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Why does increasing population have a negative effect

 

            ) A child born today in the United States for instance, will by the age of 75 years produce 52 tons of garbage, consume 10 million gallons of water and use 5 times the energy of a child born in the developing world. The United States uses approximately quarter of the world's fossil fuels and is the largest contributor of carbon dioxide, undesirable combustion products, and chlorofluorocarbons, chemicals that contribute to greenhouse warming and attack the Earth's ozone shield. The world looks to the United States as a role model. It is hard to ask developing nations to implement environment saving techniques and stabilize their population growth when the U.S. is unwilling to do so. This is one of the many reasons why we shouldn't be wasteful. This can also cause a shortage of resources we will need later on in the world.
             2.) Every 20 minutes, the world adds another 3,500 human lives but loses one or more entire species of animal or plant life - at least 27,000 species per year. Which means in five years we lose 135,000 species per year think about what it will be like in 50 years. In my left time and fellow students life times. It's a scary though.
             3.) We are today a world of 6.1 billion people, growing by 78 million more each year. Ninety-seven percent of that growth occurs in the poorest countries - countries too often torn by civil strife and social unrest and where all too many survive on the equivalent of less than one U.S. dollar a day. If the populations in those countries keeps on expanding how will the people of these countries have food, water, and shelter? This is something that we need to realize. People are dying of hunger everyday. What can we do about it in 20 years when there's hardly enough resources for everyone?.
             4.) Last year the world lost 26 billion tons of topsoil. This devastation was a result of three phenomena, each related to rapid population growth: urbanization; marginal farming; and desert expansion.


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