Overpopulation
Jasmine Bell
04-26-10
My research discusses the problem of overpopulation and what happens when we have too many people and not enough natural resources to support them. In this paper you
will read about the fall of civilizations, natural disasters, and how we could fix it. About 2000 years ago the world was estimated at 300 million people. The population was scattered and most of the world's population existed in the eastern part of the world. It wasn't until the 1800's that the population grew to 1 billion; we were only growing at a rate of one percent each year. During the Industrial Revolution humans invented new medicines and other technology that helped us live long enough to produce more children. As a result growth rates went from one percent each year to 2.4 percent, growing at an exponential rate. “Scientist have estimated by the year 2050 we will reach a population of 9 billion people most of which will come from second and third world countries”. Overpopulation is a problem because it has led to the downfall of civilizations, global warming and not having enough resources to support everyone. We either need to have serious reduction in demand for resources or we need to have zero population growth. This will only work with dedication. We will have to make certain something like putting a child cap law out is actually safe for the population. We never know when a natural disaster will strike or a plague, and with the recent earthquakes it may or may not be a good idea. If we don’t do anything about the problem of overpopulation we could have a major problem which would lead to another lost civilization. If we fix the problem before instead of after then we may have hope after all.

This is my pull quote “Scientist have estimated by the year 2050 we will reach a population of 9 billion people most of which will come from second and third world countries”.




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