Haiti has the highest incidence of HIV/Aids in Latin America and the Caribbean - 90% of the HIV/AIDS cases in the Caribbean belong to Haiti. Consequences Overpopulation has created many problems in Haiti destroying families and causing great damage to the country’s political and financial state‚ as well as diminishing the health and vitality of the population. One of the biggest problems in Haiti currently is the spread and containment of disease within the country. Currently due to high densities
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The United States of America has less than 5% of the world’s population‚ but unfortunately has more than 20% of the world’s prison population‚ making it the country with the highest prison rates in the world (American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU]‚ 2016). To put this in perspective‚ China has a population of about 1.4 billion people while the United States has a population of about 324 million people; the prison population in the United States is 2.2 million while China has a prison population of
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21st Century Problems: Deforestation Senator Bill Brady stated‚ “Every time I have some moment on seashore‚ or in the mountains‚ or sometimes in a quiet forest‚ I think this is why the environment has to be preserved‚” but unfortunately in our vast society‚ the environment is having a hard time finding a place in our competitive resource era. Acres of forest are being mowed down by companies to feed their ever growing corporate empires and without being conscious about the problem that leads
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Did you know that there are over 2.4 million healthy dogs and cats in shelters? Did you also know that one every thirteen seconds are euthanized ("Pet Overpopulation: The Humane Society of the United States")? These animals don’t ask to be brought into this world to be put in a small‚ cold enclosed cage. I personally wouldn’t want to be born into the world to be given up on‚ would you? Too many people don’t understand or even care to understand this sad statistic. In fact‚ humanity is so selfish
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There are many misconceptions regarding deforestation and pollution. Beef cattle are often the last that comes to your mind. Water/food - beef cows use 1000 gallons of water are used to make 1 gallon of milk. 2500 gallons of water are used to produce 1 LB of beef. 77 gallons of water are needed to produce lb of eggs. almost 900 gallons of water are needed to produce 1 lb of cheese. World wide cows drink 45 billion gallons of water per day. Animal agriculture consumes 34-76 trillion gallons of
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BACKGROUND INFOMRATION Deforestation occurs for many reasons‚ most deal with expansion of the modern world. Cattle ranching is one of the main causes “of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest” because the beef produced is used to feed urban areas‚ leather and other products are for exporting to other markets (Butler). It accounts for around 70% of deforestation in the Amazon region (Butler). Forests are being cleared for the expansion of agriculture‚ both subsistence and commercial. For or instance
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According to CBBC Newsround‚ it is estimated that seven and a half million acres of rainforests are being cut down each year. If everyone started planting trees‚ we could end deforestation. There are many causes of it‚ impacts‚ and alternatives to deforestation. First of all‚ there are a lot of causes of deforestation. According to the World Wildlife Fund‚ illegal logging plays a key role in it. When illegal logging happens it depresses the price of timber worldwide‚ which disadvantages companies
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The effects of Deforestation on Our Environment Deforestation can cause many societal and environmental problems which can make our lives on earth even more challenging. Some of these challenges include: loss of biodiversity‚ the destruction of forest- based societies and climatic disruption. According to the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio Janeiro‚ biodiversity may be defined as‚ “the variability among living organisms from all sources including‚ inter alia‚ terrestrial‚ marine and other
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huge population China must find ways to sustain their natural resources in order to maintain all of these people. Chinas population is expected to peek in 2030. One of the most important natural resources China is seeing being depleted do to overpopulation is water. The more people a country has the more industrial needs‚ agricultural needs and consumption needs arise. This means that the amount of water in China needs
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(Wright & Boorse‚ 2014). This process causes the soil to erode and become ‘barren” and exposed to the elements (Wright & Boorse‚ 2014‚ p. 276). There are three major contributing factors to soil erosion: overgrazing‚ over cultivation‚ and deforestation. The purpose of this paper is to describe each of these contributors and discuss ways to correct them. The first process is overgrazing. This occurs when there are more animals that graze the same portion of land‚ even though the land cannot
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