OVERPOPULATION IN CHINA Nearly 4‚000 cities on our planet today have populations of 100‚000 people or more and these figures are only increasing as the world plummets into a state of extreme overpopulation. Overpopulation refers to the human population‚ the environment and the deepening concern that Earth doesn ’t have enough resources to support the growing global community. “The world population is currently growing by 74 million people per year – the equivalent of a city the size of San Francisco
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OVERPOPULATION Many sources‚ books and articles say that people are the most important natural resources a land could have. People are the ones who develop and take care of the nature. People are also the main users of what the nature could give. It was yesterday when it seems that people are not the problem‚ in fact‚ they are the factors that contributes to the betterment of a nation. Today‚ it seems that people are coming way too fast and many already. Well‚ I say there’s no problem about
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Leslie Maliekal Reading Response to The Myth of Overpopulation 11/24/14 “The Myth of Overpopulation” was written by Michael Craven and published on June 13th‚ 2011 in the Christian Post. The article talks about some of the popular myths that people hold about overpopulation. For example‚ in the past a famous scholar‚ Thomas Malthus‚ believed that the “planet’s rapid increase in population would soon outstrip the planet’s ability to produce food‚ resulting in massive worldwide
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III. IV. Overpopulation’s effect on children in China and India in comparison to America’s more balanced population A. Infant mortality rates are higher in countries with an overpopulation problem than in countries that have room to grow. 1. In countries that struggle with overpopulation‚ such as India and China‚ the economy is in a constant flux that hinders the advancement of life saving health care. With this one issue out of the equation in America‚ she is still able to
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Animal shelters exist in counties across the country in order to manage a problem that seems impossible to solve: overpopulation among cats and dogs. Overpopulation occurs when animals of the same species become successful reproducers. Cats are especially good reproducers. According to PETA‚ in just seven years‚ one female cat and her offspring will generate 370‚000 cats. This staggering statistic exhibits the ramifications of an owner choosing not to get their cat or dog neutered or spayed. The
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Human Overpopulation Increasing human overpopulation throughout the world is one of the biggest global issues addressed in the 21st century. This concept negatively affects almost every aspect of society: extinction of plants/animals or habitats‚ over use of natural resources‚ climate change‚ and other environmental problems (“As World’s Human”). This continual predicament needs to be corrected by intensified human productive abilities and a global law that will stimulate positive outcomes across
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should ever own a pet without having them spayed or neutered. When I say the word pet‚ I am focusing on cats and dogs because they are the most popular pets in the United States‚ yet the citizens of our nation do little to nothing to protect them. Overpopulation is a grandiose problem—and with more strays on the streets than can be counted—to say the problem is out of
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also has enormous problems with overpopulation. The current population is over a billion‚ but India does not have the large land mass that China has. India is experiencing major problems with declining water tables due to over-extraction beyond sustainable yield. India is building desalination plants to solve this problem. Because India has the same population density as Japan‚ some have claimed that India’s poverty is caused by underdevelopment‚ not overpopulation. Increased depletion of natural
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Overpopulation in Africa No one likes to be stuck in a traffic jam. In the unfortunate case that drivers do get caught in heavy congestion‚ however‚ they may question where all of other drivers are travelling to‚ or where they are coming from. Some drivers may even suggest that there are too many people on the roads. On a much grander scale‚ some experts are suggesting that there are too many people in the world‚ and they are concerned that the population is growing too rapidly. Less than
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main sources of water pollution by 30.8%‚ according to Liu Shaojie vice director of the Population Commission in Henan‚ the most environmentally unstable province in China (Jonathan). The Chinese policy’s success can’t be used as evidence that overpopulation is the sole cause of the world’s environmental ills. As stated by Fred Pearce‚ a regular writer for The Guardian
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