The Pros And Cons Of Overpopulation

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Overcrowding, overpopulating, limiting resources, worsening air and worsening water, dying species, paving of farmlands, deforesting our wilderness, and ultimately and eventually killing ourselves; our own people have such negative and false thoughts for this world and its’ resources. Why? Overpopulation and over consumption are only two of numerous false theories that people lead themselves to believe about our world. My conclusion: this world and we the people…are fine; things are not as bad as people exaggerate them out to be and we are neither overpopulated or over consuming. So many of the people of this world are spreading false ideas about population and consumption and their ideas could not be any less true.
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Although this world’s population is growing, it is not growing at a very fast rate. From 1950 to 2000, it was reported that the world population only grew at a rate of 1.76% (Morse, Mosher). 1.76% people. Morse and Mosher also reported in their article Debunking the Myth of Overpopulation, “Between 2000 and 2050, it is expected to grow by 0.77 percent” (More, Mosher). How can overpopulation actually be a problem when our world population is only growing by that small percentage? So, if overpopulation is not the problem then that means that over consumption is the problem, right? Not totally. Even with a growing population, which we now should not believe is a problem, food is not scarce nor will it ever be …show more content…

Think about this: if food were scarce and overconsumption was a problem, we would not have obese people and well-nourished people. Although hunger does in fact remain a problem in some parts of this world, and some people are in fact obese as well, does not mean that consumption is at all a problem. The problem is, again, the hearts of the human people. We have more than enough food, resources, and everything else that we need for all of the people of this world need to survive and live good lives. In the article by Mark Sagoff, Do We Consume Too Much?, Sagoff writes, “The world has the wealth and the resources to provide everyone the opportunity to live a decent life” (Sagoff). There are enough resources to provide for the entire population of this world and the problem is not overpopulation nor consumption; the problem is people and still then, we are not as bad off as people

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