...India, the official name Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. India is the seventh largest country by total area, and the second by population. India's coastline is over 7517 kilometers. India is the cradle of several religions in Asia, and these are Hinduism and, Buddhism, . The South Asian country is considered as one of the countries that in recent decades has achieved great economic development very quickly, and "Economy" 12'të largest of the world. In addition to economic development, poverty in India is a reality. A significant number of the populations of India are illiterate. Throughout history, lived in India many cultures, races, different religions. In India is problem with economy even economy is developing quickly many Indian cities were crowded with millions of people. The environmental problems could only get worse by an increase in the number of people. Overpopulation is serious problem the world is faced with and this should be solved. People in India have old habits, and young girls are married by the binding of old habits. Women’s rights are not respected by many families in India especially when it comes to marriage; they are obligated to marry someone who was chosen by father or relatives. Probably the most important is the tradition of dowry payment to a prospective husband. Having to marry a girl off may be the equivalent of several years of income for a family. A daughter is often seen as a thief who will rob necessary resources . Restrictive...
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...Overpopulation and its Contenders Population has become a challenge in the world today. In recent years, there has been a significant amount of growth in the world population. According to the Census Bureau, at the start of this year, the United States population will have reached a new record of more than 317 million people. That makes us the third most populous country on the planet, behind only China (1.35 billion) and India (1.23 billion) (Schlesinger 2013). This has led to sever problems for poor nations developing and developed countries all around the world. Therefore, government of these countries need to take immediate action to control population. There appears to be many problems caused by overpopulation. The first of these is the depletion of resources. The Earth can only produce a limited amount of water and food, which is falling short of the current needs. Degradation of Environment, rise in unemployment, and a higher cost of living are among the additional problems that are caused by overpopulation. Furthermore, a number of solutions might be made to control birth rates by the government. First and foremost, I would like to acknowledge that I do not support the government in taking actions to limit the number of children we are allowed to have. I believe that this type of control violates a much-cherished personal freedom in starting a family and passing your genes on to your offspring. Instead of limiting us, they can educate residents about...
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...Planet and Population India Select a single country or small set of related countries; examine recent and projected population growth rate in detail, including the factors contributing to the growth rates and trends in those rates. Compare with similar information for the United States or Canada. India’s history over the past 70 years has made remarkable progress. Improvements in the health and education systems, making Indians live longer as well as more schooling, which has had tremendous results. However there are still issues to be solved in order to improve living conditions across geographic and gender lines. “The future population size largely depends on whether the birth rate continues to fall, especially in the heavily populated north and in rural areas where contraceptive use is currently lower. United Nations 2015 projections show India at 1.3 billion in 2015 and possibly reaching 1.7 billion people in 2050”. India is currently the second most populous country in the world. With approximately 19 million people added every year, the country provides more to annual world population growth than any other country. In the next 10 years India is set to reach two major milestones. The first will exceed China to become the world’s most populous country and secondly reach replacement fertility as families have fewer children. With a growing population there is always the pros and the cons of the expansion of the land. Some of the issues India will start to find as the...
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...The Sated Hunger Throughout the history of mankind, starvation has been one of the most exigent problems that humans have encountered. Exponential growth of population along with financial crisis generated a chronic food shortage all around the globe. Despite these adversities, Norman Borlaug, the father of the Green Revolution, saved billions of lives by introducing an exceptionally vital genetically modified organism (GMO). Not only had this eminent GMO diminished suffering from privation, its influences have been shown through social and political advancements. Hence, Norman E. Borlaug, who fully utilized his understanding of genetics which unlocked the secret of how life works, is the most influential scientist in the course of history. In the middle of the 20th century, the whole world was undergoing catastrophic circumstances due to World War II and inflation. Eventually, these calamities led to acute famine. Numerous countries attempted to ameliorate their situations by husbandry; however, the lands were not arable on account of poor soil quality, inefficient strategies, and ineffectual grains. Although the situation seemed incorrigible, Norman Borlaug firmly believed that there was a way to engender a high yielding grain: invent a genetically modified grain by uncovering a secret of genome. In the 1940s, he started conducting research in Mexico with thousands of different crops to breed the highest yielding crop. Through Backcrossing, a crossing of hybrid which was used...
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...Population in India There has been a fast growth in the population of India during the past decade and a half. According to the US Census Bureau, the population of India is 1.27 billion (2013), which is one of the highest in the world. In this population, a child is born in India every second. (Shirras 1) However 76 per cent of India’s total population survives on less than US$2 each day. Majority of people from small villages in India move to bigger cities, where they live in slums. These slums are overcrowded and there isn’t any source of clean water and electricity for them. As a result, cities like Mumbai, Calcutta and New Delhi are full of individuals that are unemployed because they are not able to acquire good education. Those lacking education fail to understand the need to prevent excessive growth of population. They are not able to understand the harmful effects of the increase in population. The limited resources that the country has are also being used by people very quickly. Medical situations are getting poorer day by day and many diseases are spreading faster. (Shirras 1). Overpopulation results in serious environmental problems in India. These include pressure on land, land/soil degradation, destruction of creatures, air and water pollution, global warming and climate modification. In 1970s and 1980s, the government of India tried controlling the overpopulation issues by forcing individuals get sterilized, which controlled India’s population to some extent...
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...10/15/12 Eng 201H Overpopulation Since the year of 2011, the world population climbs up the ladder to seven billion people. According to a survey given out by SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, overpopulation is the world’s top environmental issue, followed by climate change (Science Daily). Overpopulation started through the third world countries, where most people are not being educated or given the option of contraceptives due to cultural reasons. With the rate of the human population growing, the risks of human going through starvation and illnesses due to environmental issues increase every day. Environmental risks due to the depletion of forests, fresh water, fossil fuels, and land that all consumed by humans. Overpopulation might not seem as a serious issue to people that disagrees about human overpopulating the Earth has causes major damage and tragedy around the world, but because of overpopulation, we are a step closer to turmoil. Traditionally, human population increases because people are eager to pass on genes and or last names to the next generations; especially those people that in countries that in extremely poor conditions follows those traditions. Mary Ellen Harte, a journalist from the Los Angeles Times mentions about how females are “culturally conditioned daily to welcome the idea of having children – plural, not one or none” (Harte). Many women whether being under cultural influence or not, lack the idea on how to support those children...
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...Various Countries Currently, the world population is reaching an estimated number of 7,094 million people or about 7 billion (Population Connection, 2013) and is growing by 145 people every minute or 2.4 every second (CIA World Factbook, 2012). The increase in world population happens usually because of the faster decline in death rate than the birth rate due to more availability of antibiotics, immunization, clean water and increased food production which improved child lives and decreases infant mortality. Too much population growth in a region, a city or a country can result as overpopulation. Overpopulation refers to a condition when the number of the population exceeds the capacity of their living habitats and the existence of their resources, it normally occurs from the unbalanced rate of birth and deaths, an increase in immigration, or an unsustainable biome and depletion of resources. Overpopulation is generally considered as a disadvantage as it may contribute to multitudinous problems such as environmental deterioration, low life qualities, good deficiency, and fatal issue such as population collapse. This essay will emphasize on the diversity of negative aspects of population growth in various countries on their environments, economy, and society. The major and largest factor related to my idea of too much population growth as a disadvantage towards most countries is its effects on the countries’ environment and natural resources. According to the Population Connection...
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...countries will triple the population within 50 years. From the income/birth and death rate per 1000people, we can see that as the income raises, the gap between birth rate and death rate increases. The death rate decreases as income increases but so does the birth rate, however the death rate decreases by a higher margin. Half the world’s population growth happens in six countries: India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Indonesia. More economically develop countries often find out that between 1800 and 1900, the death rate is almost equal to birth rate; however in less developed countries, there were 3 times more births than deaths by 1900. What impact does population growth have on resources and international conflict? The problem with overpopulation is that there are not enough resources spread across the world, some parts of the world has too much and some do not have at all. This is mainly the problem because resources are scarce in places where the birth rates are much higher than death rates which mean the problem is increasing in importance over time. However, we must understand that overpopulation is not the sole reason places with high population growth suffer from hunger. The main reasons for this are poverty and politics, governments that are not able to provide for their people and no monetary resources to purchase food. The world...
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...Global Context of Business Overpopulation & Overconsumption As a species, we tend not to talk too much about population growth, but we all know it is there. Modern man first showed up on earth over 50,000 years ago, and by 1850 we had reproduced to such amount that we reached the 1 Billion people mark. The next billion took only 100 years, compared to over 50 thousand years for the first one. In 2011 world population reached 7 billion. According to the Population Institute, which focuses on raising awareness about overpopulation, we add around 220,000 people per day, which amounts to around 80 million people per year, or 1 billion every 12 years. Currently, for every two people who die, four more are born. Many experts argue that population growth will cap at around 10-11 billion by the end of the century, and therefore we shouldn’t concern ourselves too much with this issue. This may very well be true, however, 11 billion people leading the lifestyle of a middle class citizen in a developed country is nowhere near sustainable, and this is certainly a big cause for concern. Therefore, as humans we need to define what is the underlying problem and how do we tackle future challenges. There are plenty of arguments for and against overpopulation. Many argue that population controls have to be applied in order to stop grown, such as China’s one child policy. Others say that population growth is unstoppable and therefore we have to focus more on how we deal with it rather...
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...Institutional Affiliation (“Population | Define Population at Dictionary.com,” n.d.), defines population as the overall number of people who reside in a given area, region, state or a country. However, the ever-increasing rate of population growth is alarming and becoming an issue of concern in nations like India. India has the second world largest population. With the current growth in population levels, India is estimated that it will have the highest population in the world by the year 2030. High populations have its advantages which may include large number of work force. However, high rates of population growth comes with key problems such as lack of and/or inadequate resources, high levels of unemployment, alarming levels of poverty spread, increasing people who are uneducated among many other unforeseen problems. Ajit Singh Katal in (“What shall we do about our Ever-Increasing Population? - Group Discussion,” n.d.), Says that education is the only ways to fight with the emerging problem of overpopulation. The public and the community as a whole should be made to know the consequences of overpopulation. Teenage pregnancy is a major contributor towards the population. South Africa’s president, Jacob Zuma in (“Take babies from teen moms: Zuma - Politics | IOL News,” n.d.), says that teen mothers should be forced to go back to school. The government should educate them until when they get employed and are able to take care of their kids. ...
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...resources, while 82% of US.-based members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) said the same” We all know that slums are formed as a result of overpopulation, and the two terms that are most commonly associated with slums are; poverty and crime. When the population is too high, there is typically not enough money, food or water to go around, therefore people will often resort to desperate measures to get a hold of one of those three commodities. We can see this connection between population density and crime in places like the favelas in Brazil and our local townships here in South Africa. An excerpt from a page on www.everythingconnects.org gives us a clear explanation : “As human overpopulation drives resources and basic necessities, such as food and water, to become scarcer, there will be increased competitiveness for these resources which leads to elevated crime rates due to drug cartels and theft by people in order to survive. As Aisha Tariq of the Pakistan Times states, "It has been observed that the countries which have balanced population, crime rate is very low in such regions. When people are not provided with the basic necessities, it elevates crime rate."” Although there have been many relief projects aimed at preventing and fixing issues caused by overpopulation, there has been little to no actual change in the overall state of the world in this regard, thus leaving us with having to find new ways of battling the issue. 2 How can...
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...Human Overpopulation Not that long ago, humans were still struggling to survive in a world plagued with diseases, predators, and unknown dangers. The harsh natural environment functioned to keep our population growth in check. However, since the last century, the human population had grown exponentially. Our survival is no longer threatened by other species and harsh environmental conditions. In fact, there is a new concern for the modern society—overpopulation. According to The American Heritage Science Dictionary, overpopulation is “The population of an environment by a particular species in excess of the environment's carrying capacity”. In addition, “the effects of overpopulation can include the depletion of resources, environmental deterioration, and the prevalence of famine and disease”. In the case of human overpopulation, human is the species that is in excess of the Earth’s carrying capacity. If human overpopulation is in fact a legit concern, then the effects mentioned in the definition above would most likely follow in the distant future. In order to prevent the negative consequences of overpopulation, humans must understand what specifically caused the population growth, how does population growth affect the world, what are the implications of overpopulation, and how to mitigate the effects of overpopulation. Although our population is a huge number compared to what it was in the past, we cannot conclude that we are overpopulated based on that comparison. In...
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...During my expedition through the Museum of Modern Art in San Jose I saw a photograph that hit me like a bolt of lightning and got me thinking about probably the world’s biggest problem, overpopulation. The photograph I saw was called Architecture of Density and it was taken by photographer and artist Michael Wolf. The photograph portrayed a massive building in Hong Kong that looked as if it was built to house thousands of people using the least amount of space possible. The apartment building seemed to be designed to have people crammed together with no room to move. Although Wolf’s main focus of his picture was to show viewers that the culture of Hong Kong starts in the homes of the people, I saw Wolf’s photograph as a look into the far more complicated issue of overpopulation, whose effects are currently felt worldwide and are slowly getting worse. Human overpopulation on earth is the leading cause of many of the planet’s problems. Overpopulation is defined as “excessive population of an area to the point of overcrowding, depletion of natural resources, or environmental deterioration”, (Answers). The problems caused by the overpopulation of humans range from the extreme of global warming/climate change, pollution, water shortages, desertification and depletion of other resources to other smaller problems such as deforestation, species extinction and overcrowding. However unfortunately, few governments or government officials around the world are willing to look...
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...from other countries. But still, the main causes of poverty can be narrowed down into three main ideas, social causes, political causes and economic causes. The social causes of poverty can be narrowed down to two main topics, overpopulation and education. Overpopulation, as defined by Fight Poverty organization (n.d), is when a number of people live in a mass of land with deficiency in resources to support them. For example, Bangladesh is one of the most overpopulated countries with 1,078 persons per square km and the people there work in manual farming, but because of overpopulation, this contributes to the country's high level of poverty. Also, the land there is infertile and lacks the economic resources and technology to boost productivity. As a consequence it is in a state of poverty. In conclusion, overpopulation plus the lack of resources in the land contribute to poverty. When an area has more people than it can support, some of them would have sufficient resources and the others would live in shortage. This would lead to poverty and to class separation in the community between the have and they have not. Overpopulation is a problem in poor countries and it is making them even poorer, in developed countries, overpopulation is not a big problem because they have rules for family planning such as restraining the birth rate, for example in China. However, in under developed countries, high birth rates cause more need for resources which in turn, leads to more...
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...overconsumption is a larger threat to the world than over population. Overpopulation has long been seen as a hindrance to world development, in 2014 the world population is currently 7 billion, there is no doubt that the world has experienced a mass rise in population. Most of this increase has occurred in the developing world, the world population rises by approximately 83 people annual and 99% of this increase happens in the less developed regions of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. For example, Africa’s population, despite the AIDS epidemic has tripled to 926 million from 1960 to 2005, whilst Asia’s population doubled to 3.9BN in this period. Six countries account for half of this total increase in world population; these are; India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh and Indonesia. Contrasting to this the population of the developed world has actually fallen. The United Nations predict that by 2050, the world’s population will reach 9.2 billion, the population of less economically developed countries is expected to rise from 4.9BN (2001) to 8.2BN (2050). Thomas Malthus (1766-1843) argued that populations increase in size at a much faster rate than the ability of those same populations to feed themselves. He concludes that these limits on food supply lead to natural checks on the population, such as famine and malnutrition, perhaps even war and increase death rates. He argues that overpopulation needs to be avoided by delaying marriage and abstaining from sex....
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