Overpopulation

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Population is becoming a big deal on the earth’s surface. More than 300,000 people have been born since 1999. Therefore, people are losing their homes and jobs due to the population growth. Water and food resources are being overused and there aren’t much left. If this continues the world can possibly come to an end. Earths huge population growth also effects the climate change. Each person in the world exhales about 4 million gig'a'tons of carbon dioxide each year. There are also approximately 10,000 babies being born each day, and that means that there are more cars that are going to be used. Cars also put out lots of carbon dioxide. Between the years 1950-2000, the United States was responsible for 212 billion gig’a’tons of carbon dioxide.

Animal population is becoming a problem. At the beginning of the century there was estimated to be 100,000 tigers throughout Asia, as of today 93% of that is extinct. In the late 60’s there were 70,000 black rhinos in Africa, now there are only 2,500.Today there are about 8.7 billion species of animals in the world but that has fallen 2 million since 2000. Every day farmers are planting increasingly crops on animals habitats. This is resulting to many animals becoming extinct.

Overpopulation will affect the farming industry. Each day there are at least 3000 acres that are being built into cities. People are also developing countries to rely on farming for their food and have no other income or jobs. While the government is building over those acres there will be less farming land so that means that the prices for crops will increase and people will go hungry.

Scientists believe that that the technology will update and will figure out the problems with overpopulation. They also say that most of the water sources are being dried up because of the pollution due to the facilities near by. That is being turned in to construction property too.

Population has a big affect the earths surface. Overpopulation leads to climate change, animal overpopulation, and the farming industry. People can help lower the rate of overpopulation by using birth control and having safe sex. The government can also limit the amount children people have at there homes. If population keeps increasing the world has a huge chance of ending. Throughout the world today there are millions of people that are littering, to keep life on the planet we must stop that.