Overpopulation

What is it?

What are it causes and effects? How is this changing our world?

How can we stop this?

What are the solutions?

Interesting Facts about overpoulation 1

Table of Contents Definition of overpopulation……………………………………………………………………pg3 Causes and Effects-How did it start...................................................................................pg4 What are the solutions to this issue?................................................................................ ...pg5 Interesting Facts……………………………………………………………………………………….pg6 Proposal……………………………………………………………………………………………………pg 7 Credits……………………………………………………………………………………………………….pg8

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What is overpopulation?

people of there have exhausted the natural resources like water.

Dubai has a very serious problem of overpopulation that these country have started to make the process of desalination of water, so people can have water. They have no more trees because they had to deforestate all those lands to build houses and buildings for the people that don´t have a house. They have also started to build artificial islands, and this is very serious because this is only the begging of something very bad. If the country´s continue with the overpopulation each country of the world is going to consume all the natural resources like, water, food, mines, oil, etc. When the world reaches this it would face a very bad time period.

Over population is when a mass of land has no more space to contain more human beings. When this issue happens in a country the people are forced to create artificial islands or even make deforestation, to make houses for the people that they don´t fit in the country. In Japan they are forced to create rules of how many children each people could have. For example in Japan you can only have one child, this is a law that the Japanese government had to install due to the overpopulation of this country. If they choose to have another child the Japanese would have to pay a tax to have it. Another case would be the issue in Dubai. In Dubai they have so many habitants that

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Causes and Effects of Overpopulation

Overpopulation is a really big global issue that it’s affecting our world today, and this happens or starts for many different reasons. One of them is there is no birth control, so people reproduce more quickly. Statistics tell that each week, a million and a half people come to our world.

Even though this is good, less people have died so it means that the world’s population is advancing more and more. Another important factor to consider is that scientists have created ways to create new life, also known as infant immortality. Population in most of the world is increasing in the smallest places. Also, there’s a lot of poverty now in the world which means that more kids don’t have education so they don’t know the importance of why overpopulation is such a big issue.

Overpopulation is leading to the world to be limited of all type of resources. More people growing in each country means feeding more people and increasing food production. As well, more people mean more health, water and medicinal technology. Because of so many people in the world today, people wealth is more vulnerable and likely to get sick. Also, by overpopulation people are in need to gain money but because there aren’t sufficient jobs, as a result appear more poverty.

Overpopulation could also mean more working hands, more need for water, paper, killing animals, getting petroleum and other terrible stuff that could lead to a bad end of our world.

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Overpopulation solutions

to have more than one or two kids.

The solution in the pill is going to be used after the first or second time the woman has a son, this pill is going to be used optionally, but governments want to use it as a mandatory law. They want to use this pill in states like in South Africa because of their poor economic situation and because their overpopulation is really big. The only problem in this solution is that the solution in the pill is still in progress.

Overpopulation is a serious problem that is occurring around the world. Soon humans or other species will be around the world and will not have enough space to live in. This is why we need to solve this global issue for good. Fortunately, states in the world have already thought that this serious problem will affect us soon, so they finally started creating possible solutions to Overpopulation. They have make tons of them but the world in common has chosen a top 3 of this possible solutions.

The other and 3 solution is an idea made by a government. The idea is that many governments will take a group of man separated from women for one month. This group of people will go to a island and they will be in service by at least one month.. Putting this solution in practice it will make women have fewer kids because of less man. This idea is still going to be considered.

These are some of the million of solutions that we can make up to save our planet. Why don’t you try to do some too!

The first idea of to solve Overpopulation is one make from the Indian government seems they have a lot of problems with Overpopulation. They came up with the idea about all governments will make people can only have one kid per family, if they have more than one, they will need to pay a fine and they will not get the benefits that they have with one kid. This is a very good idea that is already been used in India but India´s government think that this solution will start making effect in at least 2 years.

Another solution that this time scientists have made is that they want to make a solution in a pill that makes women not allowed

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Interesting Facts ·

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of the population growth in the world is the result of incidental or unwanted pregnancies” · “If fertility remained at current levels, the population would reach the absurd figure of 296 billion in just 150 years. Even if it dropped to 2.5 children per woman and then stopped falling, the population would still reach 28 billion” .May 1998 Bill McKibben - Atlantic Monthly · “By 2030, the world's urban population is expected to reach 4.9 billion, while the rural population is expected to decrease by 28 million.” · “The average life expectancy is 61, up from 40 in just 50 years. The numbers of people 65 and older make up 10-15% of the world population today and is expected to increase to 20-30% by 2050.”

Interesting facts taken from: "World Population Awareness." WOA!!

World Ovepopulation Awareness. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Oct. 2012. <http://www.overpopulation.org/faq.html>.

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Proposal · Objective of the proposal: the objective of our proposal is to show people why overpopulation is such a big global issue and also we are going to raise awareness in people by showing them who life will be is there’s more people in each community · Description of action or plan: our plan is to make a campaign in which we will show what is the definition of the problem, why it so important, and tell people how we can prevent this · This should be applied in our school because this way people know what a better environment would be if there’s less people and no overpopulation. We will also show why it’s so important to take care of our world. · The time that we will take to do our proposal is 2 months so we can prepare it on a good way and we will show a detailed and good work that is better to understand and apply on our daily life. · The materials that we will use are: o Ourselves in order to create the campaign o The computer to look for facts and make PowerPoint’s and brochures o Internet to look for interesting facts

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Credits: Alegria Bermeo Renato Lopez Emilio Reyes

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