Ken Wu
Grade 11
International Relations
2014/08/28
People Mountain People Sea
In 2014, World's population has gone above 7 billion people and we, the human, thinking that overpopulation can be a positive thing. Overpopulation does somehow make some benefit to this world. People said that, overpopulation creates more urbanization, which brought a great change in the growth of the economy. Famous American author "Mark Twain", he quotes "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first". As the world's population starts rising, and these people will follow the animal traits: To Survive. Human is a selfish and greedy animal, we demand more than what we need, we tried to fight for our benefit against another human beings, but all we did is just to survive. This Worlds now is facing several serious problems because of overpopulation, and if we don't make some actions, the world will eventually drain out by us.
Human beings are for this reason that this world is corrupted, the advances in technology, the creation of better medical treatment. All these are the law breaker that violated the faith of the human being by extending people's life. The advance of medical system has declined the death rate dramatically, but as this going on, there will still be and more people in this world. The other reason is when a family is struggling under poverty, they would give birth to a large family, so the infant's mortality would increase. In some of the developed countries, people have immigrated to these developed countries in order to survive and get wealthy. That will cause the overcrowded in some of the places. This will link to the depletion of natural resources, this world can only produce a limited amount of water and food, but the people's need would never be enough. Even though people have tried to increase the amount of water and food, but these native resources were needed in order to take this action. The overuse of coal, oil and natural gas, these problem is running out, when we rely on them. The decrease of the resources will increase the price of these energy, which brings us the high cost of living. Everything's price is increased except your income. In the future, when people are running out of energy, people will go into an energy war, conflicts, argument forms because people fight to survive. - The scientific study funded by NASA has found that civilization could be facing collapse within the next few decades.
- One of the CNN report, title read "This planet comes with limits", "the population will increase by 9.6 billion by 2050, that's two more Chinas"
- Titled read "Overpopulation could be people, planet problem", it mentioned "India on the path to become the most populous country.","Overpopulation will tax water supplies worldwide". "Largest population growths occurring in developing nations."
I believe that overpopulation is definitely the greatest and unsolved problem in the world. Although it is already a problem, it also leads to other problems such as starvation, global warming, poverty, war and even more.
ReplyDeleteI believe that overpopulation might be a great problem, but it's very likely not the greatest. You've supported your claim with the ideas of medical improvement, immigration, child mortality, and lack of resources. However, both medical improvement and immigration are just the causes of overpopulation, whereas child mortality should be the cause of poverty, not overpopulation; if the the family was wealthy, they would have money to support their children, or they wouldn't give birth to a large number of children after all. The depletion of resources is indeed an important effect of overpopulation, but it had not become a huge problem yet. In my opinion, most people can't get resources because they are poor, not because there is a lack of the resources. If you want to support your claim, I think it is better to list the resources that are decreasing to the point that the their price needs to be increased.
ReplyDeleteSorry, I meant 'effects of poverty' for the third sentence.
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