The Global Issue Of Overpopulation

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

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.

China is the world's most populous nation and its population has, on average, increased by over 25 people every minute, every day for the past 40 years. (Richards 5) For a developing country such as China, with 22 percent of the world's population and only 7 percent of the world's arable land, rapid and persistent population growth can contribute significantly to the nation's poverty levels and restrain its potential for economic growth. (Gu 42) China's one-child family policy was first announced in 1979. In a 1979 speech, Deng Xiaoping drew the first outlines of a policy to limit population growth, "Use whatever means you must to control China's population. Just do it." (Mosher 50)

According to the US census bureau, a birth is currently happening at a rate of 12 seconds. With the increase in population growth, this is subject to many economic issues as well as the limited amount of the Earth’s resources. This is why China adopted the one-child policy which prevents any one couple from having any children in the excess of one. If someone in China decides that they want to have another child, in addition to one it will be aborted. If the United States doesn’t take preventative action and educate themselves on the effects of having unplanned children, the government shall take on the control of implementing laws against have numerous amount of children. This contributes to the ongoing issue of overpopulation. If humans are

Real life examples of overpopulation are China, Brazil, and India in specific Guangzhou, China, Tianjin, China, Beijing, China, São Paulo, Brazil, and Mumbai, India which all have populations over 11 million. Practices across the world to prevent and educate on overpopulation include Offering sexual education for all students to prevent over reproduction, making contraceptives more widespread and easily obtainable, and creating more awareness for the dangers of overpopulation, these practices aren't always available especially in developing countries such as India, South America, and China. One popular policy in China is the One Child Policy where the Chinese government regulates the number of children parents can have with certain policies that give incentives to having only one child. Another example of over population is Chancellor High School which could benefit from its own one child policy. The tactics used in the movie are a little more harsh and inhumane than their real life counterparts. Early we discussed how we could easily reach a population size close that of the movie, there's no underlying reason preventing the creation of more crude and harmful methods to prevent or contain overpopulation in the

1a. China and Japan are both industrialized countries where population is decreasing; however, they are both decreasing due to different social, economic, or political factors. With 1.33 billion people, China has been one of the world’s most populous countries, however due to the overpopulation crisis; it caused implications and strain upon the country’s energy and resources. This called for the government attention to fix the issue of overpopulation by developing the “one-child policy” which limits couples to having only one child each. The overall outcome of the policy was to reduce population growth, increase economic growth, limit poverty, and to create better health for the citizens of China. Governments

Overpopulation is one of the biggest concerns of humanity’s. Overpopulation is a drain on natural resources, living space, opportunity, and the world at large. Mother nature cannot hope to provide enough sustenance for the land. Overpopulation is about us human, we are the smartest species on this planet after all; we make all the decision on this planet. At this world we don't play by our own rules, we play with by the rule that Mother Nature has created for all the species on the planet so we are all equal.

Throughout the last few hundred years, humans have built a foundation. Compared to all of the other animal species on Earth, humans are the most intelligent. We have built houses everywhere, developed a system to sustain ourselves, and now inhabit almost every piece of land on earth. Humans are smart, strong, and know how to fend for themselves. But, humans have a tendency to take it too far, and we have already done so. There have been numerous advancements over the past few hundred years which could ultimately lead to the downfall of the human race. The main issue is overpopulation due to the advancements in technology and general knowledge. The statistics from an article by Kenneth Smail show that “In the year 1900, there were almost 2 billion humans living on Earth. Throughout the 1960’s, the baby boom, there were 3 billion humans on Earth. Today in 2016, there are just over 7 billion humans living on Earth.” Currently, we have taken up just over half of all available land on this planet, and with increased amounts of people having kids, our population will only increase. Overpopulation is becoming a serious problem all around the world, especially in countries such as China and India. There are many global problems associated with overpopulation that are becoming more and more prevalent, which will all have dangerous effects on the foundation that humans have

The world’s most populated country, occupying a population approaching one and a half billion and contributing to approximately twenty percent of the worldwide population. A country named the People's Republic of China. During the late 1970’s, the overgrowing population of China was reaching one billion, causing problems for the society and government. Chinese citizens were living in extreme poverty and starvation. As a means to rectify these issues, the Chinese government introduced the One Child Policy. This regulation permits couples to have one, and only one child in order to diminish the extremely populated country. The One Child Policy is incredibly controversial, in comparison to many government law and regulation affecting moral and

The majority of the world’s population is under the World State, an eternally peaceful, stable society where the population has been limited to no more than two billion people. Natural reproduction has been done away with. Instead, children are created and

The world population is only growing. The U.N. predicts that from today’s 7.5 billion we will reach 9.3 billion by the year 2050. (World Population Prospects n.p) In New York Times author Nicholas Kristof’s article, The Birth Control Solution, Kristof attempts to promote family planning as a solution to many of the world’s problems. He will do this by giving examples that an out of control global population causes poverty, conflict, and environmental damage; and that family planning would be a cost effective solution.

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

Joe Bish the Director of Issues Advocacy at Population Media Center backs up our point. He explains that a lack of education and understanding of the effects of overpopulation which he referred to as “Scaffolding” has lead to the increase in population density. Which he explained that an understanding of family size is an significant factor if global population is to be reduced. This point is shown through the use of child tax concessions which provides education due to the reduction of age to claim child tax credit. So thus meaning parents who are thinking logically about their family size is a significant step in the right direction help mitigate global overpopulation. He continues to state that unrestricted access to modern birth control or contraception must be applied. This factor can be achieved through the use of birth control which has been shown to be cost effective. Joe Bish’s opinion reinforces the significance of our solution as it solves the leading causes of

Over population has been a global issue for decades. Many countries have attempted to battle this issue, but none as intensely as China. One Child Policy is a population control policy implemented by the People’s Republic of China .The One Child Policy is seen as being one of the most significant and talked about social policies ever implemented in the world and most importantly China. Although the One Child Policy seems like an extremely harsh and a controversial method, China’s One Child Policy has been proven to have a great effect on the lives of nearly a quarter of the world’s population for a quarter of a century (Hesketh). The purpose of the One Child Policy was to give China a solution to help the economy grow quickly and to gain a

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