Overpopulation Notes
Obyed Azamey
Pages 139-200
- According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 1960 it was recorded that 3,038,930,391 humans on Earth.
- That same year we saw the addition of 40,622,370 more humans.
- in 1961, 56,007,855 more people were born than dead.
- In 1963, survival of the fittest came into play, stating that the strongest can survive and weak would suffer and then later die.
- As the human population expands: violence, desperateness, and deadly forces will be used to kill those who are the strongest for their viable resources.
- It is our destiny to subdue and rule the rest of the creation.
- Younger Cultures (Us) see themselves as dominators and conquerors.
- We seek out opponents (animal or human) and capture, enslave, or eradicate them..
- As our population continues to grow we start to destroy forests and build houses on them and the rest of our ecosystem becomes affected by it and leads to animals going into extinction.
- The truth behind war happened because our population was overpopulated and we needed to wipe out some of the population.
- Wetiko: gaining by consuming others’ lives.
- Congress decided that we were destined by God to go out and take the lives’ of others who got in our way including the lives’ of tens and millions of Native Americans.
- They thought of this as a natural law.
Daija Jennings
Pages 108-9
- The decline of their civilization is linked in the historical record to their population outstripping their available fuel: wood.
- Rome had its own needs for wood: by 200 B.C. the forests of what we now call Italy were all wiped out to meet the Roman needs for fuel and shelter to warm the public baths and to melt metals.
- By the 13th Century B.C. this increased food supply caused the Greeks to begin clearing huge tracts of their forest to provide living space, fuel, and cropland for their ever-growing population.
- The food shortages threatened the stability of the Roman Empire.
- Rome’s watershed destruction, deforestation, depleted soil, and booming population led to widespread famines, resulting in the collapse of the Roman Empire’
- The discovery of oil in Pennsylvania just after the Civil War dramatically increased the human races ability to grow and feed the global population.
- Now that we have all these people dependent on a particular fuel, what happens when it runs out.?
Pages 114
- Even a small dislocation in the availability of a primary fuel source can throw an entire nation into disarray.
- Cost of fuel source skyrocketed the small percentage of the population that controls the wealth and the armies of the world maybe able to circle the wagons and protect their own interests, but the population at large will be in serious trouble.
- Places like Haiti, where exploding populations have collided with limited fuel supplies and led to underspread poverty and hunger.
Page 272
- Male domination = population explosion.
- Relative Mate-female equality = sustainable population.
(Chlyde’s work)
Debate: Yay or Nay for Overpopulation Crisis?
Yay:
- Responsibility of handling the children of the future is a problem.
- There will be a struggle to feed everyone in the world. We’re still struggling right now.
- There are too many people working in the world, which spreads money too thin.
- Peace is unattainable with too many people and their opinions.
- There is not enough of everything to cover all the people in the world.
Nay:
- There is a lot of land available in the world, no one’s using it.
- We still have a lot of resources that we have not used yet.
- “the Earth can handle having a lot more people on its surface”
- Overpopulation cannot occur. People die.
- We just need to adjust our distribution methods so everyone has something.
Summary for Yay: While there seems to be a lot of assets for everyone to have some, the current amount of stuff we have might not be enough to cover gigantic and growing population.
Summary for Nay: We have a lot left on the planet, it’s just that not everyone is efficiently maximizing what resources are still available. There is still a lot of land unused in the United States, for example, but everyone wants to live in a certain area.
Bibliography: "Is Overpopulation a Global Crisis?" The Premier Online Debate Website. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Sept. 2014.
Darlene’s Work
Root cause of many environmental and social problem:
-1 billion do not have food and safe drinking water
-Global Warning; destroying ecosystems leaving people with health problems
-Energy Sources; coal, wood, and oil are becoming harder to get
-Plenty of people now live areas that are unsafe, due to population pressures
-The population is divided between the wealthy and the poor
-In our country (U.S) 2.2 million farmlands forest and ranchland are being destroyed every year!
5 things that can reverse growth population NATIOANLLY and WORLDWIDE:
1. Allow Women and Families to plan how many children they want
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2. Education and job opportunities
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4. Awareness of environmental and social cost of overpopulation
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6. Social Norm
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8. Economic Forces
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Richard’s Work: Future Effects of Being Overpopulated
- World’s fresh water supply is constantly decreasing(will run out soon for regions like India b/c of the lack of reliable electricity)
- Decrease in forests due to the need of more room for people
- Battle between nations for resources
- Oil is rapidly decreasing as were becoming more advanced
- We’re polluting too much that global warming is becoming a huge threat to our existence. Deforestation-----> Increase of CO2(greenhouse gas) ----->Global Warming ----> Loss of Life
- Earth’s capacity is 2-3 Billion. We’re stealing resources from future descendants aka future descendants will not have much left for them.
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