11.) To eat less meat is more reasonable than telling people to have fewer children.
10.)There would be 9 billion people on the planet by 2045, and there is currently a population of 7 billion people.
9.) Population is not the cause of global warming
People can’t change the climate, so how does the increasing amount of population connect with global warming speeding up? Therefore the increasing population does not have relevance and is not the cause of global warming.
With the increasing population, more and more people will end up living in slums and providing them with good housing and education will be a challenge. Without education they will bound to have more children and without good housing they will fall victim to diseases. This will be an undying cycle unless it is solved.
When there are a lot of people with fewer resources available there is a tendency for competition. It is a trend we can observe over the last centuries. People will fight over these resources which would cause a big fight such as a war and/or genocide. With war mechanizing and improved dramatically over the last few years where we now have bombs than can destroy the whole world it is predicted that if World War 2 happens, war will be much more violent and countries could be literally blown off the map. The world could end. Most of the population will come from developing countries such as Africa where bad medical care will cause health problems and when they migrate those problems will spread causing worldwide diseases and health issues. Since we use a lot of resources without much care, the earth will be much polluted than it was.
Developed countries consume an excessive amount of resources meanwhile the third world countries which with a higher population needs more resources; consume a small amount of it. Wealthy nations are taking advantage of the poorer countries and thriving while the poorer countries lack resources to meet people’s needs which will cause hunger and starvation. It is tough to see whether there will be resources left for future generations if we continue to consume large portions of resources each year. However, emerging economies are catching up fast on the amount of resources consumed.
People live longer because of science and medical advances but they will always need food to survive. Food is produced by crops and water. But what if the food produced does not meet the demand that requires it? What if we can only provide food for a certain amount of people and the rest are rest are left starving? The demand of food is increasing but the supplies we are producing do not meet the requirements. Also thinking further ahead, Earth has less than 2% of clean water and what if this water finishes? How will we grow crops or get healthy water to drink?
Birth rates and death rates used to be balanced but better health care, sanitation, and medicine allowed higher life expectancy and people generally lived much longer than they usually did. The death rates decreased and so did the birth rates but there is still much larger birth rates than death rates. This means that we have much more people being born than dying which means that the population is increasing dramatically. Population grows by 80 million each year which is huge, and if we go on with this current rate we are bound to have 33% more people in this planet within less than fifty years! To solve overpopulation, one way would be to balance the equation, or in other words equalize birth rates and death rates.When Russia had low birth rates, they paid women $11,500 if they had a second child, and this worked. So a solution to combat high birth rates could be that the government pays a certain amount of money to women that had less than 2 children or a one child policy like China might work pretty well.
In third world countries, a family usually consists of an average of six kids compared to the two kids of western countries. Birth control is not available, and these people have not received sex education so they do not know the harms of unprotected sex. They think producing more children will help earn the family more money and be able to help around the house, so they keep producing more children. Some women are also raped, and health facilities are poor and without medical help. The populations of these developing countries are growing dramatically and in the future they will make up a big part of the world’s population unless this situation is dealt with. These third world countries are mostly the poor African nations whose population has rose over 54% in less than 50 years.
Birth control and education must be available to women who need to have more access in decision making and her voice must be counted. Women must be able to choose how many children she has, and with education it is likely women will have lesser children. Population increasing comes down to girls we must deal with giving them more rights, contraception, birth control, and hopefully they will produce less children. If girls around the world adapt the trend of western countries, than the population is bound to stabilize and not increase so dramatically.
1.) Population is increasing exponentially, and we will consume more resources than the earth can support
There will always be more human than food available which would mean people would starve and be without food. Estimates of almost 1 billion people are without food each day, and as population increases dramatically, we will need more resources to consume. We already lack these resources, and the shortages will increase causing huge competitions for resources other than food which are bound to cause problems around the planet. Population is increasing but the resources we have are not increasing with it. it took earth millenniums to reach a population of 1 billion, but just 200 years to increase it to 7 billion.
