ASEAN was created on August 8‚ 1967 by five founding members; Thailand‚ Indonesia‚ Singapore‚ Malaysia‚ the Philippines. Malaysian foreign minister Ismail Abdul Rahman said at that time: ‘we have to come to a profound shared realization that we will not be able to survive as independent nations for long…‚ unless we think and act at the same time as residents of Southeast Asia’ . At perilous times when the nation-states were pressurized into joining either one of the two major blocs‚ Southeast Asian
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that is incapable of providing the basic necessities. Clean and green environment‚ peace and order situation are a common problems caused by overpopulation. The government is providing a big portion of the annual budget to control cleanliness and orderliness‚ not mention the left and right insurgency problem in the case of our country. Overpopulation is not a problem of the state alone but by the family. So‚ the family being the first affected by this crisis must have a careful planning of its
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Overpopulation Overpopulation is a natural hazard we must all do something about. Not only is it destroying our natural habitat and ecosystem‚ it is also affecting every animal below us down the food chain. Besides the loss of biodiversity in our environment and the negative effects on our animal and plant life‚ overpopulating the Earth is severely cutting into our food supply. More and more people are going hungry every day due to our rising birth rates and the advancement in medical care for
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THE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF POPULATION GROWTH Some observers attribute nearly all of the world ’s maladies to excessive population growth. They claim that rapid population growth has at least three adverse effects on human well-being. First‚ it increases poverty--the number of people that are impoverished‚ the proportion of the community that is impoverished‚ and the severity of the impoverishment. Second‚ it increases environmental degradation--the misuse of natural resources--with adverse consequences
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Haiti has the highest incidence of HIV/Aids in Latin America and the Caribbean - 90% of the HIV/AIDS cases in the Caribbean belong to Haiti. Consequences Overpopulation has created many problems in Haiti destroying families and causing great damage to the country’s political and financial state‚ as well as diminishing the health and vitality of the population. One of the biggest problems in Haiti currently is the spread and containment of disease within the country. Currently due to high densities
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The United States of America has less than 5% of the world’s population‚ but unfortunately has more than 20% of the world’s prison population‚ making it the country with the highest prison rates in the world (American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU]‚ 2016). To put this in perspective‚ China has a population of about 1.4 billion people while the United States has a population of about 324 million people; the prison population in the United States is 2.2 million while China has a prison population of
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Rachel Bohnenberger Professor Van Doorn ENVS 150-002 5 February 2015 Critique Three The first video discussed the issue of the over-population of the United States and the problems that arise as a result. It began with introducing a scientist by the name of Paul Ehrlich who was a biologist. His main focus was the negative effects over-population has had on society such as the quickly depleting resources as a result of more people needing to be supported. One of the causes of the depleting resources
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Did you know that there are over 2.4 million healthy dogs and cats in shelters? Did you also know that one every thirteen seconds are euthanized ("Pet Overpopulation: The Humane Society of the United States")? These animals don’t ask to be brought into this world to be put in a small‚ cold enclosed cage. I personally wouldn’t want to be born into the world to be given up on‚ would you? Too many people don’t understand or even care to understand this sad statistic. In fact‚ humanity is so selfish
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huge population China must find ways to sustain their natural resources in order to maintain all of these people. Chinas population is expected to peek in 2030. One of the most important natural resources China is seeing being depleted do to overpopulation is water. The more people a country has the more industrial needs‚ agricultural needs and consumption needs arise. This means that the amount of water in China needs
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On the other hand In the United States there are 12 million illegal immigrants from all over the world. That is making the U.S have overpopulation issues and also taking the rightful jobs away from the ones that were born in the U.S. as stating by Online Athens “Illegal immigrants are overcrowding our classrooms‚ abusing our medical facilities and taking jobs from citizens. Some say illegal immigrants are doing jobs others won’t do. That’s not true. They’ll simply do the work for less money‚ and
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