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“There will soon be seven billion people on the planet. By 2045, global population is projected to reach nine billion. Can the planet take the strain?”

The current population is placing a considerable burden on the planet by using up its limited resources. The planet population is actively growing by about 80 million a year. This staggering statistic is hard to ignore. With so many women across the world in their childbearing years, the global population will continue to grow for another few decades.
A world population of eight billion corresponds to the UN's lowest projection for 2050. A real life example in this article of how population growth was brought below replacement level in a poor region is in Bangladesh. Without placing limits on the number of children a mother may have and without any type of surgical procedure or use of force, Bangladesh was able to reduce the fertility rate to 1.35 children. Even at these reduced rate, the total population will be greater than it is today in 2050. Rwanda's fertility rate also fell below replacement level, but the population still rises to well over twice what it was before the genocide. One might argue the future is indeed bleak. The increase in the planet’s population will continue to place a significant burden on its resources.
Carbon emissions in developed countries have created a worldwide effect on a deteriorating planet. Having a single planet that carries the only necessities for life as far as we know is being abused and exploited every day. A topic discussed in class was the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in developing countries from major transportation within India. Having a country with the majority of the population financing its own transportation, it not hard...

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... class”. That is a good thing but it will be a hard thing for the planet if those people are eating meat from foreign countries and driving gasoline powered cars at the rate the Americans do now. Many think that they need to give their families anything and everything to ensure happiness. From the wealthy to the poor there is an expectation to have anything we see in an ad or what other people have. To gain social status in the community in some peoples mind is a necessity. But is it really? The fate of our planet and our species will be in grave danger in the future if we don't turn it around. The only necessities we need are for our young and prospering to be well nourished and well educated enough to solve the problems they will face as adults. With great hope and determination of the prospering adults in this world, we together can save this big rock we live on.

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