Human Overpopulation An Amazing And Sensational Place

Zach Friesen Ashley Scheil English April 23rd, 2015 Human Overpopulation The world that we live in is an amazing and sensational place. You spend every day on earth with the opportunity to partake in something incredible. What if I told you that Earth was in jeopardy and humans were the core problem? Today there are approximately 7.2 billion people living on Earth. Just 15 years ago, in the year 2000, we had approximately 6.1 billion people. We experienced an increase of over one billion people in just 15 years. Human overpopulation is a problem in todays society and needs to be taken care before we face critical consequences. We as humans are simply not ready for this kind of population influx and neither is the Earth. You can not deny the fact that there are environmental issues along with poverty occurring across the globe. I am here to tell you that the amount of humans inhabiting this planet is a contributing factor to not only these issues, but several others. If we do not attempt to attain a solution, be prepared to face serious, if not fatal, rep ercussions. Obviously the population of humans has been increasing ever since we began walking amongst this earth. Lets say you believe that population growth is inevitable. According to the Institute for Population Studies, the growth of our population is not inevitable, but an option. If we wanted, we can control the population. (York, 2015) The problem of overpopulation has arisen because we let the forces ofShow MoreRelatedOne Significant Change That Has Occurred in the World Between 1900 and 2005. Explain the Impact This Change Has Made on Our Lives and Why It Is an Important Change.163893 Words   |  656 PagesCentury †¢ Jose C. Moya and Adam McKeown 9 †¢ 2 Twentieth-Century Urbanization: In Search of an Urban Paradigm for an Urban World †¢ Howard Spodek 53 3 Women in the Twentieth-Century World Bonnie G. Smith 83 4 The Gendering of Human Rights in the International Systems of Law in the Twentieth Century †¢ Jean H. Quataert 116 5 The Impact of the Two World Wars in a Century of Violence †¢ John H. Morrow Jr. 161 6 Locating the United States in Twentieth-Century World History