Controlling World Population

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An Assessment of Controlling World Population Chinedu S. Ezenma Arts 1110 Ms., Raina Loxley March 4, 2014 An Assessment of Controlling World Population Population control is a way in which the rate of population growth is changed, which has being made possible by limiting birth rates. High population has had an effect to factors like high level of poverty, environmental concerns and religious reasons. In the past years, there has been actions against to population control policies for example, The Roman Catholic Church has disallowed abortion, sterilization and contraception as a general practice but except for population control policies. Many diseases have been cured through the vast knowledge of science. For example, smallpox which took many lives was removed from all countries so was cholera and plagues. Even tuberculosis is now stable. A child’s mortality can be reduced by taking pre-natal and post-natal care and also regular checkup that can prevent the child against tetanus and polio. There has also been a solution for famine which formerly use to take away thousands of lives, through better management of production, storage and distribution. Even methods of producing more food has been creating through GMO (Genetic Modified Organism) e.g. Golden Rice. People have now realized that there are dangers of overpopulation. All countries now know this problem and also that population growth is needed, to the extent it has become a survival necessity. Family planning is now known as a household word, it has become a national effort in some countries. People and children have been warned through different forms of media. Men and women are being allowed to be sterilized at their productive age while free treatment is given such as abortion. The best example of today’s strict population control in China’s one-child policy. This policy of not allowing
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