Animal shelters exist in counties across the country in order to manage a problem that seems impossible to solve: overpopulation among cats and dogs. Overpopulation occurs when animals of the same species become successful reproducers. Cats are especially good reproducers. According to PETA‚ in just seven years‚ one female cat and her offspring will generate 370‚000 cats. This staggering statistic exhibits the ramifications of an owner choosing not to get their cat or dog neutered or spayed. The
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Human Overpopulation Increasing human overpopulation throughout the world is one of the biggest global issues addressed in the 21st century. This concept negatively affects almost every aspect of society: extinction of plants/animals or habitats‚ over use of natural resources‚ climate change‚ and other environmental problems (“As World’s Human”). This continual predicament needs to be corrected by intensified human productive abilities and a global law that will stimulate positive outcomes across
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should ever own a pet without having them spayed or neutered. When I say the word pet‚ I am focusing on cats and dogs because they are the most popular pets in the United States‚ yet the citizens of our nation do little to nothing to protect them. Overpopulation is a grandiose problem—and with more strays on the streets than can be counted—to say the problem is out of
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also has enormous problems with overpopulation. The current population is over a billion‚ but India does not have the large land mass that China has. India is experiencing major problems with declining water tables due to over-extraction beyond sustainable yield. India is building desalination plants to solve this problem. Because India has the same population density as Japan‚ some have claimed that India’s poverty is caused by underdevelopment‚ not overpopulation. Increased depletion of natural
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Overpopulation in Africa No one likes to be stuck in a traffic jam. In the unfortunate case that drivers do get caught in heavy congestion‚ however‚ they may question where all of other drivers are travelling to‚ or where they are coming from. Some drivers may even suggest that there are too many people on the roads. On a much grander scale‚ some experts are suggesting that there are too many people in the world‚ and they are concerned that the population is growing too rapidly. Less than
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look further into the area of birth control. Diving deeper into this topic I wanted to see if there were any other articles out there about this topic. I was fortunate enough to find another article from a reputable publication on the topic of overpopulation and sustainability. This article is in question and answer format and was published in The New York Times. "Talk to The Times: Environment Desk" published on Oct 12 included a question about the population problem. It even brought up the fact
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One of the great dilemma’s currently affecting the prison systems is overpopulation‚ and the factors influencing it. America currently has one of the highest prison populations in the world‚ which causes immense overpopulation in both federal and state prisons‚ which in turn create high risk situations within the prisons. As a result‚ many programs and incentives have been created to reduce the recidivism rate for soon to be released inmates‚ many of the programs related to either gaining a higher
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Today‚ it seems that people are coming way too fast and many already. Well‚ I say there’s no problem about it. No problem if these people are from other countries. But sad to say‚ the reality is‚ our nation‚ the Philippines has this problem. Overpopulation is and should be everyone’s concern. It’s not something that we should blame only on the poor or the government or especially only on those who have seemingly taken God’s directive to “go forth and multiply” to heart. It has been a politically
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studying in a separate country from the problematic United States‚ and not all prisoners are psychopaths‚ his thoughts could become helpful in prison overpopulation in the United States. Reisel explains that the criminals he studied had a deficiency in the part of the brain (Reisel‚ 2013). Prisons have been reforming around the world to cut overpopulation in the facilities and allow ex-inmates to become functioning members of society with different efforts put forth to rehabilitate the inmates‚ suggesting
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Overpopulation is Not the Problem As we sailed into the new millennium‚ humans crossed a threshold never before witnessed in our species. We flew past the 6 billion mark in number. This is an impressive figure‚ but not one that we can easily appreciate‚ unless we are Bill Gates or ExxonMobil. Let ’s try to understand how incredibly large this number is. Consider that this article has ~9000 letters. Thus‚ it would take more than 650‚000 copies of it to produce enough letters to
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