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Overpopulation
Many people
live their daily lives not knowing in what way one is or was affecting the
planet and without them even noticing it. Since the first day one is born we
were already starting to affect the planet whether on the diapers we once wore
or the food we once ate even the clothes we wore was affecting the planet in
which we now are living in. According to the UN the world will add another 2.6
billion people by 2050. Rapid population growth has placed incredible stress on
Earth's resources. This piece of evidence is showing us that the Earth is in
great danger for we the people are not really the problem number wise but the
amount of resources that we are daily using such as meat clothes we tend to buy. Another thing is that we are over consuming and not recycling anything that we are already used. According to scholarly researches overpopulation is being a huge problem because of the lack or resources that humanity just can not keep up with any more, the amount of garbage that is being produced and poverty around the world.
According to World Geography obtained from ABC-Clio document explains how overpopulation or factors for overpopulation. Factors for overpopulation happens for number of birth rates,death rates, emigration, and immigration also known for the equation of Population change equal the number of births minus the number of deaths plus the number of immigrants minus the number of emigrants. This equation according to this article explains how population increases or decreases but in this case increases for in this document it states how population was increasing on wars men kept going to war and they were dying which was causing # of babies down.With men decreasing the number of babies were also decreasing. Also with government corruption or poorness of countries or simply problems in countries, people were motivated to not have kids and move to another country where they can live a better life. One can see for these reasons how population was decreasing and how many people were stopping to have kids. With the number of wars high many men were dying which were having a lot of kids for war but now that there are little wars to fight in the number of men and babies have increased. The issue of Overpopulation is not a continues a threat to the world for according to the movie film Human Footprint talks about facts on however since we are a child we are starting to affect the planet Earth with us even noticing it. This suggests that human population of increasing isn't really a huge problem as many people see but the amount of consuming stuff such as food, clothes,just material stuff in general can be
part of the reason why the Earth is running out of resources. All of this can help one to think more of how much of what one can be consuming and how careful we should be careful of how much of whatever we are using.
The Earth's carrying capacity can hold not that much people in which we already passed and now a lot of people are facing the consequences of hunger around the world which brings me to my next piece of evidence which deals with food. Food for
many of us can be something that we daily see without really thinking how its made or in how does it come to end up in our plate. The reality is that it takes a lot or resources in order to get in ones plates.
The issue of
food is not a new problem for we have always had this problem of food
administration, how is it made and how much does it need to travel in order to
come to other places. According to World Geography on World Population (2008)
people in the poorest countries even up to today countries such as Angola,Mali
Uganda still have problems dealing water resources,pollution etc.This suggests
that people in these type of countries are found without the enough resources
in order to survive which cause death. This suggests that people in some places
don’t have enough food while in others food is running out of resources a lot.
That is why now
we hear more of genetically modified for this is a way now the man has found to
make more food more rapidly(The International Service for the Acquisition of
Agri-biotech Applications)(2006-2009). Article also says that that was their
purpose was to try to keep with the amount of food that is “naturally” being
produced but according to this article that is not really what is happening.
What is happening is that they (genetic food companies) are staying behind on
their demand from the year of 1996 to 2005 there were GM crops dropped and this
was not only shown in this country but also in other countries around the
world. But we not only see how their demand or sells have gone down but article
also addresses how GE foods have now controlled the way we have eaten.Like for
example in the year of 2008 soy is now 90% of what is called now “natural” but
now is called GE. As in corn 63% of it is now GE. Reason that scientist have
given according to this article why all of GE was created was because it
reduces work and makes food more larger in size
significantly.
But then we can
see that they can have very effective towards everyone. In an article (Animal
Biotechnology)(2002-2010)states that what the animals are given in order
to fatten up contains hormones and antibiotics. Even though antibiotics don’t
really sound harmful they do cause harm by even risking the animal that is
being given it to. The animals can become severely ill which can contaminate
the rest of the animals and become a virus. While the article also states that
hormones can also cause young females as well as old. For young females these
hormones can cause them to have puberty in a very young age. Not only because
it affects young girls doesn’t mean it can’t affect no one else for all these
hormones have estrogen which can lead to breast cancer according to article
given before. We see how not only are the government as well as the scientist
trying to get profit or at least try to “help” people not go hungry but they
are at the same time are taking us to our death. For all of the things that
they are giving us to eat have all these effects . Just as we see the soy and
corn that these elements are no dominantly GE food these are used in the
majority of the products consumed. Especially corn is used in many things since
corn is turned into corn starch which is definitely used in a whole variety of
food.
This issue
continues with also the amount of garbage that is constantly keeps growing as
well as lack of resources which threatens us of running out of space or causing
contaminated spaces not only by land but also in the air.According to the
Environmental Science and Technology(2008) they discuss on how much is the
average pollution is being made with using transportation for everyone person.
This suggests that we should be more in conscience of how much gas is being
burned in order to reach our table.This applies to the issue of pollution in
the air by traveling in very long distances in order to deliver the food that
needs to be delivered to everyone in this country. For example according to the
article obtained Greenhouse Gases or GHG they wrote an article on how far our
food travels which the average food travels 4194 miles which for scientist in
the article are being pushed to become vegetarian(Environmental Science and
Technology,2008). This illustrates that whether its on trash/waste or even in
things that we get as in food contamination in great ways the foods we get or
trash we throw away.
The last issue
which remains is poverty that overpopulation may cause. As according to the
article obtained by(ABC-Clio Overpopulation)(2012) explains that overpopulation
is one of the causes in which many kids as even in adults are found in poverty.
Such as The article mentioned before that explains how in third world countries
are suffering on population. Article also explains that in countries that are
low in population have been struggling on poverty and help from the government
while other that are too high in population are having their struggles on their
own. These countries need to try and keep on food shortages, high rates of
diseases as well as deaths,also poverty for job losses, and an unstable
economy. While places with short number of population relies on a decreasing
population as in their young, old, and less healthy old people. One can see
that poverty is happening everywhere in the world no matter in what type of
background they are coming from. Both sides of the story are getting affected
by both having and dealing with the problem of poverty.
One can see
that through these reason that overpopulation has a great effect on each and
one of us even though one doesn’t see or understand it. Overpopulation plays
that game of domino that it can affect something without affecting another
thing. Overpopulation affect the resources we have to garbage and waste that
can lead to poverty even to the extremes of deaths. One should see that
understanding these types of situations can even affect us for we are or maybe
living next to the people who are dealing with poverty as well as having our
yards or parks full of waste. We may even be the ones who for years have been
eating the GE foods that scientist as well as governments wanted to profit
from. One should always have in mind that overpopulation can work only if each
and one of us is willing to work together to use our resources wisely enough to
live decades to come.
Many people
live their daily lives not knowing in what way one is or was affecting the
planet and without them even noticing it. Since the first day one is born we
were already starting to affect the planet whether on the diapers we once wore
or the food we once ate even the clothes we wore was affecting the planet in
which we now are living in. According to the UN the world will add another 2.6
billion people by 2050. Rapid population growth has placed incredible stress on
Earth's resources. This piece of evidence is showing us that the Earth is in
great danger for we the people are not really the problem number wise but the
amount of resources that we are daily using such as meat clothes we tend to buy. Another thing is that we are over consuming and not recycling anything that we are already used. According to scholarly researches overpopulation is being a huge problem because of the lack or resources that humanity just can not keep up with any more, the amount of garbage that is being produced and poverty around the world.
According to World Geography obtained from ABC-Clio document explains how overpopulation or factors for overpopulation. Factors for overpopulation happens for number of birth rates,death rates, emigration, and immigration also known for the equation of Population change equal the number of births minus the number of deaths plus the number of immigrants minus the number of emigrants. This equation according to this article explains how population increases or decreases but in this case increases for in this document it states how population was increasing on wars men kept going to war and they were dying which was causing # of babies down.With men decreasing the number of babies were also decreasing. Also with government corruption or poorness of countries or simply problems in countries, people were motivated to not have kids and move to another country where they can live a better life. One can see for these reasons how population was decreasing and how many people were stopping to have kids. With the number of wars high many men were dying which were having a lot of kids for war but now that there are little wars to fight in the number of men and babies have increased. The issue of Overpopulation is not a continues a threat to the world for according to the movie film Human Footprint talks about facts on however since we are a child we are starting to affect the planet Earth with us even noticing it. This suggests that human population of increasing isn't really a huge problem as many people see but the amount of consuming stuff such as food, clothes,just material stuff in general can be
part of the reason why the Earth is running out of resources. All of this can help one to think more of how much of what one can be consuming and how careful we should be careful of how much of whatever we are using.
The Earth's carrying capacity can hold not that much people in which we already passed and now a lot of people are facing the consequences of hunger around the world which brings me to my next piece of evidence which deals with food. Food for
many of us can be something that we daily see without really thinking how its made or in how does it come to end up in our plate. The reality is that it takes a lot or resources in order to get in ones plates.
The issue of
food is not a new problem for we have always had this problem of food
administration, how is it made and how much does it need to travel in order to
come to other places. According to World Geography on World Population (2008)
people in the poorest countries even up to today countries such as Angola,Mali
Uganda still have problems dealing water resources,pollution etc.This suggests
that people in these type of countries are found without the enough resources
in order to survive which cause death. This suggests that people in some places
don’t have enough food while in others food is running out of resources a lot.
That is why now
we hear more of genetically modified for this is a way now the man has found to
make more food more rapidly(The International Service for the Acquisition of
Agri-biotech Applications)(2006-2009). Article also says that that was their
purpose was to try to keep with the amount of food that is “naturally” being
produced but according to this article that is not really what is happening.
What is happening is that they (genetic food companies) are staying behind on
their demand from the year of 1996 to 2005 there were GM crops dropped and this
was not only shown in this country but also in other countries around the
world. But we not only see how their demand or sells have gone down but article
also addresses how GE foods have now controlled the way we have eaten.Like for
example in the year of 2008 soy is now 90% of what is called now “natural” but
now is called GE. As in corn 63% of it is now GE. Reason that scientist have
given according to this article why all of GE was created was because it
reduces work and makes food more larger in size
significantly.
But then we can
see that they can have very effective towards everyone. In an article (Animal
Biotechnology)(2002-2010)states that what the animals are given in order
to fatten up contains hormones and antibiotics. Even though antibiotics don’t
really sound harmful they do cause harm by even risking the animal that is
being given it to. The animals can become severely ill which can contaminate
the rest of the animals and become a virus. While the article also states that
hormones can also cause young females as well as old. For young females these
hormones can cause them to have puberty in a very young age. Not only because
it affects young girls doesn’t mean it can’t affect no one else for all these
hormones have estrogen which can lead to breast cancer according to article
given before. We see how not only are the government as well as the scientist
trying to get profit or at least try to “help” people not go hungry but they
are at the same time are taking us to our death. For all of the things that
they are giving us to eat have all these effects . Just as we see the soy and
corn that these elements are no dominantly GE food these are used in the
majority of the products consumed. Especially corn is used in many things since
corn is turned into corn starch which is definitely used in a whole variety of
food.
This issue
continues with also the amount of garbage that is constantly keeps growing as
well as lack of resources which threatens us of running out of space or causing
contaminated spaces not only by land but also in the air.According to the
Environmental Science and Technology(2008) they discuss on how much is the
average pollution is being made with using transportation for everyone person.
This suggests that we should be more in conscience of how much gas is being
burned in order to reach our table.This applies to the issue of pollution in
the air by traveling in very long distances in order to deliver the food that
needs to be delivered to everyone in this country. For example according to the
article obtained Greenhouse Gases or GHG they wrote an article on how far our
food travels which the average food travels 4194 miles which for scientist in
the article are being pushed to become vegetarian(Environmental Science and
Technology,2008). This illustrates that whether its on trash/waste or even in
things that we get as in food contamination in great ways the foods we get or
trash we throw away.
The last issue
which remains is poverty that overpopulation may cause. As according to the
article obtained by(ABC-Clio Overpopulation)(2012) explains that overpopulation
is one of the causes in which many kids as even in adults are found in poverty.
Such as The article mentioned before that explains how in third world countries
are suffering on population. Article also explains that in countries that are
low in population have been struggling on poverty and help from the government
while other that are too high in population are having their struggles on their
own. These countries need to try and keep on food shortages, high rates of
diseases as well as deaths,also poverty for job losses, and an unstable
economy. While places with short number of population relies on a decreasing
population as in their young, old, and less healthy old people. One can see
that poverty is happening everywhere in the world no matter in what type of
background they are coming from. Both sides of the story are getting affected
by both having and dealing with the problem of poverty.
One can see
that through these reason that overpopulation has a great effect on each and
one of us even though one doesn’t see or understand it. Overpopulation plays
that game of domino that it can affect something without affecting another
thing. Overpopulation affect the resources we have to garbage and waste that
can lead to poverty even to the extremes of deaths. One should see that
understanding these types of situations can even affect us for we are or maybe
living next to the people who are dealing with poverty as well as having our
yards or parks full of waste. We may even be the ones who for years have been
eating the GE foods that scientist as well as governments wanted to profit
from. One should always have in mind that overpopulation can work only if each
and one of us is willing to work together to use our resources wisely enough to
live decades to come.