The biggest problem in the world today is it’s massive population. This problem is also the root of many of the economic dilemmas faced by modern leaders. The fact that there are over 6.66 billion people inhabiting this world makes it exponentially harder to fix issues such as world hunger and poverty. Many countries already have implemented policies to control their populations.
One child policy
China, which has the largest population with their 1.2 billion people, has a policy called the one-child policy that allows a couple to have only one child. The population growth in China has decreased 300 million people in its first twenty years of activation.
Family planning
Over the past 30 years,many couples have gone through family planning programs, which has helped reduce fertility rates. Techniques vary from birth control pills and condoms to educational classes and sterilization procedures such as tubal ligation for women and vasectomy for men.
Euthanasia
It is the intentional killing of a dependent individual for his or her benefit. In this way of reducing population growth, millions of dollars can be saved in medicine and conservation in energy and hospital space. Besides economic benefits, euthanasia is a choice to relieve one from their excruciating pain.
People have to recognize how big of an impact the excessive amount of people in the world has on our environment and resource supply. They need to take responsibility for their actions and the well being of our future. Leaders of our world must have an active role in reducing the growth of our worlds population.
Population Density
5 comments:
Alright we know population is a problem for the world. But what other dilemas come up when thinking about population; social class for example. What are you going mediate with this topic besides population? Since it will evently level off in the next couple of years.
Your argument is stated clearly but I feel that it is a broad topic. Maybe try narrowing the subject more or jsut add some more detail as far as examples that could provide supportive evidence for your argument. In your brief you give two examples for other countries, try to give more of these examples. Also think about including additional way in which you feel that this problem could be addressed or resolved. Good start!
There are a few points I disagree with in your brief.
- I don't believe that preventing people from having children forcibly is the appropriate way to handle the situation. Every person has the right to (responsibly) have the children that they desire. Governments should not be able to infringe on that right.
-It's not the responsibility of our world leaders to intervene in the reproductive processes of other nations. If anything, they need to worry about the pressing issues within their own countries.
I agree that our increasing popoulation do have an impact on world hunger and poverty. But restricting families from having a certain number of kids is very unreasonable. I feel that if each family have the ability to raise certain number of kids, they should be able to do that. And letting government be in control is just unlawful. In order to minimize the issue on world hunger and poverty, we should have the governemnt set up a rule, if you make enough income to support two children, then you should be able to have up to two children.
There is one more point in your brief that I disagree with but have not addressed yet. Euthanasia is not the way to reduce the population growth. Firstly, it's unethical. It's illegal to take another person's life, whether they request it or not. Also, euthanasia will not slow the population growth down to the desired rate. The world's population is increasing more than twice as fast as people are dying. There aren't enough people needing euthanasia to have much, if any, effect on the population growth rate.
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