Around the globe, overpopulation is barely mentioned when compared to other large scale social issues such as food deprivation and bullying. Globally, the most noticeable problem with overpopulation is overcrowding. Other well known issues related to overpopulation include food/water shortage, wars, and land disputes. Problems are becoming larger as the global population increases. The most prominent issues arising from overpopulation are occurring in the most populated countries such as India and China. Overpopulation affects the global and local economies. Economically, developing countries have more people in poverty such as India’s approximate 29.5% poverty rate compared to the United States poverty rate of approximately 14.5% showing a major difference in economic distribution, according to Dario Berrebi of poverties.org.
Socially, people face overcrowding in which there are never enough homes leading to homelessness which can lead to more extreme forms of population control such as China’s 1978 one-child policy to control population in which “The result of the policy has been a general decline in China’s fertility and birth rates since 1980, with the fertility rate declining and dropping below two children per woman in the mid-1990s.” with results in a social change on an entire country.
Population control is also difficult to discuss due to the ethical/moral views on how to control population. These views may manifest into religious conflicts, social conflict in the idea to start a large family, or the moral dilemma in euthanization in population control. Overpopulation is then a difficult global issue to solve because the process to solve the population bomb would be more about ethics rather than getting actual work done.
Socially, people face overcrowding in which there are never enough homes leading to homelessness which can lead to more extreme forms of population control such as China’s 1978 one-child policy to control population in which “The result of the policy has been a general decline in China’s fertility and birth rates since 1980, with the fertility rate declining and dropping below two children per woman in the mid-1990s.” with results in a social change on an entire country.
Population control is also difficult to discuss due to the ethical/moral views on how to control population. These views may manifest into religious conflicts, social conflict in the idea to start a large family, or the moral dilemma in euthanization in population control. Overpopulation is then a difficult global issue to solve because the process to solve the population bomb would be more about ethics rather than getting actual work done.
Poverty in India: Causes, Effects, Injustice & Exclusion. (n.d.). Retrieved March 27, 2015, from http://www.poverties.org/poverty-in-india.html
Pletcher, K. (n.d.). One-child policy | Chinese government program. Retrieved April 28, 2015, from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1710568/one-child-policy
Pletcher, K. (n.d.). One-child policy | Chinese government program. Retrieved April 28, 2015, from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1710568/one-child-policy
Population density (people per km2) by country, 2012.
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