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Overpopulation In The United States

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The problem that we are having here is rapid human population growth and without a doubt there is a problem with this in today’s society. This type of problem is a very complex issue. You see a lot of rapid population growth more so, in other countries and your are seeing it more and more in the U.S. it is linked to many problems, including poverty, hunger, high infant mortality, and inadequacies in social services, health services, and infrastructure. It would be a gross oversimplification to say that population growth causes these problems. Population growth could just as easily have been the effect of economic insecurity and poor health care. However, rapid population growth may defeat efforts to combat poverty and hunger and to improve …show more content…

In areas where power and wealth are concentrated in the hands of a few, it is difficult for the poor to break out of the cycle of poverty that is often passed from generation to generation. Rapid population growth makes this effort even more difficult. Hunger has always been a companion to poverty. Most experts agree that the world could feed today's population, and a considerably larger number, if income were redistributed, if modern farming methods were used everywhere, if land reform policies were put into effect, if meat consumption were reduced, if non-nutritious crops were replaced by nutritious crops, and if waste and corruption were controlled. However, rapid population growth may intensify the hunger problem; in the most rapidly growing countries, population growth can reduce or eliminate food production gains resulting from modernization of farming. Population pressures may also encourage practices such as over irrigation and overuse of croplands, which undermine the capacity to feed larger numbers. In some cases, population growth is quite directly related to a social problem because it increases the absolute numbers whose needs must be

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