Problem and solution essay. Have you ever thought what will happen with us in our nearest future? Is there will be better life than today? When I first saw headlines such as “Better life is coming” or “Future without problems, it’s true”, I was tempted to answer, “Yes”. However, these facts aren’t so widely reported in the newspaper and television. But the nearest future, in fact, is not as fluffy as it seems to be. Moreover, there will more global problems than we have. The population of the world keeps growing. Every 15 seconds, approximately 100 babies are born. Experts predict that by the end of the next century, the population could reach 10 billion people. One of the major problems of population growth is world’s disability to support people by food, and society has responsibility to find some ways to solve that problem. “Rampant population growth and its effect on global food supplies and nutrition are among the most significant challenges for the next century. For instance, of the world nearly 5,800,000,000 people, it is estimated that approximately 800,000,000 are chronically undernourished” (Robert, R., 1999). Furthermore, the Population Institute maintains a position that approximately 74 countries have tendency to increase their population for 100 percent in nearest future and global famine and starvation will take place in our life.
Food shortage is caused firstly, by population explosion in addition to political unsteadiness, economic growth and disorganization. These comprise declining natural resources, degradation, land erosion and urbanization. One of the possible methods of solving the problem of hunger and famine caused by rapid population growth is using fertilizers in agriculture. There are some advantages of using fertilizers. First of all fertilizers are compounds given to plants to promote growth. So the main goal can be achieved, food output increases significantly. Nowadays, mostly Asian countries are