The Human Population Growth

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Today the world’s population is 7.3 billion people and it keeps growing according to the U.S Census. Population growth has been rapidly increasing and it has become one of the biggest issues we have today. Throughout time population growth has increased slowly due to diseases, climate disasters, and other similar things. However, recently the human population growth has been increasing rapidly. This has become an issue because it has affected our economic, environmental, and social aspects of the world. This has also caused school, towns and streets to be overcrowded. Population growth has reached extraordinary numbers and it keeps increasing every single second that goes by. For others population growth is not an issue, “Rules, laws, and …show more content…

He also explained how population growth encourages the developing of alternatives for those resources that are becoming scarce (Jiang). It is true that whenever something is about to become scare humans come up with innovated ways to prevent that or even come up with something new. Humans are always capable of changing and also adapting. Those alternatives for the resources that are becoming scarce have in some way affected the …show more content…

He predicted that a mass famine would occur sometime during the 1970’s and 80’s. Something that happened helped prevent his prediction was the major advances in farming techniques. This was known as the Green Revolution and it helped places like China and India feed their populations (Population Growth). But why is there still thousands of people still going through hunger? I believe it’s because of the growing population, it keeps increasing rapidly that there’s not enough resources available for these poor

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