The single greatest threat to the future of our planet, to the environment and to our resources, may be too many people. Overpopulation is a global problem with environmental, social, and economic issues. It is likely that by the year 2050, the world's population will double. The problem ...

The human population of Earth reached 1 billion in 1804, 2 billion in 1927, 3 billion in 1959, 4 billion in 1974 and 5 billion in late 1986. Last year on October 12th 1999, the human population of Earth reached 6 billion. In my lifetime the population has doubled from 3 billion in 1959 to the 6,034,...

Overpopulation The twentieth century has drawn to a close and humanity faces the problem of being able to support its population without inducing catastrophic and irreversible destruction on Earth's life-support systems. Throughout time, humankind has been living as though there are n...

The population of our planet will quickly reach a point where there will not be adequate amount of resources to support life on Earth. Population control must be enforced to avoid such a catastrophic occurrence. Many economic, social and environmental problems are either affiliated with or are i...

The population of our planet will quickly reach a point, where there will not be an adequate amount of resources to support life on Earth. Population control must be enforced to avoid such a catastrophic occurrence. Many, economic, social and environmental problems are either affiliated with or are ...

Although Garrett Hardin's essay entitled "The Tragedy of the Commons" was written nearly 40 years ago, it has even more impact today than when it was written as we watch the population of the world continue to climb exponentially. His concern with overpopulation caused by, as he ter...

POPULATION EXPLOSION There are now 5.8 billion human beings on the planet, and according to the U.N., the population of earth is expected to grow to around 8.5 billion by 2050. In a world that currently wrestles with such serious problems as global warming, the thinning of the ozone layer,...

The realization of the world's population crisis is creating new and disturbing ideas for many people to solve our overpopulation problem. Many ideas are being condoned as well as being criticized. Examples set by other countries such as China and India should help the United States establish a pol...

Ever since man came bustling out of the last Ice Age, 11 thousand years ago, armed with sharpened sticks, he has had a nasty habit of destroying the nature, without mentioning the fact of its population growth at non-sustainable rates. The world we know today will perhaps not support life if humans ...

Population among the United States and those of the village of Laviano, Italy are very different. Currently as of May 9, 2004, the estimate population of the U.S. is 293,208,368 (www.overpopulation.org, 2004) while, the village of Laviano in 2002 only saw four births (The Sunday Telegraph). In...

The Environmental Crisis is it real? IN the section " The Environmental Crisis is it real?" the author Barbara Ruben tries to explain why media coverage of the environmental situation has been skewed. In the early 90's there was an "environmental backlash" in the medi...

Urbanization as a Social Problem How is urbanization negatively effecting our society? The answer to this question is not a simple one. This essay will not only break down the problems of urbanization in the United States, but it will also tell you some of the attempts made to fix the probl...

The industrialization and technology of the world's higher income nations has a negative effect on the plight of the world's poorer nations. The high-income nations' industrialization encourages child labor, poor living conditions in exchange for material things, and higher world p...

The Republic of Chile has a population of over 15,800,00 (July 2004 EST.). The majority of Chile's inhabitants are in their middle ages considering that the age of 66% percent of its population ranges from 15 to 64 years, with a median age of 28.8. The dominant ethnic group of the Chilean populatio...