The Inevitability Of Overpopulation In America

The Earth’s population is stated to be approaching seven billion. Concurrently, environmental degradation is persistent and resources are being depleted. The wealthy nations have assured the less wealthy ones that they too are on the verge to become rich. Their population growth rate is expected to decline as well (Dykstra, 1965). However, it is no longer apparent if this will happen. Scarcity of resources such as oil is anticipated to reduce the economic growth in future. It is expected that the demographic transition which has coincided with economic growth is unlikely for most nations. About 220,000 people are increased in the planet on a daily basis (Mudd, 2013). Statistics report that the United States of America alone adds one person
When Norman Borlaug won the award for his great work in coming up with new plant strains which formed Green Revolution basis, he shocked many in his acceptance speech. He said that there was no permanent means to control hunger. The agencies had to strive hard for food production. Importantly, those organizations that combat population growth had to equally fight hard (Wang et al, 2014). Borlaug emphasized on population control mitigation as a method to avert hunger indicating that even his newly developed strains of plants was not the solution.
Both consumption and population are integral parts of the crisis the world faces. All of them cannot be ignored since they have a worsening effect on the Earth (Wang, et al., 2014). It is distressing that many people ignore the problems created by increased population on the planet. Pretending that about 80 million added on the Earth each year is inexcusable. According to Mudd (2013), Kenneth Boulding is quoted saying, “Any person who is convinced that the exponential growth will go on forever in an infinite world can only be an economist or a
Every war leads to lives lost. People should view war in a positive way. Wars and aggression causes many lives lost which entirely leads to a decline in population (Lima & Abades, 2015). This paper is not advocating for war, it is human. However, when the world’s population keeps growing and nothing is being done to curb it, then war becomes an alternative. Human beings must learn that the effects of population explosion are gross and worse than the effects of war. In future, when the data rises to 9 billion, then people will start wishing for even conflicts because the repercussions will be too