Essay On Population Overpopulation

At this rate, humans will inevitably overpopulate the planet. The question is, how long do we have before it is truly too late? We have governments and financial systems that help to support a steadily declining network of nations and societies. They prevent chaos. We have filled our prisons to the brim and our systems and energy are on the way to a slow death. How long before the amount of people outweighs the amount of resources? How long before we inflict too much damage on our planet to grow food and sustain life? These are not the questions of a paranoid tree-hugger. These are some of the most important and influential questions of our time. If we don’t start finding legitimate answers to these questions now, it will be too late. I have an idea that could be a possible solution. The probability of my idea’s actual consideration is highly unlikely due to

In 1950, the world had 2.5 billion people; and in 2005, the world had 6.5 billion people. By 2050, this number could rise to more than 9 billion.” The fact that the population of humans on Earth could be over 10 billion people in a hundred years is shocking to me. Many projections say our global population could become unsustainable due to lack of energy sources. “Given the unequivocal relation between energy use and fertility, stabilizing the global population by mid-century will require vastly more energy than is currently projected to be available.”(DeLong 6) If those projections are even close to accurate, it can only mean problems for us and our planet. We need to start reducing the population growth rate now. That statement, at first, should make anyone a little uncomfortable. Slowing down the rate at which people reproduce is something that seems impossible to do without severely violating our natural human