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Overpopulation Satire

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Walking through the train station seemed more difficult than wading through tar. You couldn't get anywhere due to the sheer volume of people in your way. The sun’s intense heat was punishing the earth’s unshielded surface and was boiling the station’s inhabitants from the inside. A hot, sticky, overcrowded mess. Suddenly, everyone erupted into a full sprint; the train was leaving. Thousands of people formed a Tsunami behind me, tearing down anything that stood in their way. The stampede vibrated between my ears, rattling my eardrums like a baby’s toy. It was a scramble to get on. The crowd forced me forwards with the power of a million bulls. I could barely keep myself upright. Sandwiched between thousands of others, I had extreme doubt I would …show more content…

Probably the world’s largest overlooked problem. You may not realise it, but the scale of this is huge! Many people seem to think it is not a big issue, “we have lots of space” they say. But it is not the space that’s the problem. Overpopulation is the direct cause of poverty, global warming, animal extinction, air and water pollution, plant and animal habitat loss, disease outbreak, etc. and the list goes on. If we do not start making an effort to fix these, then our society may end up like the dystopias we see in the …show more content…

Where do we apply the force to get the wheels turning? How do we lift these ideas off the ground? One by one. Currently, organisations such as Oxfam and Unicef are making an effort to fix all the issues in one foul swoop: lack of education, pollution, birth control availability, spreading of disease and more. Recently Oxfam and Unicef have focused their energies on alleviating diseases such as the Zika virus and Malaria in developing countries and at the same time trying to provide adequate shelter and warmth for these same places. This is impossible to do. We need to focus on one issue at a time, solve that, then move on. Otherwise, we will get nowhere, just as we are doing now. Not enough funding, resources and time are available to fix everything at once. By focusing all our energy on one solution, we allow ourselves to move quicker and more efficiently. Just as the WHO is doing, providing birth control for those countries in need and UNESCO is doing, providing education to the developing world. Globally increasing numbers in lower secondary education by 27% and more than doubling numbers in sub-Saharan Africa. Without this shift in mindset, these issues will surely get out of hand very quickly. Eventually leading us to abandon our old ways of living for a new and better way or, to our inevitable

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