Population, the total number of inhabitants constituting a particular race, class, or group in a specified area.
             All of our lives we have heard many things involving population, such as baby booms, mini booms, death decreases, and they used to mean good things, but today they are placing our world in peril. To many trees are getting cut down, people are starving, people are running out of places to live, and worse our supply of natural resources are slowing depleting. Sadly, most people do not know how big of a problem this is, but what are human beings supposed to do? Are we to cut health care since so many people, who years ago would have died, are living, co should we put a halt on the rate that people are having children? We must come up with a plan that everyone can follow, and if we unite as a people we can solve this problem before its too late.
             When people think of crowded countries, they usually contemplate places like the Netherlands (1,031 per square mile), Taiwan (1,604), or Hong Kong (14,218). "Even those don't necessarily signal overpopulation, the Dutch seem to be thriving, and doesn't Hong Kong have a booming economy and fancy hotels?" (Kerry Smith, ed., Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered )Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1979). In short, if density were the standard of overpopulation, few nations would be likely to be considered overpopulated in the near future. The error, we repeat, lies in trying to define overpopulation in terms of density; it has long been recognized that density means very little. (STEADY STATE ECONOMICS, Daly; Island Press, 1991.)
             On October 12, 1999, the human population of Earth reached 6 billion. The scary part about this is that it is still rapidly growing. ("Populations" by the Globe Book Company). People look at the scenario of giving a party for 15 friends as an example of how overpopulation occurs. However, each person decided to bring another person with them making a ...