Christian Traven 11/3/14 ENGL 145 34 Million Sardines in a Can Is there anything more frustrating than sitting in rush hour traffic‚ day after day‚ knowing that it will never get better? How does standing in line at the grocery story‚ spending a full day at the DMV‚ or having to squeeze into the packed elevator in a downtown high-rise sound? These are but a few minor‚ yet inconvenient‚ effects of the population explosion we Californian’s are facing. Our geographical space is not getting any larger
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the one-child policy. The one-child policy has prevailed effectively in slowing down the population growth‚ but it has caused great anguish among Chinese families. Matt Rosenberg explains how one of the problems facing China in recent years is overpopulation. The Chinese government needed to make a policy to cope with the growing numbers of Chinese citizens. China remains the only country in the world where it is illegal to have a brother or sister. China’s one child policy became established by the
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population? Population is all organisms that both belong to the same species and live in the same geographical area. The Webster Dictionary defined population as the total number of persons inhabiting in a country‚ city or any district or area. Overpopulation is the most crucial issue in the Philippines. Many people suffer from poverty‚ hunger and slackness due to some conflicts the government cannot sustain the primary needs of its people‚ as the issue concerns the government still finding a adequate
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Taking care to protect the environment against damage Each and every living organism has specific surroundings or medium with which is continuously interacts‚ and to which it is fully adapted. This surrounding is the ‘natural environment’. The word ‘natural environment’ brings to mind broad aspects of landscape‚ such as soil‚ water‚ desert or mountains which can be more exactly described in terms of physical influences such as differences in moisture‚ temperature‚ texture of soil‚ and biological
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One-child Policy Should Not be Abolished In the 1970`s‚ Chinese government implemented one-child policy for Chinese families to control the rapidly growing population (Zhang and Goza 2006). This policy‚ although passed into law for almost 40 years‚ has come under much heated debate on whether China should maintain it or abolish it altogether. Along with Chinese population structure changing‚ two social issues‚ population aging and imbalance of sex ratio arise and gradually become manifest. One-child
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program was developed to show the worst-case scenario for human civilization. Again‚ we are not saying that these events will happen -- rather‚ that if we fail to seriously address the complex problems of climate change‚ resource depletion and overpopulation‚ they are much more likely to happen. Lucy is born June 2‚ 2009 (changed to January 1‚ 2009 in subsequent airings)‚ in the suburbs of Miami and is still alive in the year 2100. In 2015‚ she moves into an apartment in Miami and a few months later
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overpopulated and so the government is trying to ease population pressures on Islands such as Java by spreading out development to some of the more remote islands like Maluku. This means that many people living in Indonesia will migrate away‚ as overpopulation means there is a lack of resources in that area‚ such as food‚ water and even jobs. A lot of pressure is put on the areas they migrate to because over three million people have moved there. A lot of the rainforest in the area has had to be cleared
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Improving the economic status of a country is one reason why the government should stabilize population. Overpopulation will put a tremendous burden on a government. The government needs pay more attention to solve the problems that overpopulation brings to them‚ such as education‚ pension and traffic issues. It means that the government must provide sufficient funds to deal with them. Moreover，overpopulation causes a decrease in per capita income. Obviously‚ rapid population growth has a negative effect
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The impact of population to the country A lot of studies suggest that population has a direct impact to the economy of a country. More specifically‚ several papers came out highlighting that the Philippines is already overpopulated and this is causing the economic woes of the country. A Policy Brief by the Philippine Center for Population and Development in 2010 categorically stated that “The rapid population growth in the Philippines over the last several decades has hindered the country’s economic
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Effects of Food Scarcity “Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?” by Lester R. Brown Article Summary “Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?” is a somewhat absurd but well written article. Lester R. Brown‚ the author‚ does a prodigious public favor in trying to wake the human race up to three facts: we must stop using hydrocarbons for transportation‚ burning coal for electricity‚ and stabilize the population which is predicted to rise quickly. It is a clear and dramatic statement
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