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
Therefore the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee and the State Council’s Resolution Concerning the Strengthening of Birth Control proclaimed the one child policy in 1980. This policy said “the state advocates the one couple has only one child except for special cases, with approval for second birth” (Chinese Communist Party Central Committee, 1980). The goals of the policy were to have zero growth in the country and maintain the population at 1.2 billion by 2000. China offered financial and marital incentives to couples with a child and suspended them if the couple had a second child. Despite being defined as a voluntary program, the policy was enforced through administrative controls (White 2006). Be...
In 1979, China decided to establish a one child policy which states that couples are only allowed to have one child, unless they meet certain exceptions[1].In order to understand what social impacts the one child policy has created in China it important to evaluate the history of this law. China’s decision to implement a Child policy has caused possible corruption, an abuse of women’s rights, has led to high rates of female feticide, has created a gender ratio problem for China, and has led to specific problems associated with both the elderly and younger generation. Finally, an assessment of why China’s one child policy is important to the United States allows for a full evaluation of the policy.
Throughout centuries, China has been battling with overpopulation, one of the biggest issues that the nation has been faced with, forcing the government to enforce the one-child policy. The desire to control the rapidly growing population dates back to the Mao Zedong era where the population number was at a ripe 602 million people (Stycos, 1989). He believed that with every mouth comes "two hands". What he did not realize at the time was that too many mouths bring hardship, poverty, and paucity of food supplies. In 1979, the Chinese government decided to enforce a policy that would help minimize the growth of their population (McDonald, 1996). The one-child policy was what they thought would solve the problem. Married couples would have to sign an agreement known as the one-child certificate. This certificate served as a contract between the couple and the Chinese Government stating that the couples and the one child that they have will be granted economic and educational advantages in return for promising not to have more than one child (Audubon, 1994). Since each couple is allowed one child, the gender of that child determines whether or not it stays in China as part of the family.
In the late 20th century, the one child policy was established, and still continues today, although it is slightly altered. In the first twenty years of the one child policy, China’s population went from 1.3 billion to 300 million, which is why the policy has changed. Today, the one child policy has changed; depending on the couple, if one or both of the parents is a single child, they may have a second child. The one child policy had started due to the overp...
China’s communist party created this policy in 1979 and has prevented over 400 million births with the use of forced abortions and sterilizations like Uzbekistan. In January of 2016, this policy has been changed into a two-child policy due to a realization that there can be an economic consequence to the failing birth-rate. Also, due to the fact that couples can only have one child, the future of China’s population can be a burden. Researchers stated, “The graying population will burden health care and social services, and the world’s second-largest economy will struggle to maintain its growth (Jiang, Steven)”. With the lack of production for more newborns, the population will gradually have a majority of elderly people within their society. The new population policy made add an increase in population, but it still puts a limit on the population. If couples had this policy lifted, it can make the overpopulation problem occur again. Therefore, this transition from one child to two children helps balance out under-population and overpopulation in
In, The Population Bomb by, Paul R Ehrlich, he explains the problem of population increase, and how there are people everywhere! The feeling of feeling over populated. He talks about how if there are more people then there is more food that needs to be produced then ate. He explains on the rich people becoming wealthier and the poor are going to be even poorer and there is going to be a starvation. Population is doubling every year and how our energy is turning into
“An Essay on the Principle of Population” is written by Thomas Malthus where he outlines his theory on population growth. He thought that if population continued to grow, food production wouldn’t be able to keep up with demand and he believed that many people would die due to famine. Either people would have to use more contraception to drop the birth rate, or the death rate would increase due to wars, disease or
With the one-child policy being enacted in 1979, many wonder what sort of effect that it would have on China. What I believe to be the main effect of this policy, are the negative consequences that subsequently followed after the induction of the Family Planning Policy (one-child policy). Some of these effects include forced abortions, sex ratio differences, infanticide and many more. I think that since these effects are so harsh and so irrefutable, that the negative effects brought on by the one-child policy, have practically destroyed what you could call China’s family life.
Overpopulation is a real significant reason why today's current environmental status is in such critical condition. A few of the issues that overpopulation contributes to are things such as global warming, water shortages, ocean depletion, and even food shortages. Another major effect that world overpopulation displays is acid rain, which can be caused by air pollution. Air pollution is usually created from the burning of fossil fuels which operate in things like planes, cars, and also trucks. So by burning the fossil fuels and deforesting, the earth ends up turning up the gas levels in the greenhouse. This then creates a major increase in the air and starts to heat up the earth, which potentially could lead to an abundant of dangerous effects such as the depletion of the ozone layer. Also,...
In the video Arithmetic, Population, and Energy by Dr. Albert A. Bartlett, he discusses in length the problems with the growing population and additional problems that it causes. He believes that the biggest contributing factor to our problems is that we don’t or can’t understand the exponential function (or steady growth). Through multiple examples he proves that the population is growing according to the exponential function. He then goes on to provide examples of how much energy and resources the population uses and applies that to his growth rate of the population. On the surface his conclusions seem to be that we must all do our homework and not take others’ word for what’s happening to the resources on earth. Through his examples, it
Population growth refers to the increase or decrease in the size of the population in a country, state or city. (BusinessDictionary.com) The positivity or negativity growth of the population depends greatly on the balance of the birth and death rates in the area. By adding the birth rate and immigration of the country and minus death rate and emigration, it determines whether the country’s population growth is at the healthy or unhealthy range. (Gee, Ellen) The population growth of the country, be it good or bad will evidently affect the country’s economy and environment.
Population growth is the change in population over a period of time. It happens due to a number of factors such as standard of living, cultural factors, and government policies. When the standard of living become better such as the improvement of social conditions ( shelter, sanitation, clean water , health care and etc) death rate and birth rate reduce as more people become inclined to have fewer children. As standard of living increases, there will be more immigrants thus an increase in population. Government policies which encourage people to have lesser or more children also has a significant effect on birth rate too.
Overpopulation is an undesirable condition where the number of the existing human population exceeds the carrying capacity of Earth. Overpopulation is caused by a number of factors. Reduced mortality rate, better medical facilities, depletion of precious resources are a few of the causes which results in increasing the population. In the future, overpopulation will become a huge catastrophe. Because of overpopulation, countries will run out of their resources, and they wanted to obtain more and more resources to destroy the environment. This undesirable condition cause destruction of forests and water shortage, but I think people can change some polices, and they also can promote
Human population growth was relatively slow for most of human history. Within the past 500 years, however, the advances made in the industrial, transportation, economic, medical, and agricultural revolutions have helped foster an exponential, "J-shaped" rise in human population (Southwick, Figure 15.1, p. 160). The statistics associated with this type of growth are particularly striking: "Human beings took more than 3 million years to reach a population of 1 billion people...The second billion came in only 130 years, the third billion in 30 years, the fourth billion in 15 years, the fifth billion in 12 years..." (Southwick, p. 159). As human population has grown, there has been simultaneous growth within the industrial sector. Both of these increases have greatly contributed to environmental problems, such as natural resource depletion, ecosystem destruction, and global climate change. Also linked with the increasing human population are many social problems, such as poverty and disease. These issues need to be addressed by policy makers in the near future in order to ensure the survival and sustainability of human life.
About ten years ago while in a science museum, I saw a counter that estimated what the world population was at that given moment. Innocuous at first glance, since a number in excess of five billion is difficult to comprehend, what became alarming after watching the counter for a minute was the continual increase in the population. Thinking about the circumstances related to the population rise logically made the problem seem apparent. The earth is finite both in terms of physical size and in resources but the population is growing towards an infinite value. At some point the steadily rising population will move from being a problem that is geographically distant to one that is immediate and more salient than just an increasing value on a faceless counter.