The Importance Of The Human Population

7. Why is the “2 child rule” so important in terms of global population and its impacts?

Global population; it’s what has been mystifying and engaging our human geographers for centuries. In fact, the various stages of the demographic transition have shown what the population is acting as now, and how it will change in the future. Starting right here in the United States, we are having a very successful time maintaining a small growth population. Our 1.83 child per woman ratio is slightly below the zero growth 2.03, but our population continues to grow because of our governmental decision to approve immigration into the country. Because of this vital decision, it allows our population to continually grow. Now, back to the demographic transition stages. The United States is currently in Stage 4 along with many other Developed European

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

Overpopulation is an issue that many persons fail to bring attention, but don’t know the underlying effects that it can have on the United States itself. The hardships of overpopulation, affects the economy, the available of resources, and also the success of the future generations to come. Without much thought, someone may have children not knowing that it can affect the livelihood of the future generations who plan to land that job or that position they were aspiring to get. There are those individuals that continue having children, knowing that they are not financially capable of supporting another innocent child. In result this negatively affects the quality of living. If there are more births, it foreshadows that there are more jobs to be created, which causes employment hard to acquire, nevertheless, causing the economy to make a turn for the

The first step in Lester Browns “Plan B” strategy is that humans have to reduce the amount of CO2 emissions by eighty percent by the year 2020. Second, is stabilizing the human population by not allowing the total number to exceed eight billion. Third, he believes that we need to eradicate poverty on a global scale. The last step in this plan is to restore the earth’s natural systems including aquifers, forests, grasslands, fisheries, etc. Research has shown that investing in the education of women have an important impact on population. It has been shown that if women are educated they marry later and have fewer children. These fewer children are also likely to repeat the cycle of their mother and continue have a reduction in the population.

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.

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.

During the 1950s through the 1980s many were concerned with population growth and what it would do to our society and the planet in which we live. The concerns were so heavy that nations such as China, India, and Iran enacted policies during that time to curve over population. Historically human population control had one goal and that was to increase the rate in which we grow. The Roman Catholic Church has always opposed the use of contraceptives, abortion, or sterilization as general practice in regards to population control. This opinion of the church has largely shaped how we live. Because of this influence opinions of rethinking population control have been largely stifled. Harry Harrison’s Make Room! Make Room! Published in 1966, explores New York City in 1999. During this time an approximately 35 million people reside in the City. As natural resources disappear, Harrison explores the consequences of an over fertile society.

“Overpopulation is an undesirable condition where the number of existing human population exceeds the carrying capacity of Earth. Overpopulation is caused by number of factors. Reduced mortality rate, better medical facilities, depletion of precious resources are few of the causes which results in overpopulation.” In today’s society most Americans have at least five children, this can include one person who has five kids that was from failed relationships, marriage, or mistakes. The amount of children that are born per year in the U.S is 3,999,386 last year alone. The U.S alone has over three hundred million people, making us the third largest nations. The U.s is the only population that is experiencing significant population growth. Its population may double before the end of the century. If the limitation of how much children each American can have decrease to two children then we can put a control on overpopulation.

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

In Section 1 of Simon Nicholson and Paul Wapner’s text, Species Unbound: Humanity’s Environmental Impact, the authors bring significant insights into how humanity is producing a negative impact on the environment. Partly because “seven billion people” coupled with an ever-growing population are consuming scarce resources such as wood for paper/furniture etc. at rates faster than regeneration which is leading to resource depletion (Nicholson and Wapner 2015, 9-10). Furthermore, other key sustainability challenges are climate change due to the burning of fossil fuels and biodiversity loss, to name a few. Thus, humans are a negative impact on the environment in terms of not sustaining the Earth's resources, life, climate, and so forth. Since this effect on the environment is so profound some believe we are living in the Anthropocene- in which humans have become the central force in reigning supremacy over earth’s changing environmental conditions and resource depletion (11-12). The author’s claim that one way in which humans are altering the

In the late eighteenth century, Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus described how human population, when unchecked, grows exponentially while resources (specifically food) exhibits arithmetical growth (Moseley, Perramond, Hapkie, & Laris, 2014). Malthus primarily blamed the poor for high fertility rates and argued for the abolishment of all welfare, believing that if the poor succumbed to the negative effects of poverty, overpopulation could be stopped. While this may seem a distasteful solution to modern environmentalists, one cannot completely erase population from the environmentalist equation. Despite the technological advances that rendered much of Malthus' musings passé, one cannot ignore the idea that the carrying capacity of earth loom unknown

As much as we direct the environmental dialogue on fuel emissions and renewable energy, we shift focus from a topic that is mother to all of ecological issues: the earth wasn’t intended to sustain the human population as it is and definitely not as it would be according to most estimates. Although talks of curbing the population through widespread viral pandemic or mass extinction maybe a slightly radical yet efficient approach, a serious discussion on overpopulation and its ecological effects needs to be had in the near future. An article on the state of the world by Wuliam Halal and Michael Marien, titled "Global MegaCrisis: Four Scenarios, Two Perspectives," appeared in The Futurist magazine for May-June 2011. It paints an impending global crisis, a perfect storm resulting from a congruence of the problems afflicting the world today, including climate change, environmental destruction,

The number of Americans having fewer children is increasing, and the number of Americans that want one or no children has nearly doubled over the last decade. The two and two thirds child family is being phased out, and a new traditional family is emerging. Less children are being born, and there are more families with a single child, or no children at all. These people having fewer children do it for a variety of reasons, from finances to free time to saving the world. Yet no matter their reasons, there are positive effects stemming from this choice. Having fewer children increases happiness, leads to better reared children, and helps to save the world.

A little over two hundred years ago a man by the name of Thomas Malthus wrote a document entitled “An Essay on the Principle of Population” which essentially stated that there is an imbalance between our ability to produce food and our ability to produce children. He said human beings are far better at making babies than they are at finding food for survival. His entire essay is based on these two assumptions. “ First, That food is necessary to the existence of man. And second, that the passion between the sexes is necessary and will remain nearly in its present state.” When taking into account what is said in this essay, it is obvious that his original analysis of population has been proven right. Today, in the twenty-first century,