The Earth Is Dying By Stephen G. Warren

The world population of 7.2 billion in mid-2013 is projected to increase by almost one billion people within the next twelve years. It is projected to reach 8.1 billion in 2025, and to further increase to 9.6 billion in 2050 and 10.9 billion by 2100. This assumes a decline of fertility for countries where large families are still prevalent as well as a slight increase of fertility in several countries with fewer than two children per woman on average.

Because a lot of families wanted their only child to be a boy, they would abort females during pregnancy. In addition to this causing loss of life, it made it so that there were more boys than girls. Document E says that "an estimated 30 million or more Chinese men will be looking for a wife in 2030 but unable to find one" (Document E). Also, because of the harsh restrictions, families in China would suffer emotionally from "not being allowed to determine your family's size, [or] being coerced into terminating second pregnancies..." (Document

Dena Davis in the 5th chapter of “Genetic Dilemmas: Reproductive Technology, Parental Choices, and Children’s Futures” explores the global attitudes, policies, and morality towards determination of sex. She begins with presenting empirical evidence of some preferences held in countries such as India or China where there is a clear desire for male children. This inclination is so deeply held that mothers can be socially and physically harmed when, by pure biological chance, they fail to produce a male child. Davis and others allow sex selection in these cases, purely in the interest of harm reduction of mothers and their daughters born into such a situation.

The health of our environment is vital to our own survival. If our planet is dying, then we are not headed in a good direction for our own health and wellbeing. Global warming itself is a fast-growing social problem and one of the main causes of global warming is

The world is being sickened by the needs of man in today's society. People, love to live in luxury without knowing the consequences of their actions. This is because man lives at a pace set by himself, and not one that is naturally set by nature. This is shown excellently in a quote inside of the novel Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. The Quote states, “the rapidity of change and the speed with which new situations are created follow the impetuous and heedless pace of man rather than the deliberate pace of nature.” The Earth is experiencing such rapid and disastrous change due to the wants of man. Man demands too much from the earth and not only is this changing the Earth, but it is also depleting many non renewable resources

The Earth itself is being neglected and abused by thoughtlessness and waste products of American Feed corporations. There is so much pollution that the atmosphere and Earth are being destroyed. This is a world hit by environmental disasters, the severity of which can only be read between the lines. There can only be synthesized clouds now that the atmosphere will not allow actual clouds to form and is not able to support natural weather patterns. This is a world where living creatures can no longer reproduce without assistance. And this is a world where startling

Humanity, as a species, has failed to keep our environment safe and sustained. As we advance technologically the earth is getting hotter, potentially so hot that eventually it’ll be uninhabitable(kind of like Mars). Humanity is at fault for this as around the time of the industrial revolution different fuels were being discovered and uses for them created. The use of these fuels (typically burning) cause greenhouse gasses to be trapped in the atmosphere, locking in heat. If humans didn’t have the unquenchable need for advancement, even at the cost of their own planet, we would have never had this issue.

In October 12, 1999, the world's population has reached to 6 billion people. about only 12 years later (October 31, 2011) the world has gone up to 7 billion. Many people on the planet are worried about the world population going too high. They fear that too many people would result in starvation and quick depletion of resources. Some people believe that we should have some type of law that would limit the number of children we can have in each family. Something similar has come true in China about 30 years ago. In September 25, 1980, China's One-Child Policy has been created. This policy keeps parents from having more than one baby with the exception of twins, triplets, quadruplets, and so on. Parents may also have

The insanity that plagues modern society, and more specifically, the United States, is that the majority of us have little or no regard towards our Mother Earth. This sheer ignorance and ethnocentrism is damaging to our Earth, but rarely do people choose to acknowledge it. Slowly but surely, our world is dying, and it due to the combined insanity of the human race, and the complete disregard towards our home planet. Global warming, unequal wealth distribution, war, etc., are all detrimental to our natural world. These are things that we have caused, yet many people turn a blind eye when it comes to this fact. We live in a bubble; many people do not dare to venture out of our culture’s way of thinking. The fact is, we are the ones that need

The WHO states that there are three core motivations for engaging in sex determination and sex selection which include “medical reasons such as preventing the birth of children affected or at risk of X-linked disorders; family balancing reasons where couples choose to have a child of one sex because they already have one or more children of the other sex; and gender preference reason often in favor of male offspring stemming from cultural, social, and economic bias in favor of male children and as a result of policies requiring couples to limit reproduction to one child, as in China.” In countries such as India and China, it is apparent that women can be harmed by sex selection

During the last 60 years the planet's well-being has been deteriorating . As Johan Rockstrom mentions in the video, we have reached a new geological era where humans have a huge impact on transforming the earth. Unfortunately, it isn't a pleasing transformation. Perhaps the need for change is good in a way, it leaves room for repair. Rockstrom speaks about four major factors which are: Human growth, Climate dilemma, Ecosystem dilemma, and surprise dilemma. These are all part of what he calls "The Quadruple Squeeze". Human population has now reached 7 billion and will continue to increase. This puts a tremendous weight on our poor planet. The more people there is the more damage we'll cause. We can’t just get rid of people and their ways.

Though others choose to ignore it, I acknowledge the fact that our world is dying and it is our fault. This is caused mainly by greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide. Humans create new, seemingly better, technology and pollute the world with them. People feel as though they need technology, need fossil fuels, need to drive large, destructive trucks. In order to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, we need to change our food choices and habits by buying local food, growing our own food, and eating less meat.

Opening/Attention: Have you ever heard or the saying “the world is coming to an end”? Has it ever crossed your mind that this statement could be true? Scientists claim every so often that the world will end due to natural causes. Even though years have passed and nothing dramatically has occurred, slowly and slowly, the world is dying. Everyday millions of animals are going extinct, due to natural causes. Global warming and climate change refer to an increase in average global temperatures. Natural events and human activities are believed to be contributing to an increase in average global temperatures. This is all because the world is increasingly changing, and one by one, nothing and no one will be left. Did you ever wonder about how the earth looked before? Did it ever cross your mind that earth could have been way healthier before the world’s population increased. I am here to talk to you about more interesting facts, causes, reasons to help and the future outcomes to understand that for future generations children won 't be able to witness what you have due to the seriousness of this issue.

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 Earth is a dynamic, constantly changing environment in which the hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere all interact. When one changes slightly the change is then felt through out the spheres. Humans need to understand that the change they cause can have a potential for a disastrous affect on the environment. From injecting the atmosphere with greenhouse gas, or deforestation, all the unnatural things done to the environment will have an unnatural affect that will have to be dealt with. We as humans have a moral responsibility to reduce global warming gasses by changing our modes of transportation, to stop deforestation, and increase government funding into research to inhibit global warming for