article is explicitly morality centered. Out of all the essays that I have read about poverty and the link to overpopulation‚ I feel that I better understand and agreed with the work of Garrett Hardin and his “Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor”. He makes a lot of interesting points but there were three that really stood out to me and they all had to do with overpopulation being the problem. Some people compare Earth to being a spaceship with limited space and if overpopulated the
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of bacteria‚ but when it comes to humans‚ it is a very formidable number. The human population has been increasing at an extremely high rate in the last century and unfortunately‚ not much has been done to slow down this process. Undoubtedly‚ overpopulation is a global issue. It is global because it pertains to all of humanity‚ but global also means that it affects the whole world‚ i.e. the environment. Almost all human activities impact negatively the environment in one form or another‚ and as human
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Malthus’ Theory of Population are human population‚ food production or food supply‚ and birth & death rates. According to Malthus‚ population will always exceed and grow faster than the food supply‚ leading to periods of overpopulation and famine. He argued that overpopulation was the cause of many of the social issues in the society such as poverty‚ malnutrition‚ and disease. Thus‚ if left unhampered‚ human population would continue to grow until they would become too large to be supported by our
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2012 Contents 1. Introduction In 1960 Chinese were allowed to have as many children as possible. It was even a good omen for the country1. In 1979 the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping established the one-child policy because of the overpopulation. His aim was to limit China’s population growth. The current state of the Chines population is about more than 1.3 billion people‚ and thus the largest population in the word. By 2015‚ the population of the country should be less than 1.3 billion
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have no resources to survive on. Hence to avoid such a catastrophe‚ Malthus urged the importance of population growth. Overpopulation leads to a diminished quality of life. There are ubiquitous traffic jams‚ long queues and crowded public areas in most of the major cities in the world. It is common now to hear of accidents on the road or riots taking place. Overpopulation leads to poverty and unemployment. India can be used as a reference. There are currently about one billion people in India
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China’s one child policy was established by Deng Xiaoping in 1979 to slow the rise of communist China’s exponential population growth. China is the world’s most populous country and its population will only continue to rise unless something is done about it. Some find it harsh and inhumane to limit the number of offspring‚ but China is doing this for its people. An unchecked population growth puts and enormous strain on resources and hampers economic development. China’s one child policy was necessary
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In the Future of Life‚ Edward Wilson describes the problems that the Earth is experiencing‚ the causes of them‚ and some of the solutions that can be done to save it. Some problems facing the planet are invasive species‚ overpopulation‚ extinction‚ and killing of biodiversity all have solutions to them. First of all‚ the Earth faces the problem of invasive species which kill the native plants in the population. An example of an invasive species is the giant land snails from Africa were introduced
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Some of the underdeveloped and developing countries face the problem of over population. Too many mouths to feed and less natural resources on hand can have a devastating effect on the economy. Countries like India and China have large population. In India‚ population growth has been on a higher scale than what the country’s economy can handle. The prosperity of a nation depends upon the standard of living of its people. Developed countries‚ such as the US with less population provide a better standard
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World Population Day is an annual event‚ observed on July 11‚ which seeks to raise awareness of global population issues. The event was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989. It was inspired by the public interest in Five Billion Day on July 11‚ 1987‚ approximately the date on which the world’s population reached five billion people.The world population on the 20th anniversary of Five Billion Day‚ July 11‚ 2007‚ was estimated to have been 6‚727‚551
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