It is necessary to stop or at least slow down overpopulation, otherwise all of our resources will start to parish. According to professor Krisin Johnston,
“Not only are there more of us, but we are consuming more—and that consumption is directly related to the imperiled state of the planet: wild animals and wild places are disappearing; pollution in earth, air, and water is increasing; and radical climate changes are affecting weather patterns all over the world” (Largen, 13).
This is why its important to make a radical solution like, eliminating the senior population. Many people will oppose to this solution because they believe that there’s other ways to tackle this threat. Over the years, new inventions were made in order to slow down overpopulation, like contraceptives and condoms. Howard Kainz, said that “motivated only by ideology … European countries have arrived at such low birth levels and their existence is threatened by contraception” (Kainz, 7). Because of that, many people believe that contraceptives are good in order to stop this world crisis. Several countries like China have already stated a one child policy, which means that families will not be able to have more than one child; and families could be fined for having more than one child. Laura Fitzpatrick published an article on Time where she stated that “Depending on where they live, couples can be fined thousands of dollars for having a supernumerary child without a permit” (Time.Fitzpatrick). The reason for this was so that it would help control social, economical and environmental issues. Another reason why people would oppose to this solution would be that, they do not want to see their family member get eliminated, even if it’s for the greater good. All ...
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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.
In many of the developing countries perhaps, another factor that they relate to population is poverty. If the number of population is high then there is the existence of poverty which ultimately leads to resource scarcity. But this is barely true, studies shows that there is no direct link between population growth and poverty. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in the United States concluded in its 1986 report, titled Population Growth and Economic Development as cited by Jan (2003) that it is misleading to equate poverty with population growth per se. It found that the claim that population growth led to resource exhaustion was mistaken and it pointed out that to a great extent environmental problems could be resolved by appropriate government policies designed to correct market failure. This study was later confirmed by the Independent Inquiry Report in to Population and Development (IIRPD) commissioned by the Australian Government in 1994. It acknowledged a positive correlation between population growth and sustainable development (Jan, 2003).
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In China, there was a One-Child policy fully put in place in 1980 to help press a brake on the growing populace (History1). Though this policy was recently tweaked, there is still currently a child limit policy in China based off of the One-Child policy. In placing limits on the amount of children a woman can have, China tells that, “Authorities claim that the policy has prevented more than 250 million births between 1980 and 2000, and 400 million births from about 1979 to 2011”(One1). By preventing all of these births, the population of the world was not affected as greatly by a baby boom like it would have been if these pregnancies had been carried
Arresting global population growth should be second in importance only to avoiding the nuclear war on humanity's agenda. Over population and rapid population growth are intimately connected with most aspects of the current human predicament, including rapid depletion of nonrenewable resources, deterioration of the environment and increasing international tensions. (Ehrlich 18).
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Though several people see large rapidly growing populations in developing regions as the primary culprit in environmental decline, we need to focus on the costly environmental outcomes of overconsumption among the gradually increasing populations of the developed nations. These differing emphases naturally point to fundamentally different solutions: slow population increase in less-developed nations or change destructive consumption and production patterns in the more-developed nations. This debate, however, assumes a one-step answer to the complex problems created by population pressures on the environment. Both population size and consumption ...