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Overpopulation

After doing our GIS assignment I thought it would be interesting to explore country and city populations more in-depth. Did you know that the United States is ranked third in country population and that New York is the thirteenth most populous city?
There appears to be some serious overpopulation issues in southern Asia, particularly in China and India. The two most populous cities have almost a combined total of 23 million people.
The impression that the human populations have in the natural environment can be extreme in some cases. Many animal and plant species have become extinct due to the progression of urban developments; the pollution is a issue that continues to grow each and every day with the constant use of more cars and the industrialization from arising countries.
Each year, more than 81 million people add to the world-wide population. Every 10 years nearly one billion people are added to the world’s population. By 2050, India will replace China for first place in growth rate, with an increase of 550 million extra people to its existing population of one billion. Pakistan will almost triple its population by 2050, from 142 to 350 million.
This is really crazy that these countries are growing and populating so rapidly. In the article it states "If the world population stays on growing at an average of three children by couple, the global population for 2050 will be of 10.5 billion inhabitants, from whom 7.7 billion will suffer for extreme poverty, lack of fresh water, hunger, illnesses, etc." What will the world become? 7.7 billion people will endure extreme poverty!! That statistic is outrageous, but most likely to be accurate. This issue needs to be addressed in a huge way, to prevent such disastrous futures for upcoming generations.
Overpopulation

posted by Anonymous @ 2/15/2006 04:16:00 PM