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    Food Shortages According to Rajendra Prasad, “Improvements in agricultural technological advances in developing countries is the only true way of alleviating the threat hunger. The available agricultural technology will not be able to meet the challenge of the present population growth of about a billion additional mouths every 12–14 year without detriment to natural resources and the environment and has to be suitably modified.” The food

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    Jingjing Zhang Instructor Shay Tschirhart ENGL 1311L 13 November 2015 The Impacts of Population Growth Throughout human history, population growth is one of the most important topics brought into discussion. Globally, there are about 7.2 billion people in the world, and it will rise up to 11 billion or more by the 21st century (Brown). When we look back in the history, population growth has been so slow as to be imperceptible within a single generation, “Reaching a globally population of 1 billion

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    Proposal to Ease the Water Crisis in São Paulo Imagine yourself living a life where water for basic needs are scarce. That is what is happening in São Paulo, the biggest city of Brazil, and the most financially important city. After years with specialists advising about the water situation in Brazil, the catastrophe finally arrived. The water crisis came such as a hurricane, which when it comes destroys everything ahead. And because of the government’s negligence towards environmental matters, the

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    The Solutions to the Child Labour Problem in India Asma Almalki Inlingua Victoria EAP2 The Solutions to the Child Labour Problem in India Child labour, work that deprives children of their childhood, is considered a major problem in India currently. India, located south-east of Asia, is the seventh largest country by area and has the second-largest population, which is approximately over 12 billion people (International Labour Office, 2004). The problem of child labour is a serious matter

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    Hardin’s lifeboat analogy proposes an interesting situation. If a lifeboat with 50 people on board and a capacity of 60 floated past 100 other people in the water, who would we take, if anyone? If we tried to take everyone, the boat would capsize and everyone would either become stranded or die. It would lead to “complete justice, complete catastrophe” (Hardin 1). If we took no one, we would constantly have to stave off desperate people climbing on board and those who claim entitlement. If we decide

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    China 's One Child Police

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    Christopher Giles China’s One Child Police in A Nutshell Thursday, May 4, 2016 (Class) “It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, make up all together but a globule of blood or lymph in the veins of an animal, of a minute insect, hatched in a world of whose vastness we can frame no conception, but which nevertheless would itself, in proportion to some other world, be no more than a speck of dust,” Anatole France, The Garden of Epicurus.

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    POPULATION GROWTH AND URBAN ROAD EMISSIONS Toh Xinyi Cindi1 1Undergraduate Student, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, McGill University, 817 Sherbrooke St. W., xinyi.toh@mail.mcgill.ca Abstract This paper describes how world population growth is the most challenging factor in affecting urban road emissions. As world population grows, urban population has increased leading to greater demands for private motor vehicles due to issues like urban sprawl and the aspirations for owning

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    Growth of China’s Population Over Time: Will China Explode or Become Bankrupt First? Natalee Jamerson IB SL Math IA 24 May 2016 It is known that China is extremely overpopulated with its 1,354,040,000 citizens as of January 2013 and “ as of September 2013, that number had grown even further to 1,360,720,000”. There’s “363.3 people per square mile!” (WPR). I’ve been interested in the future of our world and what will happen as we continue to grow. Knowing that “China represents 19.48 percent of the

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    INTRO: 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

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    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

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