Overpopulation

Paper Summary:

This paper stresses that overpopulation is the number one problem confronting the human race. The author points out that overpopulation was a result of the industrial and agricultural revolutions, which have resulted in better living conditions. The paper concludes that most of the other global problems, such as poverty, disease, violence, war, degradation of natural resources and pollution, are created by overpopulation. Because the earth will not be able to sustain this rapid population growth due to these increasing environmental, economic and social stresses, all people must confront this issue. The author recommends that the solution to overpopulation is to educate people of the problem, which would lead to their limiting the number of children in their families. Includes a graph.

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"A growing population means that there will be more outbreaks of disease. Pimentel believes that the increased density of people in urban environments, especially those with poor sanitation, provides no protection from pollution caused by accumulating of city wastes in water, air, soil, and indeed created favorable conditions for the rapid spread of infectious diseases that can easily reach epidemic proportions. ... In part due to malnutrition and overcrowding of the world population, several diseases are rapidly increasing. For instance, an estimated 2 million people are infected with TB and 2.4 million are infected with malaria."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Babbie, Earl. "Population and Environment." Chapman University. 1998. 12 April 2006. <http://www1.chapman.edu/wilkinson/socsci/sociology/Faculty/Babbie/e211/Ch15-Population.html>.
• Kasun, Jacqueline R. "Overpopulation?" Lifeissues. 2002. 14 April 2006. <http://lifeissues.net/writers/kas/kas_01overpopulation.html>.
• Kinder, Carolyn. "The Population Explosion: Causes and Consequences." Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. 2005. 6 March 2006. <http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/ curriculum/units/1998/7/98.07.02.x.html>.
• Korte, Michael. "Population Issues in China." VirginiaTech. 6 March 2005. <http://filebox.vt.edu/users/mkorte/soc/>.
• National Research Council. The Growth of World Population Analysis of the Problems and Recommendations for Research and Training (1963). Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press. 2001.

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