Our World Today

As I was reading through the article called “7 billion” that my history teacher gave me, I came up with 10 most important facts/points about the article. Reading the article was rather integrating as most of the story focused on the population and natural resources in our daily lives. It made me think about the impacts that I leave behind everyday. As overpopulation is a rather global issue, I think we all should take part and do every little thing we can. Here is a summary of the top 10 most interesting things I found in the article:

10. Natural resources- as more and more natural resources are used to support our enormous population the world itself is struggling with natural disasters. The growing population needs a huge amount of natural resources to produce enough food/goods for the world.

9. Third world countries- have the highest birth rates. This is because of the lack of education, recourses, and medicine. The increase of birth rates in slums and not fully developed countries is a huge issue to tackle.

8. One child policy- in China has a huge impact on the overall world population today. As china is one of the major populated countries in the world the one child policy has lessened the birth rate by a huge amount. Not only are the numbers now lessened by almost half but also the people are using fewer resources, leaving them for the next generations.

7. Medicine- this is a huge affect of why the population is growing today. With medicine people are allowed to live longer. This causes an increase in population. People are now living longer and relied on medicine. This is a huge issue and answer to why today’s growth in population is increasing by the second.

6. The middle class- will increase in population. The cause of this is because nowadays people have a bigger chance to work themselves into the middle class. With this opportunity the people are allowed to have more kids as they have enough money to support them. By this we will gain a huge number in population. 

5. Decreasing natural recourses- as population grows natural resources are decreasing. This means goods and needs such as food and water will be lacking. This is a major concern to people, as our daily needs for survival will be lacking and people will be starving even more. This is a huge issue. In order to control our natural resources people will need to tackle the issue about overpopulation.

4. Science- is one of the major causes for over population. As people rely more on technology there is a huge cause for more people. Now that we can find an answer to everything using technology people are allowed to have more kids and live longer. When families live longer the population grows and people are allowed to make more kids

3. Immigrants move cities- this causes people to not be able to have enough resources in one area. As people move and immigrant’s travel, they usually travel in a huge train/bus/boat/etc this gives people a bigger chance to move to another place together and using more resources in that area. This causes the area to get limited amounts of goods as the area was once only for 100,000 people, now it has to take care of 200,000 people. This changes the role of everything in that part/area.

2. Education for women- would give them the opportunity to get educated and learn to establish their own lifestyles. With this opportunity women will be able to build their own family. The cause of overpopulation in many areas are factors of uneducated women. Women should be educated and taught about the importance of building and deciding on a family.  

1. The increase of population- will endanger us all. The issue cannot be changed immediately but can be taken into consideration. Changing today will affect the future generations and build a better world. But if we do not take action and teach this generation about the issue at hand, further generations might ignore all these problems and end up even more endangered than before.