Overpopulated Prison’s and California’s Solution Barbara Leigh Werner Everest University Online California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Mistake Recently a Federal Judge has court ordered California Officials to reduce the California Inmate population that is crowding their State Prisons within a six month time frame. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is again disappointing the California people and creating a newly revised strategy to drain the pockets of several California
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Overpopulation Overpopulation is a generally undesirable condition where an organism’s numbers exceed the carrying capacity of its habitat. The term often refers to the relationship between the human population and its environment‚ the Earth‚ or smaller geographical areas such as countries. The population has been growing continuously since the end of the Black Death‚ around the year 1400‚ although the most significant increase has been in the last 50 years‚ mainly due to medical
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Overpopulation is a condition where an organism’s numbers exceed the carrying capacity of its habitat. In common parlance‚ the term often refers to the relationship between the human population and its environment‚ the Earth.[1] Overpopulation does not depend only on the size or density of the population‚ but on the ratio of population to available sustainable resources. It also depends on the way resources are used and distributed throughout the population If a given environment has a population
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five and under population is malnourished. Thirty-seven percent has little to no access to water safe for drinking and cooking. Bombay has nearly fifteen million people sleeping on sidewalks and living in the streets. These are the effects of overpopulation on India. There simply are not enough goods to go around. Additionally‚ there is insufficient infrastructure to deliver the available goods to the people that need them the most. Another argument about the effects of
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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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Technology is the Solution to Overpopulation About ten years ago while in a science museum‚ I saw a counter that estimated what the world population was at that given moment. Innocuous at first glance‚ since a number in excess of five billion is difficult to comprehend‚ what became alarming after watching the counter for a minute was the continual increase in the population. Thinking about the circumstances related to the population rise logically made the problem seem apparent. The earth is
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paper is not advocating for war‚ it is human. However‚ when the world’s population keeps growing and nothing is being done to curb it‚ then war becomes an alternative. Human beings must learn that the effects of population explosion are gross and worse than the effects of war. In future‚ when the data rises to 9 billion‚ then people will start wishing for even conflicts because the repercussions will be too
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allowing for a deeper integration of the reader into the given context. With several fonts of information embedded in this article from TIMES magazine‚ Olivia Waxman articulates the momentum in which American society is tuning on the issue of overpopulation. The consensus is‚ again‚ the need to control the birthrate‚ thus diminishing (or try to) population growth. One of the sources the author uses is Stanford entomologist Paul Ehrlich who argues that “it was time for a population-control movement
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in 1973‚ known as Soylent Green‚ presented a world in which the solution to famine created by global overpopulation was feeding people the processed remains of their own kind. While obviously an extreme example‚ this movie temporarily put a spotlight on the seemingly inevitable overpopulation of our planet and the problems it would bring. One might ask what‚ exactly‚ overpopulation is. Overpopulation is defined as “a state in which the population size of a species has passed the carrying capacity of
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Possible Overpopulation Solutions The human population growth of the last century is tremendous. It required only forty years after 1950 for the population to double from 2.5 billion to 5 billion. The factors affecting global human population are very simple. They’re fertility‚ mortality‚ initial population and time. India‚ China and USA are the top countries that are currently in crisis because of overpopulation. Many of our basic resources are strained such as‚ food; one out of every seven
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