Question

' Diminishing means and increasing wants ' are the two root causes of all environmental problems. comment on the statement?​

Answer 1

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At present, many citizens are concerned about environmental issues. Special-interest groups exist to combat the greenhouse effect, nuclear waste generation, pesticide use, and pollution in general. However, most people fail to realize that population increase is the underlying cause of all these problems.

Computer modeling techniques, summarized in The Global 2000 Report and shown in the World 3 model, emphasize population problems. Well-known sources such as the United Nations Population Division and the Population Reference Bureau have also been used to support the following statements. The current world population exceeds 5.4 billion people. It is expected that there will be more than 6 billion people on the planet by 2000. Although the rate of population growth is decreasing, it has not dropped as fast as the population base has grown. Therefore, the world population continues to increase each year. Studies show that the carrying capacity of an intensively managed world is unlikely to ever exceed 10 billion people and current forecasts project that number for the year 2030. Problems associated with excessive population growth are: water shortages, air and water pollution, destruction of arable land, soil erosion, food and fuel shortages, increased disease and many more.

Population is the root of all environmental problems being experienced by today's society. Therefore, wouldn't it make sense to devote most of our efforts to fighting this root cause instead of its many effects? It stands to reason that fewer people will produce less pollution, require less developed land, and use less resources. I believe that it is time to re-evaluate the pride we place in large families. Population is not just a Third World problem, as most people want to believe. Global population increase will create environmental problems that will affect everyone on the planet. Being one of the most powerful nations in the world, the United States should use its influence to stabilize global population trends by decreasing its own population size.

Answer 2

I disagree with both the wants and the resources parts of this issue ' Diminishing means and increasing wants ' , even though I am not a supporter of a wholly laissez-faire approach to the environment because to the necessity to internalise externalises.

• First off, as was mentioned here, resources aren't static; rather, they are created by deliberate human action, as AM stated in one of his responses Thus, preaching continuously about the planet's carrying capacity is a new instance of the Malthusian fallacy.

• What are unneeded "wants" and what are necessary "needs," secondly? A automobile could be considered a luxury in India yet necessary in the USA. Human beings are other-referential in addition to having cultural distinctions; if I move in a group where most people have iPhones but I don't, I'll feel out of place.
• What's more, who makes the decisions? A social planner fashioned after Plato's writings or the very real politicians in this place and time? Even in the circumstances of a fictitious "superabundance," the distributive problem, which necessitates some rights regimes, cannot be avoided.