According to Zero Population Growth web site, “currently at 263 million, the U.S. population is growing by about 2.5 million people each year, making the United States one of the worlds fastest-growing industrialized nations” (ZPG, 2000).

Zero Population Growth web site believes that there are simply too many people on our planet. It is having disastrous effects on our environment. The three substances that our earth consists of: land, water, and air, are being destroyed. Our forests are being cut down at an alarming rate, bearing enormous impacts on the health of earth. Our oceans and seas are being polluted and over fished. Our atmosphere is injected with increasing amounts of carbon dioxide, which hurts the entire planet. All of these problems can be traced to our vast, rapidly expanding population, which has stressed our world far too greatly.

In 1994, the world population was 5,602,800,000. This population has grown to 6,134,767,070. That’s a gro

Most population activists are less concerned with the number of people alive than with how natural resources and human services are allocated. In recent years, population has not so much grown as it has exploded. The world’s six-billionth inhabitant came just eight years after population surpassed the five billion mark. World population has more than doubled since 1960, and 95 percent of that growth has come from developing nations that offer the least access to health care, education and nutrition needed to support such growth. The population of India alone recently surpasses one billion, straining its barely sufficient food and potable water supplies.

A world with zero population growth would not be a better place to live than a world with a growing population. A 1997 report from Goldman Sachs, for example, pointed out that low reproduction rates combined with longer life spans are undermining pension and other retirement plans around the world.

Enger, Eldon D. and Smith, Bradley F. Environmental Science: A Study of Interrelationships. 7th edition. United States: McGraw Hill, 2000. Pg. 120.

Population growth is falling for several reasons. Rising standards of living bring with them pensions and other retir

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