Most species have a sideways “S" shaped graph reflecting growth rate, meaning the amount of species will grow in total population, but will eventually start to go down again. The human population graph resembles more of a "J", starting out low and then skyrocketing exponentially upwards. At our current growth rate, it would take the world's population of 5.8 billion 45 years to double. The United States population would double in less than 100 years. Today, the birth rate is about three times the death rate world wide. The closer these two rates are, the slower population growth will be, but with the birth rate growing further away from the death rate, future efforts must be made by the government to slow down the world population growth.

Overpopulation is becoming a bigger concern as the growth rate continues to skyrocket. Overpopulation is sometimes misunders

Overpopulation does not only affect the environment, but also hurts humans. Overpopulating the world can lead to wide spread poverty and crime. The more people you have in an area, the more crime problems it will cause. The big cities always seem to have the worst crime. As more and more people are on this planet, the resources become more and more exhausted. As the human race continues to grow, other plant life and animal life begin to disappear. The fact is that we can not live without the other plant life and animal life that we are currently destroying. By keeping the population of the world at reasonable numbers, pollution levels, diseases, and resources will be able to be maintained at reasonable levels.

With the introduction of modern medicine and improved water and agriculture, the infant mortality rate and the overall death rate has fallen all over the world and will only decrease. Right now there are record numbers of women in their child bearing years which will cause areas such as India, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America to continue to grow at alarming rates. Five developing countries today are responsible for more than 50 percent of the world's increase in population: India, China, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Nigeria. China has the most with 1,270,000,000. Part of the problem in China is that according to Chinese beliefs, large families are a key part of the traditional Chinese culture. Therefore, this predicament calls for more than the government just telling the Chinese citizens to only have one child. Besides promoting public awareness and birth control, China instituted a one child policy in 1959, but has been vastly ignored, rendering it widely ineffective. They have also adopted a marriage law encouraging people to marry later in their lives so that the mothers have less child bearing years.

Most of all, the people of the world, including you, are the ones who have to sit back and think about the consequences of overpopulating our world and realize that something has to be done. If the government and the people work together at this issue, we could reach a state of equilibrium where the birth and death rate are equal. If this happens disease will be less likely and other issues like pollution will be more easily controlled. So as you finish reading this decide on what you can do to solve this problem. You could choose to do anything from limiting your family size to donating money to organizations that work to control population. The most important thing you

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