Humans have been the worst life form to ever occupy the Earth. No other being has damaged the world as much as humans, but not all humans contributed to the suffering of the Earth. It was those who lived during and after the Industrial Revolution in 1800, these humans introduced innovation and invention of new technologies, improvement in communication and transportation, and enhancing the lifestyles of various countries around the world along with chemicals into the atmosphere and into freshwater. Since the Revolution, there has been a boom in the population that is still growing today. The uncontrollable increase in birth rate has developed into a very delicate situation, known as overpopulation. Most major problems on a global scale can …show more content…
One major reason is the rapid increase in population. Bangladesh covers an area slightly less than that of the state of Illinois but has a population that is roughly half of the total population of the United States. The quality of life is linked to population growth. Human welfare and the quality of life are closely linked to the availability of resources. The only thing that could help limit the population growth in Bangladesh is regulation. Regulation is needed to maximize opportunities for living worthwhile lives both by the present as well as future generations. Currently, the population in Bangladesh has decreased due to the fact that parents are educated about contraceptives. About twenty years ago one in five children died before five years of age leading to families living in a constant fear of losing one or more children. After a child dies the parent would make another one to replace the one that passed on. The parents didn’t think that they were having many children because it was a trend at the time to have at least 7 children on average. They also didn’t think about what the future would be like. Only in the last few decades, Bangladesh has made great progress in basic health care particularly in child survival. Vaccines, treatment of infections and better nutrition and hygiene have all saved the lives of millions of children. Now parents are starting to realise that their children are now likely to survive the biggest obstacle to family planning has at long gone. Even in the slums of Dhaka women have on average 2
The worldwide population is approaching 7 billion and is expected to reach 9 billion by 2050 (Baird). This projected population number is down from a once predicted 16 billion (Baird) and while some are not concerned, others are worried about any increase in population. Population growth is discussed in the articles “Too Many People?” by Vanessa Baird; “Population Control: How Can There Possibly Be Too Many of Us?” by Frank Furedi; and “The Population Bomb Revisited,” by Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich. Baird and Furedi concur that a concern for population growth has been around since mathematician Thomas Malthus, in 1798, warned that overpopulation could lead to “the collapse of society” (Furedi). Furedi claims that too much human life is being used as an excuse, by population control supporters, for the world’s current and future problems. Baird tries to discover if “the current panic over population growth is reasonable.” For Ehrlich and Ehrlich the concern over population growth is very real, and they reinforce and support their book “calling attention to the demographic element in the human predicament” (Ehrlich and Ehrlich 63). While taking different approaches to their articles, the authors offer their perspectives on population growth, population control and the environmental impacts of a growing population.
The growing human population, if not stabilized, will create a strain on the natural resources. Many countries realize this and have been making changes to family planning. Two of the more notable countries are Brazil and China. China has been know to have a controversial and straightforward policy responding to this problem. Chinese law prohibited families from having more than one child. In contrast, Brazil has no official government policies concerning family planning yet still sees a stabilized population as a result of various improved social programs. In the long run, both were effective in eventually controlling population growth, but at what cost?
Sometimes, husband and wife the protection of sexual relation has failed from process condom for example using low quality materials. The causes of the family reason why they want an abortion because they are not ready to take care of a baby being born. Secondly, the health of the mother, the physical disorders of the body. The major reason that abortion should not be banned is to prevent transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) from mother to infant during pregnancy and “reduce maternal morbidity and mortality” (Rudolph Gurtovnik, 2008, p.28). It is the big problem that the government has to solve and spend a lot of budget to treat all of these people.
Overpopulation does not only affect humans and put a greater risk of getting in a vehicular wreck caused by a deer running out in the highways and interstates, but it has tremendous effect on environmental
Document 1 shows the opinion of the Norwegian Prime Minister. His beliefs portray that, while religion and morality play a role in family-planning services, “morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers’ suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions, and unwanted children living in mistery.” He feels that women should be educated and that without this education population growth will become a more prominent issue. Document 5, a statement by the representative of the Syrian Arab Republic, also shows the belief that abortion should be a choice. Ultimately, it states that the enhancement of prosperity in societies, through family planning, is still in accordance with ethical and religious ideals. Document 6, a full U.N. Report, also shows the idea of abortion as a choice. It states that, “the aim of family-planning programmes must be to enable couples and individuals to decide freely and responsibly the number and spacing of their children and to have the information and means to do so.” Despite the fact that this family planning has led to a decrease in fertility rates, these services are still allowed, and barriers are even
and is existing surely because of humans themselves- overpopulation. “Overpopulation is the problem” and causes other externalities such as pollution, deforestation, and a greater handful of biodiversity losses. In addition, overpopulation causes economic and political factors such as more consumption per person and the reduction of resources that can be provided per person. This contributes to the strain on ecological systems and the economic and population growth. With overpopulation, many resources become finite and an umpteen amount of ecosystems are being destroyed. Overpopulation relates to the impact of humans on pollution. Obviously with more human life, there is more necessity for jobs such as factories that give off fumes, automobiles, and the use for burning fossil fuels. In greater extent, this leads to an environmental factor in that it accumulates chemicals in food chains such as mercury, arsenic, and copper. It can lead to political problems as well, when trying to interact with other countries and stop the problem of global pollution and eventually endin...
In India, women are being manipulated to stop having children after their second birth. Officials claim that by regulating population and the pregnancies of women after their second child they will be able to empower women by offering them contraceptive choices and child care facilities. In reality, if women do not agree to be sterilized after their second birth they will be denied health care, rations for cheaper food, bank loans, and enrolment in government housing. Another major concern for women is the high rate of infant mortality in India. If women are sterilized after two births and lose one or both of their children, they will never be able to become pregnant again. Instead of the population control plan providing women with child care aid and options, they are removing their rights and their choices.
Population is defined as the summation of entities of the same species interbreeding in a certain region. Population density is known as the number of individuals per unit area or volume. The world population is the number of humans existing on the earth. Since the last 50 years , the world population has been increasing incredibly . The population statistics from the most recent survey by the UN Population Division says that the population is more than 7 billion currently . In 1950 it was around 2 billion and in 2005 it was almost 6.5 billion. Thus the population is increasing quite rapidly. It is predicted that the population growth in 2050 will be around 9 billion.
This problem of population growth leads to a number of solutions that could have significant implications on the quality of life. Taking no action and allowing population to grow unchecked could possibly risk the entire human species if food or clean water were to become unavailable worldwide. Aiming for zero population growth would in theory maintain the existing quality of life since a stable population would not increase their use of resources. However not all resources are renewable, so scarcities could still occur with a fixed population size. In an extreme case permanent resource depletion under zero population growth could have the same extinction effect that unchecked growth can lead to. Despite the escalating risk of unchecked population growth, technological advances necessitated by the increase in population will at least maintain the quality of life and could possibly improve conditions.
Since the beginning of mankind, we have reached many great achievements. We have developed many technologies and theories to solve and explain many of our questions and to improve human life. Through our years of evolution, we have severely increased our own survivability. This has been a great achievement for us, but in the recent decade, overpopulation is becoming a great issue. In the recent years, the rapid increase in population growth has troubled many in the field of political sciences. Scientists like Ehrlich have calculated and expected our population to grow even faster if we do not act upon the increasing rate of population growth. The birth rate of our planet is increasing exponentially, meaning that the birth rate has surpassed the death rate and that the rate of growth will only increase if left alone. The politics of population is a debate that involves both the fields of sciences and moral and ethical considerations. Science may provide an insight of
Globally, the growth rate per person of the human population has been declining since its increase in 1962 and 1963 which was at 2.20%. In 2009, the estimated annual growth rate was 1.1%. As of now the population of the world is at about 7,211,021,348 humans, which has gone up 4 billion people since the 60’s. Most of this growth is coming from the countries in high poverty. Rise in human population can cause problems such as pollution and congestion; these might be resolved or worsened by technological and economic changes. Over the last 100 years we have seen a fast increase in population due to medical advances and massive increase in agricultural productivity. The major fear is that high population numbers are putting a burden on natural resources, food supplies, and more.
...he second way to attempt to decrease the population is through increased active family planning programs. Especially in poor countries, it is a lot harder for women just to jump into the work force, and even harder for a poor country to become industrialized. For example, in Bangladesh, one of the world's poorest countries, birth rates have decreased from seven children per family to only 5.5. This is largely because forty percent of Bangladesh's woman now take part in some form of family planning.
We as individuals do NOT understand the problems with overpopulation. We do not take the time or the effort to be educated enough; therefore we do not help in the prevention of future problems to keep our society as it is now.
Overpopulation can be seen as one of the key factors responsible for the state of our rapidly decaying earth. Developments in medicine, agriculture and technology have allowed for the human race to take over all other species and be excluded from the natural food chain. Humans, particularly westerners, lead lives of extreme consumption that take huge tolls not only on the earth but also on certain groups within society. A great division has developed between the western world and the third world.
The reduction of the Earth's resources has been closely linked to the rise in human population. For many thousands of years people lived in relative harmony with their surroundings. Population sizes were small, and life-supporting tools were simple. Most of the energy needed for work was provided by the worker and animals. Since about 1650, however, the human population has increased dramatically. The problems of overcrowding multiply as an ever-increasing number of people are added to the world's population each year.