Overpopulation In The World

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The time has come where our planet Earth will reach 7 billion people, and this brings up a certain question that people don’t usually think about as much as we should. What does overpopulation mean to us? In the article it talks about how every extra person needs water, food, and energy and causes more waste and causes more pollution to our society. This increases our total impact on the planet, while dropping everyone else’s share of resources as well. This correlates to the rich, more than it does the poor, because the rich have more of the resources, but the poor usually have larger families. “Everywhere we look, we see poverty and large families going hand in hand...We see that those parents who are least fit to reproduce the race are having the largest number of children; while people of wealth, leisure, and education are having small families." – Margaret Sanger“ In the article it says, “total impact and consumption are worked out by measuring the average per person multiplied by the number of people. Thus all environmental (and many economic and social) problems are easier to solve with fewer people, and ultimately impossible with ever more.” This quote is very frightening if one thinks about it. Our population keeps growing, and growing, everyday, and the selected words that were used in this quote in the article, “all environmental problems are easier to solve with fewer people, and ultimately impossible with ever more”. Roger Martin, the author of this article says that it’s impossible for us to have an unlimited population growth on a limited planet, and it truly is. Because of this, we rely heavily on the Malthusian theory of population. Malthus found that the population increased in a geometrical ratio, whereas food supply increases in an arithmetic ratio. This would lead to poverty and famine, which would lead to disease,
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