Rapid Population Growth

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Retrenchment as A Result of Rapid Population Growth

The size of population tends to exceed the environmental resources an area can sustain because of increased birth rate, lowered death rates and increased migrations. Consequently, the over populated world encounters global crisis such as global warming, depletion of natural resources, unemployment and slower economic development. A report from The Nation, talks of overpopulation in the world in the following manner.

“The earth circumference is approximately 24,900 miles, which caters now to nearly seven billion people. One and a half million are added every week.” (Shah, 2012)

Population, as aforementioned is altered by increased reproduction rate, which is due to early marriages and lack of knowledge regarding family planning and contraceptives. Moreover, with increased innovation and medical advancements death rates have fallen, resulting in higher life expectancy.

A new study that now appears in the Annals of Internal Medicine says in the first four years after Massachusetts instituted health care reform in 2006, the mortality rate decreased by 2.9-percent. That percentage is compared to similar populations in states that didn’t expand health coverage. (Stern, 2014)

However, this is only applicable to a limited extent, since underdeveloped and developing countries cannot provide sufficient, let alone substantial health care facilities to their inhabitants. Even in developed countries, health insurance laws vary and so does the priority given to health care, which act as a limiting factor in decreasing death rates. The same restrictions are applicable for early marriages; although a notable number of countries provoke their youth, especially women to embrace the concep...

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... the very issue of providing food. Since preventing overpopulation seems improbable for these methods seem ineffective, henceforth at least the problem of unemployment should be dealt with. More job opportunities should be given and ways of increasing job satisfaction should be implemented on so that people, too are motivated and encouraged to participate.

Work Cited

Effects of overpopulation. ‘StudyMode.com’. April, 2014. Web. 22nd June, 2014.

Ginsburg, Helen. Unemployment Means Lost Output and Human Deficits. ‘National Jobs for All

Coalition’. August, 1995. Web. 22nd June, 2014.

Harvard Study: Mass. Health Reform Law Lowered Death Rates. CBC Bostan, 6th May, 2014.

Web. 22nd June, 2014.

Malik, Kamran. Understanding Economics: Lahore, 2012. Print.

Shah, Mowahid Hussain. Unemployment and Overpopulation. The Nation, 15th March, 2012.

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