(Global Health Council 2002).
One controversial issue with the growing human population is the impact that it will have on the environment. On one side of the debate, people see Earth's natural resources and systems, and its human population inherently connected. As Roger-Mark De Souza states in his essay, Population, Health, and the Environment, the fundamental relationships between population and resources are fairly easy to grasp: People rely on food, air, and water for life. Earth provides energy and raw materials for human activities, in turn, affect the resources and ecosystems. Pollution and damage to those environmental goods adversely affect people's health and well-being. Garrett Hardin argues in his essay, "Is more always better?", that with human overpopulation our resources will deplete to levels that will no longer be able to sustain our needs. Our Earth's resources are finite and if we continue to use them as we are, we will run out. As a counterpoint to this projection, Julian L. Simon states that "There is little doubt in my mind that we will continue to find new ore deposits, invent better production methods, and discover new substitutions, bounded only by our imagination and the exercise of educated skills. The only constraint upon our capacity to enjoy unlimited raw materials at acceptable prices is knowledge. .
The second issue with human population growth is the way people feel it should be controlled. Experts on population have come to realize that slowing growth and other measures to achieve a stable population will require more than education on birth control and easy access to contraception and family planning. Most experts agree that we must apply a number of remedies. Daniel D. Chiras gives several strategies to stabilizing the human population. One of the key ideas is family planning measures, which permit couples to determine the number and spacing of children to determine family size and are vital to global efforts to reach a sustainable human population.
Overpopulation is like a big magnifying glass making little problems into big ones. ... The well being of the human species is more important than that of an individual. ... For of thousands of years, the human population grew at a slow but steady increasing rate. ... The planet urgently needs population control. The human species should not feel entitled to extinct other species as a birthright. ...
In recent decades, the world population explosion becomes a global problem. ... Despite the increase in population tends to decrease, it also has many negative impacts on human and natural system. ... Population boom is a global problem. ... While both have similarities, the population growth is no longer a problem, but also become the country's labor. ... In conclusion, besides world hunger, poverty and inequality, human are facing with other social phenomena: world population explosion. ...
During the first 2 million years of our history the human population had very little effect upon the overall world ecosystem, with no more than 10 million members. ... Problem About 140 000 million babies will be born, and 53 million will die which gives the overpopulated world an additional 84 million people per year. ... Farming with the help of tecnology is the cause why we eat better thus letting the human population grow rapidly. Technology is not only beneficial for farming, but it increases the life expectancy of humans, thus less people are dying. and keeping the popu...
Over 20 years passed, the importance of the problem of human overpopulation has been and continues to be a matter of debate. According to news from National Geographic, a photographer, Russell Moore, presents a photo of the population and states that human population has never stopped increasing since 1987. There are over 7 billion human populations on the earth now ("World Population"). ... Yet the world is interconnected, therefore since some areas are experiencing a problem with population growth, eventually overpopulation will affect the entire human family around the world. ... ...
In the 1960's the world population was at 3 billion, and in 1999 the worlds population was at 6 billion. ... If the population growth rate is not reduced further, world population will double by the year 2040. ... The moral objections arise from the involuntarily sterilization, yet these objections come from the idea that fertility is a fundamental human right which cannot be sacrificed. ... Doctors who are well educated and skilled could sterilize the woman to stop the ongoing problems. ... The world's human population currently numbers about 6 billion people, and the figure grows b...
HUMAN POPULATION GROWTH SUMMARY Before and during the 19th Century the world's population was growing steadily but it remained in a stable state. The 20th Century brought advancements in agriculture and technology, which caused dramatic increases in human population growth. ... Anyways, the biggest question to the human population growth problem is when is it going to slow down. ... Most people place blame on third world countries for the human population growth. ... VIEWPOINT When I began researching this topic I had no idea that human population growth was this big of a p...
This brings up the main problem, why is the world's growing population problem going to lead to economic problems, food shortages, depletion of natural resources, degradation of environment, wars, and higher unemployment; unless it is dealt with in the near future with better education, family planning, tax benefits, and sex education. ... The human has also made its way to the top of the food change making us not on any animals' normal menu. People also have not had the deaths that humans used to have due to poverty. ... All of these things are pushing the population higher and hig...
Dear editor, I read your article about human population growth. ... There is not enough talk today about the consuming problem of the human population. I may not have to worry about the problem because I will most likely be dead in 97 years, but my children may have to. ... Worries about human population growth are not new. ... I feel that we need to increase the public's knowledge of this potential and imminent problem. ...
The Effect of AIDS and Birth Rates are falling but Population is not. Aids is a deadly disease which is hurting a large amount of our population but at the same time it is causing many conflicts and social problems within our society. ... (Page 10) Staying with the topic that over population and poverty combined causes social problems such as scarce jobs and resources for people but only that overpopulation is responsible for the conditions, which contribute to the overall lowering of the quality of life of human beings in society. Another problem is AIDS, which is both a population and social...
