnam war) . This brought advances in other fields that made it a lot easier for people to do extraordinary things. During wars people want to outgun each other, so they spend massive amounts of money on development. These technologies will eventually filter down into everyday use. A Prime example of this is the computer, it all started when the British tried to decode a German message and they wanted something more powerful than what they had at the present time. So the engineers went to work and they developed the first computer. It was huge but then everything filtered down to what we have now, phones and pc’s to name a few.

When the human population rises to an extent exceeding the carrying capacity, it is called Overpopulation. In an environment that is overpopulated the number of people may be more than the resources available for survival such as water, shelter, and food. Overpopulation contributes greatly to environmental damages, poor quality of life or disintegration of the population. This paper will talk about the main factors of overpopulation and the effects it has on the planet. Population continues to grow around 81 million yearly, a big contributor to this is decline in mortality rates medical breakthroughs, increased birth rates and education, this can lead to overcrowding and poor quality housing. Overpopulation is the basis of most problems we face worldwide today, like global warming and world famine. A major problem in cities is crime rate. Overpopulation contributes greatly to crime rates as overcrowding leads to poor living conditions, young adults in particular may take desperate measures and turn to crime and drugs. Overpopulation may be the single greatest threat to our planet, to the environment and to our resources. Many developing countries are experiencing this currently Every day it is a struggle

What is overpopulation? According to the Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, overpopulation is, “The condition of having a population so dense as to cause environmental deterioration, an impaired quality of life, or a population crash.” Just as the definition given to overpopulation by OECD, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, is,

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how overpopulation causes social problems. To do so you must take many things into consideration, such as different views of racial problems and conflicting definitions of a social problem. Social problems can be defined in many different ways. They effect everyone and some of us encounter problems everyday as a result of our race, religion, gender, or low income. Others experience problems from technological change or declining neighborhoods, others are affected directly by crime and violence in their own neighborhood, and sometimes definitions of social problems are changed by society because of changes around you. Finally in

First and foremost, the high birth rate in India is the main root of the overpopulation. The high fertility rate is due to the impecunious of the country. To counter this, the nations give birth to more children, hoping that there will be more income resources. Besides, the people count upon that the survivability of their children is low and thus they keep producing more children. Moreover, most of