You have just gotten married to the man of your dreams. The both of you are making a good salary and you have just moved into a new house. The house has plenty of space and resources. Soon the two of you decide that you want to have a family. Now all of the space, food and resources must now be divided amongst the three of you. Some time passes and you decide to have another child, then another, then another. You slowly watch the space in your house become smaller and smaller with the additions that are added to the family. Soon the bills become a problem and everyone begins to feel cramped. This type of scenario is happening to our global home. Everyday, 240,000 babies are born around the world, according to United Nations' Population Fund (UNFPA). This figure works out to be about 12,000,000 people over the next 50 years, if the growth stays, steady. However, as stated by World Population Profile: 1998, the population of our plant will reach 9.6 billion people by 2050!
             This fact should frighten the people of the world because growing population will affects everyone. Here are a few examples of issues that will affect the human race.
             · Worsening water scarcity in large part from increases in human demand. Water tables are dropping worldwide.
             · Pollution in cities is the number one killer of young children because of respiratory diseases. Cities are growing at an alarming rate.
             · Worldwide 800 million people are malnourished, and the number could grow significantly. Farming lands are suffering from soil erosion and desertification.
             The only way that we can help ourselves as well as the earth is if we educate ourselves about the situation. Experts list the various reasons the population has boomed. One reason is population momentum, which can be defined as, the tendency for population growth to continue beyond the time that replacement-level fertility has been achieved because of ...