There are simply too many people on our planet, and the population is not showing any signs of

slowing down(see Figure 1). It is having disastrous effects on our environment. There are too many

implications and interrelationships to discuss in this paper, but 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

overfished. 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

In 1994, the world population was 5 602 800 000. This population had a doubling time of only

forty-one years (De Blij and Muller, 1994, p.527). The massive amount of people has had highly

destructive impacts on the earth’s environment. These impacts occur on two levels: global and local. On

the global level, there is the accumulation of green house gases that deplete the ozone layer, the

In developing countries, much deforestation is for both local purposes and for export. The UNFPA

recent signs of recuperation, and it is absolutely necessary.

CFC’s already spurred by the alarm over depletion of the ozone layer, it is

These steps against vast ocean harvesting are reversing the trend of recent decades. A global

areas with traditionally high fertility rates will have a very young structure age. Thus, a decrease in

population-enduced degrading environment. The impact we make on the biosphere is sometimes expressed

In the early 1990’s, the state of the world’s fisheries made headlines. Many coastal areas of

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