Modest Proposal Rhetorical Analysis

Modern

Jonathon Swift “Modest Proposal” is shocking satire that is supposed to bring to light the ill state of the Irish nation during the time period.

The essay begins as a Proposal for a solution for the extreme poverty and over population of Ireland during the time period. But with subtle but quick shift in tone, the essay turns grim. Swift proposes that the children of the poor should be fatten up and sold as food to Ireland's rich landowners. He suggested that the children of Ireland would be considered as “delicacies” for the wealthy. In the piece, Swift uses math to try and make his argument more reasonable. He also gave recipes on ways to cook the children and at what age they should be sold at.

As new technology and advancements

in medical science are developed, the average lifespan of a human grows longer and longer. This is a great but tragic turn of events. Since humans live longer, the world's population is rapidly increasing. The world’s population is reaching a dangerous level, and if it continues to grow in this rapid pace there will be a shortage of resources to sustain life. I have thought long and hard on how to prevent the serious problems created by overpopulation.
Some of the problem that occurs due to overpopulation are: food/water shortages, climate changes, new diseases, economic and social collapses.

A perfect example of these problems occurring due to overpopulation is China and India. According to the U.S Census Bureau the population of China and India is estimated at 2.5 billion people. That's about 36 percent of the world’s population in two countries. In China alone, over 40,000 children die each day from malnutrition and its related diseases. Diseases spread rapidly due to the tight spaces and unsanitary living conditions caused by overpopulation. According to CNN, there where huge cholera outbreaks, which killed thousands of people in India because its infrastructure was not prepared for the excess waste due to its growing population. In a study done on human rights by the United Nations, there were an about 78 million homeless people in India and 6.8 million homeless people in China in 2005. With these people receiving little to no education, their only mean of an income is through crime or

begging.
With all that being said, we must stop this rapid population growth before it’s to late.

There are many solutions to solve this problem. For example we could adopt a worldwide "one child" policy. This is a solution that China's government has instituted to control the population in there country. In this policy a couple is only allowed to have one child. If the couple has more than one child, they are faced with a stiff fine, which most can't afford, and if they can't afford it the baby is forcibly aborted. This can be taken a step further by only allowing couples who met a certain criteria such as: an above average combined IQ, good genes, or a substantial amount of wealth to produce offspring. This would not only benefit the prevention of overpopulation but also improve the human race as a whole. According to world-renowned scientist Charles Darwin when only the fittest and best examples from a population are allowed to breed, the species will rapidly evolve to become greater than it ever

was.
Another method in stopping the world from becoming over populated is to do what Jonathon Swift suggested in his "Modest Proposal" but on a global scale. His proposal is to fatten up these undernourished children and feed them to Ireland's rich landowners. Children of the poor could be sold into a meat market at the age of one, thus stopping overpopulation and unemployment, sparing families the expense of child rearing while providing them with a little extra income, improving the culinary experience of the wealthy, and contributing to the overall economic well-being of the nation. But why stop at just children; nations could set up war games using the homeless population as soldiers. This will decrease the population of the world and deal with the homeless problem faced by many nations. This idea will bring entertainment to the world's people; it will also boost the economy of the nations involved due to the increase in jobs from weapons production. This will also give the homeless people something to do instead of committing crime and bothering the tax paying citizens. The homeless will gain a sense of pride because they would be fighting for their nation.
Those are my ideas on how to how to prevent overpopulation and the serious problems created by it. What is the point in having the world suffer when there are these simple steps to guide us into a better and more pleasurable society?