In 2008‚ the world experienced one of the greatest numbers of deaths from natural disasters. Some of the contributing factors included extreme weather brought about by climate change‚ as well as urbanization in vulnerable areas. The urbanisation phenomenon is a feature that is being shared by all cultures across all continents on the globe‚ it not so much a result of higher birth rates in urban areas as it is of the continuous migration of people across regions as they are lured into urban areas
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Without being unnecessarily pessimistic but only realistic‚ I generally consider that the future of mankind looks rather dark and unpromising due to the irretrievable damages that technological advances‚ overpopulation and environmental problems have already caused and will probably continue to cause to human race in the future. Even though I agree some improvements in these areas have been made‚ to me they are not enough to stop the downward spiral of negative impact on mankind. First‚ advanced
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Problematic Aspects of Emigration to Emigrants and the Host Country Emigrants move from their home nations to begin a new life in another‚ yet once they reach their host countries‚ they face challenges that they never anticipated. More often than not‚ many of these emigrants have endured hardships of all forms in their home nations‚ but most of them are treated to a surprise when they realize that what awaits them in their new home nation is far much worse than what they are running from (Dalla
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CORRUPTION Evolutionary theory: One of the social problems that Philippines has been facing today is corruption. It’s been a major problem of the country since years ago. Corruption is as old as human history. But when was the concept of corruption started? In my opinion‚ corruption has started when people have organized themselves into groups‚ and that groups were headed by leaders and those leaders became powerful and began to abuse the authority they have. We‚ people chose leaders that became
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Is Overpopulation the Cause of Poverty? There are many people who argue that the biggest problem in South Asia is overpopulation. This assertion has been repeated so often over the years that it has almost become common wisdom. Its adherents include a lot of well-educated individuals and one often hears the argument from government officials as an explanation for the inability to reduce poverty. There are a number of problems with this simple proposition. First of all‚ population is not a very
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diseases and people with longer healthier lives. There are downsides to altering genetics too‚ longer lives means and fewer diseases means overpopulation and the struggles that come with that Scientists are also unsure of the long term effects that changing genetics could have. Scientists should not be allowed to genetically engineer offspring because of overpopulation‚ the uncertainty of long-term effects‚ and the absence of the needed genetic mutations could greatly affect humans as a
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Effects of over population in Mexico City There are parts of the world that have an alarming overpopulation rate‚ one of these locations is Mexico city which is located in the Federal District‚ Capital of the Country of Mexico. Mexico City’s enormous population continues to rapidly increase every day. With approximately 20 million residents; up from 9 million only 20 years ago‚ Mexico City is considered the most populous urban center on earth. There are many people in the country of
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Sciences Liceo de Cagayan University In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements in English 2 By Carl Gilbert Dal October 2012 THE PROS AND CONS OF THE R.H BILL Thesis Statement Poverty and overpopulation are two of the biggest national concern the Philippines have right now. Many solutions have been made to alleviate these problems but none of them seem to work. One of which is The Reproductive Health Bill of the Philippines‚ or RH Bill. This
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Philippines - population Population‚ total The value for Population‚ total in Philippines was 93‚261‚000 as of 2010. As the graph below shows‚ over the past 50 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 93‚261‚000 in 2010 and a minimum value of 26‚010‚300 in 1960. Definition: Total population is based on the de facto definition of population‚ which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship--except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum‚ who are
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Guns can be used for a lot more than violence so why take them away. Guns are used for a lot of different sports. People can use them for self-defence. Guns can be used to get food. Gun law should be less strict. Gun laws should be less strict because guns are used for a lot of different sports. There’s a part of the olympics called the three shotgun ISSF/ shooting event.“They shoot clay birds launchd by a trap”(jonsson). The event has very strict rules like you have to use a lever action and keep
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