Negative Effects Of Population Growth

The article by Dennis Dimick brings up some very good points about the increasing population. He states that with our current population of 7 billion people, we currently do not have enough food to eat. With the population increasing day-by-day, we will face more shortage in the future. He also brings up the issue of natural resources. We are currently using so much natural resources that we will run out very soon. The use of natural resources tend to increase with increase in social standing (wealth).

Tribolium confusum, more commonly known as the confused flour beetle, is frequently used in scientific observations typically regarding population growth with experiments using these beetles dating back decades ago (Medici and Taylor, 1966). The beetles are relatively easy to handle, cheap to feed, and provide a short reproductive cycle allowing for multiple experiments in a short time span (Park, 2013). Tribolium confusum’s dietary habits consist of mainly grain based products such as wheat and flour. Therefore, these fast reproducing beetles embody the type of organism this research project requires. The nature of the experiment is intended to study, analyze, and calculate the differences in population growth between

Beyond a doubt we urgently need to address the devastating global issue of population growth in the United States America before we destroy our planet. We are facing many devastating economic problems, such as pollution, global warming, education, but the most critical is overconsumption. Overpopulation is a huge problem in the United States of America, which is causing us to run out of natural resources. The human race is already too large and is destroying the natural systems that support us. There are many solutions to this problem, but the common factor is controlling the human race. What can we do as a society to help contribute to controlling the population growth? “The United States is the most overpopulated country in the world” (Ehrlich).

The world is being over populated with humans not only in China but in the United States of America as well. The problem isn’t as obvious in the United States as in other countries, but I believe over-populated nations will soon become a problem everywhere in the world. Population is not a bad thing in all situations, but I think that our population growth problem is un-healthy and needs to slow down. I believe there are several ways to come about this problem as well. Population can be slowed down in many ways; it’s just how we choose to execute this problem.

In exponential population growth, a population's growth will remain the same regardless of the population size, making the amount of people in that area grows faster and faster as it gets larger. In nature, populations may grow exponentially for some period, but they will ultimately be limited by resource availability. For example whenever you have any kind of organism you must be mindful of the exponential population grown because they could take over an area just by reproducing. “An organism is “An individual form of life, such as a plant, an animal, a bacterium, a protist, or a fungus; a body made up of organs, organelles, or other parts that work together to carry on the various processes of life” (The American Heritage® Science Dictionary, 2017). Imagine that we bought two fish with a pair of male and female fish in a fish aquarium. Now, if these fish and their offspring reproduced at top speed over a 10-year period of time, without any fish dying, we would run out of room in the fish tank.

There are a number of factors that can contribute to the growth of a population and these trends can be seen in a number of species. It is generally believed, from an ecological perspective, that populations will display either an exponential of logistic growth rate. If optimal environments are consistently maintained with no biotic or abiotic limiting factors (excess food, excess space availability, optimum climactic environment, no predation, etc) then a population will grow in an exponential direction. Species with high maximal relative growth rates do not occupy infertile habitats because their physiologies are more sensitive to suboptimal habitats and so their relative growth rates decrease more rapidly as fertility

One of the problems facing our world is population. It began about ten thousand years ago when the humans settled and began farming. The farming provides more food for the people thus making the population grow. Now we are about 6 billion in population and in a few years we will be around 10 to 11 billion. Therefore, our population will

No Population can have an ongoing exponential growth without having a limit that rules over the population’s size. This limit is called the carrying capacity. Carrying capacity is the number of people, animals and crops that a region can support without environmental degradation. The way things are now, the human population is going to break through its carrying capacity very soon. Exceeding the carrying capacity means that the number of humans roaming the earth is greater than the number of humans the food supply can hold. Therefore, the only way to avoid a future battle for food is by reducing the birth rate of newborns in families across the globe.

Nowadays humanity accepts its more than huge population as normal, assuming that the overwhelming amount of people, with all their life processes and results of their activities do not harm the ecosystem of our planet. The majority of contemporary people falsely believe that we can continue to increase in our numbers, and that this practice does not affect the environment, flora, fauna and the life of humanity itself. Despite everything seems normal, humanity has already crossed all the borders and limits, presented by our planet. The Earth is not able to sustain such large population of people.

Life is a precious thing but when does producing life become a problem? Human population growth has been a topic of discussion, among one of the many concern the world faces now. Human population growth in the twentieth century has become a slow growth rate. And even though population growth rate has decreased does not mean we are in the clear. Human population growth issues are influenced: health concerns, accessing education and technology

This rapid increase in the population is causing lots of environmental, economic, social, political, educational and health issues. People should be aware of the problems because if they did not then we will be facing many problems in future. Moreover, overpopulation can affect on our health because of the factories that release toxins in the atmosphere, which led to air pollution and land pollution. In addition, the environment will face many huge issues if the population kept increasing. Many countries have economic problems and some of them live in poverty all that because the sudden increase of the population. Eventually the over use of resources can harm us badly if we did not find solutions in the near future.

From 1950 to 2005 the Earth’s population has risen from 2.5 billion to 6.5 billion according to the Population Reference Bureau. One of the first people to say that human population growth is not always a good thing was Thomas Malthus. In 1968 Paul Ehrlich wrote a book called The Population Bomb, which rose awareness on the possible impact of a rapidly growing human population. When this book was written the thought of controlling the population was not a popular opinion, and not all of the predictions he made in this book happened, but that does not change the fact that the quickly growing population has a big impact on our environment.

Two hundred years ago less than one billion humans roamed the earth. Today the current world population stands at 7.3 billion and is expected to reach 8.5 billion by 2030 (source UN) this is due to the decline in death rates and increase in birth rates. The population has seen fluctuations, and changes over the centuries with astonishing peaks during the 20th century. In order to understand these changes, we will need study the growth, the explosions and drops in the world’s population. In this unit, we will therefore be analysing the causes of population change as well as the potential consequences.

The population of the earth has grown immensely over the past few hundred years, one of the most prominent spikes occurred towards the agricultural age and again during the industrial age. The Earth’s carrying capacity, how many people the Earth can hold without depletion, cannot sustain the growing population for much longer. The increasing human population has also increased its consumption. The population and connection with increases in consumption have many negative effects towards human sustainability. Some of the ways in which the human population can become more sustainable include regulating fertility rates and limiting product production. A study by researchers at the University of Central Florida found that making college students more aware of their consumption levels can actually limit their consumption levels (Grauerholz). Pollution is another factor that contributes the sustainability of the human population. More pollution and human activities will result in less available resources such as clean air (Trevors). Not only will this affect the human population, but also the populations of other living organisms. Lack of resources, for example, can lead to the extinction of animals. To maintain sustainability, the human population needs to create limits and begin creating regulations that will allow resources to replenish themselves at a continuous rate. One of the first steps is to begin working with developing nations so that they can begin to control their

Throughout human history, population growth is one of the most important topics brought into discussion. Globally, there are about 7.2 billion people in the world, and it will rise up to 11 billion or more by the 21st century (Brown). When we look back in the history, population growth has been so slow as to be imperceptible within a single generation, “Reaching a globally population of 1 billion in 1804 required the entire time since the humans appeared on the scene. To add the second billion, it took until 1927, just over 100 years. Thirty- three years later, in 1960, world population reached 3 billion” (Brown 15). Then the pace sped