Why Is Population Control Wrong

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

Garrett Hardin, talks about population control, which is a big situation in many cases. He asks many questions, if it is morally right to change the way, society works. He talks about mostly about breeding rights. He questions, if those who over breeding are pushing their community to extinction. If a population over populates, the more demand they need for shelter, food and money. Which in some essentials, cannot work because of the area they are in. The more populated the more will starve and die. It is great to have more people in the world, but to put people at risk isn’t a question. Therefore, there must be control to keep issues from going out of hand.

Population management is dependent upon the carrying capacity of a population. The carrying capacity of a population is described as the maximum population size of a species that the environment can sustain given all necessary items such as food, water and habitat are available. Genetic diversity is a key value when discussing population management as the more diverse a population is, the more resistant that species will be to environmental changes and disease. Over population, exceeding that population’s carrying capacity can cause starvation, loss of habitat and death. Controlling food sources and other natural resources can help control a population’s numbers; which further increases the opportunity for genetic diversity among healthy species. Another way to control invasive species, mostly plant species, is via controlled fires; alternatively the reintroduction of natural predators also controls populations. As with everything in life, we can have ‘too much’ – finding the happy medium in the points above is key to successful population management. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission has a very detailed population

Have you ever wondered what the answer to world problems is? World population control is one option, but it is not a good one. Some say that it would help improve life, and would help bring balance to the world. However, I believe that population control would not truly help anyone. World population control is not the answer to world problems, for it would take away human life, the right to have kids, and in the long run would not help any living thing.

It controls population growth with the goal to lower population to a stable number. Alexandra Paul stated that “One of the advantages of having only a child in the family is the opportunity given to the newborn of having a comfortable life. This is because all the attention, love and financial resources of the parents will be enjoyed by the child.” iii. Analysis: Having population control children would live a better life due to the love they get.

In order for the Earth to sustain human life, the population needs to be controlled. There

The goal posts on this issue currently represent a clear winning and losing relationship. Holmes Rolston believed that eventually the population increase would result in humanity and mother nature losing. Rolston made this clear in his essay Winning and Losing on Environmental Ethics. He said “But when we come to our senses, we realize that this kind of winning, if it keeps on escalating, is really losing. When we get the goalposts in the right place, we see that we are headed in the wrong direction. Humans will lose, and nature will be destroyed as well.” (Rolston,

Imagine if humans were not allowed to have babies. This is what people in the story “The Giver” go through but do not even know it! In their life they have a laborer that delivers the babies and the people in the community (basically a suburb) have to sign up to parent a baby. What if people could not feel love. Population control involves things like abortion and adoption and how both can be cruel things but other times not. Places like china enforce it for food reasons and climate reasons. However, humans should be able to have as many children as they would like all around the world.

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

This issue, for all intents and purposes, can be analyzed through an understanding of the Tragedy of the Commons, a paper by Garrett Hardin exploring the relationship between the self-interest of individuals versus the best interest of the group. Hardin maintains that population must be curbed for a group and the environment they live in to survive. This is essentially the logic that Population Watch uses, which may be sound in its science, but deeply flawed in its social application. Hardin and Population Watch

Although thought to be “not a big problem” and “under control” by most people, pollution is making its way in being a serious and an unforgiving threat to society. Pollution a topic everyone hears and knows exists. What they don’t know is how serious of a problem it is already becoming. Many health issues are being reported now that are linked to air pollution and even the most severe weather places have encountered are linked to air pollution also. By society, not fully being aware of the true threat that pollution is making, it will only become a growing threat that they will be encountering.

As of today’s date, the United States Census Bureau estimated the world’s population to be an astounding number of 7.151 billion, at around a growth rate of roughly 81 million annually, or 1.2% per year. On the other hand, nearly 600 years ago, the population was around 300 million (according to the CIA). Ever since improvements in agricultural productivity and medical advances, population growth has risen drastically over the years. However, when studies proved that it could possibly lead to detrimental scenarios like environmental degradation and poverty, some countries began to establish population control policies. Population control is defined as ‘a policy of attempting to limit the growth in numbers of a population,

Speaking logically we should control the earth's population, but speaking in an emotionally friendly way we should not control it. Over 200 people died in Italy's recent earthquake which reached the magnitude of 6.2. With a density of 203 people per square kilometer, and Italy being the 23rd most populated country, Italy has pretty good population level, the reason why it is a bit overpopulated is because of the illegal immigrants

Population control is at its highest demand in all of history. We have a growing population and limited resources. Droughts, oil shortage, artificial food to keep up are just a few to name. Scientist debate whether we will be able to civilize onto another planet in our future. While moving to a new planet is a great idea, I think it’s a better idea to control the growth of civilization and the consumption of our resources on our own planet first. Besides, who needs seven kids in their family anyway? Why do we need to keep people who have lost all quality of life alive, while they continue to use up resources?

The World Bank says that overpopulation is the main inhibitor of development, because governments do not have the capital necessary to provide for large populations of people and work on capitalistic economic growth. This