Shuo Feng
Overpopulation
As the population in an
area with too many people, its resource is not enough for their consumptions.
The relationship between humans and the environment is not balanced, because
the population is more than the earth capacity of them. The current world
population is more than 7.3 billion. Scientists predict that the population
will reach 9 billion in 40 years. The top three countries with the highest
population are China, India and America.
Over population has
different reasons. The one of the factors is lack of birth control education that
would lead to high fertility rate. In many undeveloped countries like Africa,
women do not have birth control to prevent accidental pregnancy. As a result,
they gave birth to the child after they are pregnant. Another reason is that
people now live longer and there is a better quality of life and advanced
medical treatment that can decrease the mortality rate. In addition, the impact
of immigration on the local population will increase the amount of people.
The population has
affected many aspects of our ecosystem. First of all, biodiversity is
declining. With the competition for resources, animal use less resources than
they need. This will cause species extinction on earth. The extinction will be 1000
times faster than today's typical speed of history. This is mainly because of
rapid population growth.
Secondly, much of the
population will affect the ecological footprint. With the increase of
population, people consume more energy and resources than ever before. The
planet is not the production of these needs as we want. Humans will eventually
use all of the resources, because the earth is not at the speed of itself. In
addition, overpopulation is the impact of the environment. Chemical waste from
factories and toxic substances into the water near the pollution they supply.
As a result, it kills fish and endangers people's health.
I come from Beijing, China.
Most of the provinces are as busy as New York City, especially in large city,
such as Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. People from other districts like to
move to a big city. However, as a native of the city, I don't like this phenomenon.
This can increase the difficulty of searching work, inflation, as well as the
competition and traffic control. Resources are scarce, if more people need more
resources will be added. When more and more people want to move in, the more
difficult they will find to adapt to the society.
Overpopulation is a worldwide issue. The worlds governments need to come together to find a solution for this issue. Many consider setting limits on the amount of children a family can have to be an infringement on basic human rights and, to an extent, this notion is completely justified. However, once third world countries begin to effectively use birth control, more steps must be taken in order to keep the human population from growing at its current rate.
ReplyDeleteIt was really interesting how you linked the topic of overpopulation to your own experiences and how it leads to problems in China and around the world. Hopefully we can come up with some policy solution to help mitigate this issue before it becomes worse.
ReplyDeleteIt was really interesting how you linked the topic of overpopulation to your own experiences and how it leads to problems in China and around the world. Hopefully we can come up with some policy solution to help mitigate this issue before it becomes worse.
ReplyDeleteI agreed with Brain. As the populations the is increasing it is a huge problem for our society, so we have to come up with a better solutions. I was surprised to find U.S. is one of top three with over population.
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