Overpopulation

 A large amount of people are really worried, while only a few are not. Perhaps those people know something that we do not. Perhaps there are far worse things to be concerned about at this current point in time. Overpopulation is possibly the very last thing that some people should be thinking about. It has been said that due to an overpopulation catastrophe, we will not be able to survive on Earth for too much longer. But research has shown that it is actually possible that the people on planet Earth will die out for some reason or another other than overpopulation. People should look into overpopulation more, so that they can see that it is not as big a problem as some people go and make it out to be.

The main and most significant thing that people should look at is the actual support of the Earth. How many people would actually be too much? Through some calculations it has been demonstrated that Earth is proficient enough to maintain tens of billions of people comfortably using all of the useful technology that we have today (Overpopulation). At this current time there are only a little more than six billion inhabitants all together world wide. That number is no where close to ten billion (Hoevel). People do not appear to notice the extremely apparent characteristic; that the world is pretty much unoccupied. Human beings actually take up no more than one to three percent of the earths overall land surface. “If you allotted 1,250 square feet to each person, all the people in the world would fit into the state of Texas. The population density of this very large city would be about 21,000 which would be somewhat more than San Francisco and less than the Bronx.” (Kasun).

A less noteworthy characteristic dealing with overpopulation is the facts about all of the deaths in the world. Every single day of the week that passes by, a large number of deaths are taking place. A couple of the greatest factors of all of the deaths in this world consist of wars, violent crimes, starvation or undernourishment, and also deadly illnesses. Approximately five million inhabitants of the Earth end up dieing every single year from illnesses associated with organic wastes single-handedly (Nahle). One more thing is that “the poorest fifth of people in countries with rapid population growth have twice as many children, on average, as the wealthy people in those same countries.” It has been reported in developing countries that there have been huge outbreaks occurring during some summers where some fifty- thousand people died from diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, Cholera and many others. Close to 97 percent of the world population growth that will occur between now and 2050 will all occur in these poor developing countries, where the governments are facing severe financial and societal challenges. (Hoevel). And for that reason, in these developing countries, one in every four children unfortunately died previous to his or her fifth birthday (Verburg).