Persuasive Essay About Overpopulation

The world population of 7.2 billion in mid-2013 is projected to increase by almost one billion people within the next twelve years. It is projected to reach 8.1 billion in 2025, and to further increase to 9.6 billion in 2050 and 10.9 billion by 2100. This assumes a decline of fertility for countries where large families are still prevalent as well as a slight increase of fertility in several countries with fewer than two children per woman on average.

As the human race continues to grow older the population starts to grow. Population growth is a change in the size of a population over time, depending on the balance of births and deaths over a period of time. For the world, population grows when the amount of births exceeds the amount of deaths. As shown in figure 1, the world’s population grew very slowly until about 1750 that is when the population growth started to increase rapidly. Figure 2 shows the growth of the global population from 1950 onwards, it also shows the projected population growth up to 2050. The global population is estimated to rise to approximately 9 billion people by 2050.

The 1800’s was the first time the population reached 1 billion. Today the Earth is at a grand population of 7.125 billion according to World Bank. Although, it wasn't always that way. There was two revolutions that changed the world's population forever.

There’s more than 7 billion people in the world and it continues to grow everyday.

Our world’s population reached the seven billion people mark in at the end of 2011. We experienced an increase by over 100% since 1968, a timeframe of just 43 years and it is expected to keep growing [1].

Since our origin, worldwide human population has steadily been on the rise. We humans emerged as a species about 200,000 years ago. In geological time, that is really incredibly recent. Just 10,000 years ago, there were one million of us. By 1800, just over 200 years ago, there were 1 billion of us. By 1960, 50 years ago, there were 3 billion of us. There are now over 7 billion of us. By 2050, your children, or your children 's children, will be living on a planet with at least 9 billion other people. During some time towards the end of this century, there will be at least 10 billion of us.

According to Meder & Windelspecht (2014) the human population was approximately five billion people in the 1650’s, and by the 1850’s is doubled again. Now today we are estimated to have approximately seven billion people

Since 1914, global population has increased dramatically. Before 1914, there had been about 90 billion people ever born. Since then, the approximate number of people ever born has increased to 100 billion. Life was very short for the first 90 billion people and until World War I, the death rates and birth rates were neck to neck. Eberstadt (2014) believes that the number of humans born over the course of 50,000 years before the 1900’s could not have possibly grown by more than three one hundredths of one percent on average per century. The recurrent disappearance of nations and sometimes even entire civilizations enforced “population balance” for most of history. Around 1900, the human population was at around 1.5 billion and over the course

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

It took many thousands of years for the world to reach 1 billion people but in the last 200 years that number has become 7 times bigger and continues to increase. The population growth has slow down lately but not the concern about over population which sounds kind of a contradiction but the reality is that development countries have help in the transition to improve life and offset human mortality. As a result we are going to mention some of the most important changes of those improvements.

Throughout the globe, we are experiencing the greatest demographic transition of all time. According to the UN DESA report, our world population is projected to grow at approximately 9.7 billion by 2050. This immense growth will predominantly occur in underdeveloped regions and developed countries, such as Africa and the U.S. Parts of the globe has an increasing ageing population, while others are having a huge influx of new youth. Mainly Europe and South America will contain ageing growths, whereas Africa and Asia will have larger proportions of youth ages. This particular dynamic is going to have desiccating affects towards our interconnected global society, if stable governments and its citizens do not come up with viable solutions. My main

There are more than seven billion people on Earth now, and about one in eight of us don’t have enough food to eat. So, with a projected nine billion people by the year 2050, how many people can the Earth support while maintaining a healthy population? Population changes are due to the relationship between births and deaths. If the number of births equals the number of deaths then the world’s population will remain the same, but if births exceed deaths, population growth will occur. Early in history, population was slowly growing because of high death rates related to wars, famines, and poor medical services. With advances in

Have you ever heard the metaphor “packed in like sardines”? You could only imagine how uncomfortable it would be. Picture a couple. This couple has three children, and these three children each have a spouse and three children of their own. Now picture these seventeen people all living in one room. Would you feel a little crowded, maybe claustrophobic? How soon before panic would set in, and you find yourself needing space? Now imagine that even if you could leave this room, the situation outside is no better. Did you know there is a world population clock on the United States Census Bureau website that increases by one number in less than one second? 7,421,546,950 was the latest number as of 7:36 p.m., 16 September 2017. It is not hard to imagine with this growth that soon the world will run out of room for all of these people, not to mention the ability to feed them. The world already has over a billion people with no access to food, clean water, or sanitation (Kuo, 2012). Now put yourself in this room, close quarters and hungry. You see a rat over in the corner. Would you fight for it? You probably said no, but that is because you are not starving, and no one is inside of your personal space for now. The world’s overpopulation crisis will lead to an apocalyptic end with conflict over land and food.

I don’t believe people are the sole cause, but we are tremendously involved in creating the cause. And really, it’s not so much humans as it is the dramatic increase in population since 1950. In 1950, the population was about 2.5 billion people on this great earth. In 2009—just 59 years later, there are almost 6.8 billion people roaming this globe. And that number continues to grow. By 2050, an estimated 9.3 billion people will call our planet home.

Figuring out a population control policy for the United States is a very difficult task. If I were a part of the U.S. Government, I would have a hard time deciding what is morally right to implement as a population control policy. However, if I was creating a law to help control U.S. population, my ideal policy would include incentives from the government to wait to have children and intense family-planning education programs starting as early as in elementary school.