One main factor of the economic development and stability of a country are their population growth. If a country has concerns about their population growth and its effect on political stability‚ resources available‚ dependency ratio and economic impact‚ then the country’s government will either try and increase the population growth by enforcing a pro-natalist policy or try to decrease the growth by enforcing an anti-natalist policy. A pro-natalist policy encourages the bearing of children to increase
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Garrett Hardin first wrote “The Tragedy of the Commons”‚ and was published in his Journal in 1968‚ and it is one of the big issue World today face. He has mention tragedy of Common as exploitation of human on the environment without accounting externalities. He has given example on four herdsmen. It generally takes place from agriculture revolution and it proceeding even in post-industrial revolution whereby Hardin have concern on it. This means that common take more advantage from common resources
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At present‚ Earth is experiencing the largest extinction to date‚ triggered by the increase of human activity in recent decades‚ which has been made inexorable succeeding population growth‚ making demands for food and fuel greater than ever. This has led to habitat loss‚ climate change‚ overexploitation‚ pollution and invasive alien species. Biodiversity loss is responsible for destabilizing ecosystems because it weakens their natural cycles‚ reducing the ecosystem’s productivity. It has impacted
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POPULATION EXPLOSION SPEECH With the advancement of technology even some control has been made on natural calamities. Through all these measures though death rate has decreased but birth rate has not appreciably decreased. Thus‚ it will be seen that it is the high birth rate as compared to low death rate‚ which is the main cause of population explosion in India. In under-developed and developing countries the cost of living is increasing day by day. For an average person it has become extremely
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Overpopulation in the Prison System Overpopulation in the Prison System has been a growing concern in society. An explanation for this is the rise in crime over the past years. As the crime rate increases so do the amount of convictions‚ which leads to more incarcerations and overpopulation in the Prison System. The cause for the increase in crime over recent years has been partly attributed to the disappearance of jobs. Many people have been victims in the struggle to find jobs. When faced with
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Overpopulation of Animals in Animal Shelters Overpopulation of Animals in Animal Shelters Tonia Lavine Rogue Community College Over Population of Animals in Animal Shelters Millions of companion animals are being euthanized by animal shelters each year nationwide. One might ask why this is. Is there any one person or persons that is responsible for the over population of animals going to our local shelters? These are all questions that need to be answered. If we as the general public want
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2011‚ just a period of 12 years‚ and the growth rate is still ever increasing. We must slow the increase of our planet’s population before our resources become scarce and our quality of life decreases drastically. We must solve the problem of overpopulation before we‚ the human race‚ reach our carrying capacity. Our population is believed to currently be over seven billion people! That is seven billion people sharing the same planet as us and relying on the same resources as we do. When we reach
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The lithosphere is vital to life on earth. It supports the food webs that sustain life; it provides us with a vast collection of natural resources‚ and it plays a vital role in the purification of the water we drink. We also depend on it to dispose of some of our wastes. The increasing population within the world has had an impact on the lithosphere and consequently as led to the deterioration of this essential component of the biophysical environment. Land degradation has become one of the
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Humanity is undergoing in the post-Cold War era an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the World population. National economies are collapsing‚ unemployment is rampant. Local level famines have erupted in Sub-Saharan Africa‚ South Asia and parts of Latin America. This "globalization of poverty" --which has largely reversed the achievements of post-war decolonization-- was initiated in the Third World coinciding with the debt crisis
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As inevitable as death and taxes‚ the population of the world will continue to grow until the government intervenes. The gross increase in population will generally lead to adverse effects on the environment. In the anthology‚ A Forest of Voices‚ an entry titled "Is It Too Late?" by Anthony Weston deals with the history of legislation for the protection of the environment and stories of it’s destruction that are all too real. Seemingly‚ as the population increases‚ so should the level of intelligence
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