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    Overpopulation State of debate Should governments fine people who have too many biological children in order to reduce environmental damage due to overpopulation? Introduction If someone told your parent they were being fined by the government because you had an abundance of sisters and brothers, how would you feel? On the other side of things, what if you found out your brothers and sisters contributed to environment issues? Statistics draw to the fact that the world is becoming overpopulated

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    issue becomes prominent for all people. Due to the population increasing, resources such as food, water and fuel are becoming scarce. Overpopulation, defined by Merriam Webster Dictionary, is “the condition of having a population so dense as to cause environmental deterioration, an impaired quality of life, or a population crash.” There are a few causes of overpopulation, such as the declining death rate, better developed medicine, a lack of family planning and immigration. There is a recent decline

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    the problem that is growing amongst us. In some places on our planet earth overpopulation is already in effect, and the world’s population continues to increase. So what will happen when the world becomes over populated? Well, no animal species can survive without enough food, water, shelter and certain other resources, human being requirements are no different. However, a world where lives have been affected by overpopulation already exists in third world countries. So how do we stop this from happening

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    The question does not concern whether or not overpopulation is an environmental issue. The evidence is clear, the majority of researchers address this established issue with their own reasoning behind what the biggest cause or effect is. Overall, Hardaway (2014) found that around every one third of a second, the world creates room for one more human. Creating room for another person requires 3.2 tons of carbon, 2,000 square meters of fresh water, and 207 gigajoules of energy (Hardaway, 2014).

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    to 10 children in some cases. Traditional ways are also seen as a cause of population growth, with men having as many as 10 wives. Our biggest cause of overpopulation many have argued to be the lack of education, education on birth control, family planning and the impacts on the environment caused by growth in population. This issue of overpopulation in Africa has a huge impact on the country and its government to feed all these mouths, and often they rely on foreign help from the northern better off

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    In this essay, I will talk about the effects of overpopulation, and the economic, and environmental impact. One major effect of overpopulation, on the economy, is that because there are so many people. Resource scarcity will be much more common, and already, resources are steadily depleting. One example of this would be water. Already, less than one percent of the water on the planet is drinkable freshwater, and due to this, we must be much more careful in our usage of it. The average cost of living

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    The convoluted problems concerning overpopulation remain to be a highly discussed issue in various countries throughout the world. Some issues that are in support of overpopulation include the opportunity to place innovative ideas into action, stimulating the economy, job openings in new growing industries, increased human resources, encourages competition, advancement in urbanization and development, demand for industries like farming, and allows for cheaper and more readily available products to

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    better medical treatment for all. A direct result of this has been increased lifespan and the growth of the population. In the past fifty or so years, the growth of population has increased rapidly and has turned into overpopulation. Developing countries face the problem of overpopulation more than developed countries, but it affects most of the Earth as of now. World population growth is causing many alarming problems. The population will continue growing in some parts of the world whilst others stabilize

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    Human overpopulation is mostly the most urgent environmental issues, the forces behind global warming , environmental pollution, habitat loss, the sixth mass extinction, intensive farming practices and the consumption of finite natural resources, such as fresh water, land and fossil fuels, at speeds faster than their rate of regeneration. however, ecological issues are just the beginning . Overpopulation is the state where the human population rises to an extent completing the carrying size of the

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    force, which is currently plaguing the planet. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the fact that, overpopulation is not the primary cause of our modern day predicaments, but is merely a tributary to the actual source. Environmental, economic, agricultural and political factors are some of the main incipient issues, which have thus been ignored, and have resulted in the myth called overpopulation. The negative repercussions of these aspects will be examined, along with a comprehensive study into

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