Poverty Is Main Cause of Overpopulation

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Poverty and Overpopulation Is the country poor because of the huge number of people or poverty itself is the main cause of population? To answer this question, we have looked at the overall development and population of the world to find the missing links between the two. Human race came into existence about 2 billion years ago and agricultural revolution started about 10,000 years back when people used to hunt and gather food. At that time the world’s population was about 4 million and it started to grow significantly after the agricultural revolution in 1750’s. This rapid increase in population growth termed as population explosion because within less than 300 years population of world went up to 6 billion whereas before this, world’s population grew very slowly for millions of years. As discussed above, In this essay we will explore how poverty can be the main cause behind population increase of our world. First we will examine demographic history of world’s population, food production and economies of different countries. Secondly, we will examine that how did we survive the population explosion in early sixty’s or have we really survived or not? And finally, we will explore the methods to prevent the population growth at a fast pace and methods to control it. Then to explain this, the primary source of information will be by some great experts in their fields such as Prof. David Lam (Economist, University of Michigan), Dr. Nafis Sadik (UN secretary general), Nicholas D. Kristof (Sr. Journalist, New York Times) and some factual evidences and analysis by United Nations and some documentaries. As of today our world’s population is 7 billion people. By 2050, the population is expected to reach 9 billion (UN statistics). Today In this globalized world where rich is becoming more rich and poor is getting more poor, the population is increasing rapidly at a very

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