What will happen if our earth becomes warmer and warmer? Some people will say global warming, which makes the sea level rise; as a result of human don't have enough land to live on. According to the National Climatic Data Center, since the 1800s the global temperature has increased in 0.74 degree. It can argue that some people think the warming of the Earth is the consequence of pollution; however, the significant factor is that overpopulation. Overpopulation means too many people live in an area, and it has a deep impact on the environment. There are three main ways that overpopulation affects the environment: harvest, technology evolution, and education. One chief factor of overpopulation is that it causes harvest reduce. What …show more content…
The Earth was covered over 70 percent salty water, and some scientists think if they can change salty water into fuel. According to the US Navy, scientists have succeed to generate a machine which can change salty water into fuel. This is a significant technology to help people solve non-renewable energy problem. The final impact of overpopulation is an education. There is a remarkable thing happen in the world, many develop countries don’t have large population, and most of these countries people have higher educations. On the contrary, some under-developed countries have large population, and most of them have lower educations. Some under-developed countries people has impact on religion that they should have more kids. In China, one relevant reason for many Chinese have more than two children that is about tradition sense “There is strength in numbers.” This tradition sense has a very strong influence for the villager, because more than half Chinese comes from village. Many villagers are uneducated, and they don’t know what is overpopulation and contraception. In conclusion, overpopulation, then, has three main key causes in the environment. People destroy the forest lead to lost soil nutrient, and it is hard to plant crop without it. Next, technology progress helps human have a good environment to live, so most of people can live a long time than before. Last, many under-developed countries people has a strong 3 influence by tradition
In recent years, Earth’s issues have become increasingly politicized, publicized, and economically important. When you examine how the environment affects us and how we affect it, it’s easy to see that overpopulation is one of earths most pressing environmental issues.
Population growth has been running rampant in developing countries for the past century due to a lack of education, medical care, and gender equality. According to Jonathon Porrit, a British environmentalist and writer, “The combined population of the four countries [Ethiopia, Uganda, Somalia and Kenya] was 40 million in 1960. Now it is nearly 170 million [in late 2011].” “Overall, the human population has quadrupled in the twentieth century”(Cromwell 167) alone due to technological and medical advancements of the industrial revolution Because of the Industrial revolution, there have been many advancements in medicine, leading to lower morality rates in developed and developing countries alike. Developing countries lack the education and family planning that they need in order to maintain a stable and healthy population. Family planning is the act of” anticipate and attain their desired number of children and the spacing and timing of their births. It is achieved through use of contraceptive methods and the
Since the discovery that desalination could provide humans in California with clean potable water from the ocean could be very effective, it
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
Impacts on the Environment website). Our population is rising beyond the earth's ability to maintain a reasonable quality of life. This enlarged population has also increased the land uses, resource uses and pollution problems. A raise in land use
Major progress has been made in curbing population growth. The United Nations Population facts August 2010 states that there has been substantial declines in fertility, total fertility in the rest of the developing world(excluding the least developed countries) declined by about 50 per cent between 1970-1975 and 2005-2010: from 5.0 to 2.5 children per woman. Additionally fertility in the least developed countries dropped by 34 per cent since 1970-1975, from 6.7 to 4.4 children per woman. Bangladesh is exceptional with a reduction of over 60 per cent, from 6.9 children per woman in 1970-1975 to an estimated 2.4 in 2005-2010.
The process of desalination has been around for a very long time Greek sailors use to evaporate the salt water capturing the vapors and drinking the condensation of the newly filtered water. This creates new
The earth seems is drying up in certain areas of the world at the moment. We have already seen some of the hottest summers on record in the last decade. Summer 2016 was the hottest summer on record since the records were started back in 1880 (Doyle, 2016). The effects of this heat have manifested themselves as drought in areas of the western United States. One of those areas happens to be our home of Southern California. Water resources have slowly declined and conservation has been the key tool to battle the decline. In an effort to find new ways of conserving or creating fresh water supplies, technology has been called upon. The need for technology that can help us meet our fresh water demands becomes more important every day. One of the technologies that has gotten a lot of attention recently is desalination. In fact a large scale desalination plant was just opened in Carlsbad, Ca. The facility is capable of delivering 50 million gallons per day (MGD) (Bienkowski, 2015). Despite this impressive achievement the plant still only accounts for 8% of the total water demand in San Diego County (CDP, 2016). In this paper I will explain the process of desalination, identify a promising new technology, and provide a comparison of technologies.
Desalination has been used for hundreds of decades, Greek sailors heated water to evaporate fresh water away from the salt and other minerals, and the Romans used some clay filters to trap salt. Today's urbane methods still mostly use the concepts of distillation or filtration. The procedure of desalinating sea water to produce drinkable fluid has a long and gorgeous history. Nevertheless, the first significant modern desalination process to perform was multi-stage flash distillation type (MSF) it is a process that originally started during the mid-20th century in the USA (1955). Moreover, even though multi-effect distillation had been revealed and had the potential to be more effective than multi-stage flash desalination (MSF), it took a
The one-child policy began in in China in 1978 and recently, in 2009, China adopted a two-child policy that encourages families to have two children (BBC News, 2015). The purpose for imposing these ethical restrictions on a population is to sustain a population level so that future generations will not have to suffer from overpopulation levels, environmental damage, and a decrease in living standards (HowMany.org, 2014). The one-child policy helps to ease overpopulation problems since two parents having one child leads to a 50% reduction in that generation. Since China’s introduction of the one-child policy, there have been 400 million births prevented, which means that there is going to be more food sources, fewer housing needs, more jobs, and a better health care environment (BBC News,
Across the globe, saltwater accounts for approximately 97% of the water in the world, meaning that less than 3% of Earth’s water is freshwater, which is the only water on the planet that is drinkable. Of the 3% of water that is freshwater, 2.5% is frozen, and less than 0.5% is available to be used due to water pollution. Considering that the global population is projected to surpass 9.7 billion by the year 2050, the logical conclusion is that water consumption will increase exponentially over the course of the next few decades. With increased water scarcity coinciding to record high levels of water consumption, it is important to develop conventional methods of producing large quantities salt-free water before the natural resource of freshwater
The change of population can impact the world on many aspects, and usually it will create adverse effects. According to our situation lately, we have been suffered from overpopulation- one of the main issues that the human race is facing today. It is becoming a problem for people of all races, religions and nationalities. Our population is believed to currently be over seven billion people! That is seven billion people sharing the same planet with us and relying on the same resources as we do. When we reach our ultimate carrying capacity our population is guaranteed to decline due to lack of resources and this would be a bad thing for all of mankind, competing for the same resources generally causes conflict. Thus, whether our primary concern is cleaner air, purer water, the elimination of
The issue of overpopulation severely affects China’s society, and the need for population control is needed to overcome economic problems. The number of Chinese living in poverty are shocking. The causes of poverty are numerous, but its major reason is overpopulation. Over the decades, demographic trends in poor areas reveal higher fertility, and higher growth. Poor areas have higher rates of early marriage, early childbirth, and multiple children. These areas also have higher rates of disabilities and disease and lower levels of education which make people living in poor areas in disadvantage by knowledge about contraception. China has plenty of poor areas that need a better educated population, leadership is essential in China which is another reason to support controlled population growth by enforcing China’s one-child
birth regulation, China has still remained on top with being the most populated country in the world. India is only
Using tactics such as reverse osmosis and distillation you can make saltwater into clean drinking water. By pushing water through small filters you can remove the salt from the water giving you fresh drinking water. Many states and countries are also using renewable energy to help save energy while creating fresh water. “Israel invested in a large desalination plant in 2005 and will be producing enough water to supply half the country by the end of 2015” ( ¨ Is Desalination the answer to the global water crisis?¨) These large plants are expensive but are worth it to provide clean water. Though an expensive solution, over time we will be able to harness its true power and be able to provide a clean solution to the water