Over Population
Over PopulationOver Population
The world�s population is approximately 5.9 billion,
and it is still growing. It has just about doubled in the
past forty years. We are now faced with the issue of over
population. The problem is very severe, and important. It
is controversial how many people this planet can hold. Some
are arguing that we have plenty of room, and we could fit
everyone on the state of Alaska, if we just put 10,000
people on each square mile. Alaska only makes up about one
percent of the earth�s land mass. Other people argue that
we need land to grow and supply all the resources we need,
and we do not have enough for everybody. Either way the
issue is looked at though, many people are being deprived of
food, shelter and clothing because of the excess of people.
Many countries are reducing their population by
family planning. Family planning tries to promote the idea
of using some sort of birth control such as condoms, the
pill, sterilization, IUDs, or some other method. Over the
past three decades, the global percentage of couples using
some form of family planning has increased dramatically. It
has changed from less than 10, to more than 50 percent. The
amount of people who use family planning would increase if
everyone had easy accessibility to it. In some rural areas
of sub-Saharan Africa, it takes an average of two hours to
reach the nearest contraceptive provider. Often, people
cannot even afford some type of birth control. Also, many
governments ban or restrict important methods of
contraception. Japan, for instance, discourages the use of
birth control pills over the condom. Also, 60 countries
require a husband�s consent for all forms of birth control.
Even though there are some conflicts with it, I think
family planning seems like the best to solve the world�s
over population problem.
China�s one child policy is generally denounced by a
majority of world nations. Many countries feel that it is
not right to restrict the number of children a person can
have. They believe it is a person�s freedom to choose how
many kids they want. China hopes for their fertility rate
to be 1 child per woman instead of the 1.85 rate they
currently have. Even though China�s policy is very
controversial, China thinks this is what they need to do in
order for their population growth to drop.
Also, China and many other countries are trying to
delay childbearing. They figure, to do this they must first
postpone the age of marriage. In Bangladesh, for example,
the average age of first marriage among woman went from
about 14.4 in 1951 to 18 in 1989. The age at first birth...
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