Overpopulation and population crowding by Aaron Do
There are soon to be over 8 billion individuals on this Earth. That number is higher than can be imagined by our human brains. We are using up all of the Earth's resources and more and more people are slipping into poverty as resource production stagnates while populations continue to rise. In China, the government has restricted how many children their citizens can have. Is this a right that can be taken away? In India, there are so many people overcrowded in a small area that disease spreads like wildfire. Even here in the US, people in the western states are restricted in how much water they can use, due to the droughts. These provisions are here in order to provide for everyone. There is no simple fix for overcrowding because reducing the population(legally) is a gradual process.
There is a light at the end of the tunnel, however. Today's adults are having much less kids than a couple generations prior, and dreams of getting resources from other planets are starting to bear fruit and make progress. I'm cheering for Elon and Jeff, and hopefully their dreams come to fruition.
This was pretty interesting. I didn't know that this was a big issue! I think that this should be brought to others attention so that people can become more aware of this problem. Although, restricting the amount of children someone can have, in my opinion, is defiantly a rights violation, but does it have to be done?
ReplyDeletePeople are having fewer kids, but we're also all living longer, creating more people here at the same time. Interesting topic!
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