Is a Population Overflow Possible?

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?Is a population overflow possible? The world now supports seven billion people and that number has been growing increasingly fast over the years. We’ve been saying for decades that the world will become over populated, that we’ll run out of resources, and room. This has been said so often though that some people are starting to believe that the world will be able to support any number of people in the future & that running out of room will never be a threat. Every time the world has been under the danger of overpopulation we have came up with alternative ways to solve the problem. I believe that we can live sustainably on this earth for a lot longer, but there is a stopping point for space. We can try to change it for our needs but eventually that won’t work anymore & we will need to move our people elsewhere or find a quick way to reduce the population which could have an unsightly conclusion. The first reason I believe that the world cannot support any number of humans in the future is because we are already running out of resources. There are countries that are already starving and using filthy water. In the United States the prices on groceries and fuel are rising due to the limited supply. A shortage of clean useable water has become a threat all over the world; we’ve begun using ground water & are quickly exhausting many aquifers. “The rate of extraction from aquifers more than doubled in the 40 years to 2000. It has continued to soar since then”, says an article in the National Times. The loss of fertile soil and arable land are other problems were running into. If we proceed to let our population grow we will have to use even more of that farm land for housing and businesses to support our exceedingly hefty population. Which would once again mean fewer crops, and the prices of groceries would rise again. The more people we have on this earth

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