Exponential Population Growth

Exponential population growth is a kind of population growth where an increase in the amount of births is proportional to the amount of people present. For instance, if 30 people each had 3 children and each of those children had 3 children, this would be adding to exponents proving exponential population growth. A different kind of population growth would be logistic growth, where the rate of growth decreases as the population reaches a point where resources needed to maintain the population become scarce. Currently, there is an annual increase of 1.1% in our global population. Although the numbers keep changing, the global population seems to portray an exponential growth pattern, unless a major disaster would happen, causing a significant …show more content…

Exponential population growth does have the same implications as logistic growth, the only difference would be that the implications on the ecosystem would take longer to manifest than the latter. As the population grows exponentially, the bigger they get, and the faster they grow. According to Ahuja, (2006), if one would look 100 years into the future, the population would have significantly grown. This will lead to crowded housing in cities and towns and pressure on the ecosystem so as to sustain the population with the adequate resources required. An existing example would be the conditions in slums across the world. They are densely populated, living conditions are way below average and environmental pollution is common in these …show more content…

Abortion was made legal for the purpose of preventing births that were beyond the limit that was required. Sterilization of either males or females was also made available as a way to enforce the one child-policy. People who failed to follow through with the policy were made to pay fines for not adhering to its rules. These methods of enforcing the policy were met with strong opposition mainly by the rural area dwellers which led the policymakers to sparing them from the policy (Wang and East West Center, 2005). The very architects of the one-child policy foresaw that it would change and although it took quite some time, it came to be on the 1st of January on the year 2017. The policy was converted to a two-child policy to help stop certain issues that had begun to rise. Some of these issues included forced abortions and even in some cases they were selective on gender leading to gender imbalances (Cedar, 2015). Today in China, there are 120-140 men for every 100