write an article in 200 words on impact of overpopulation
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India is now the home to 1.2 billion. Furthermore India’s population is expected to grow to 1.8 billion before stabilizing around the middle of this century, if sufficient measures are taken. Today India is stretched to its limit due to overpopulation. 57 billionaires control 70 percent of India’s wealth. This economic inequality leads to poverty, lack of free medical assistance, lack of social security and bad living conditions. The issues are even more critical due to the advancements in Artificial Intelligence and Automation. Automation threatens 69 percent job losses with millions of job losses already occurring in the IT and production sectors. E-commerce has failed to pick up so far due to job cuts and prices that are not as competitive as in the local marketplace.
Excessive population leads to working institutions dysfunctionality and makes all plans to improve a country’s infrastructure, medical assistance facilities and social welfare initiatives ineffective. This includes the Indian Government which has struggled to enact reforms over the past 69 years since independence.
The consequences of population growth are a problem that the whole world will soon face sooner or later. Drinking water, sewage treatment, inadequate rainfall, rapid depletion of natural resources, extinction of many plant and animal species due to deforestation and loss of eco-systems, increased level of life-threatening air and water pollution, high infant and child mortality rate and hunger due to extreme poverty are some of the results of over-population.
Many people are already aware of the social and environmental problems due to overpopulation, but only a few are aware of its adverse effects on health. Most Indian cities are badly polluted and have little fresh air. This leads to countless airborne diseases and skin infections.
It’s not just India’s struggle, Brazil and China are also coping with the ramifications of overpopulation. It’s time for all global forums to provide effective solutions in order to resolve this problem. Overpopulation can only be solved by spreading awareness of and implementing measures like birth control and access to birth control devices. Let us help the world prepare for a better tomorrow.
Effects of overpopulation
It is estimated that there are 6 billion people living on the earth right now. Our planet has a carrying capacity, which means that it only can provide valuable resources such as food and shelter for a definite amount of living creatures. The earth's carrying capacity has been known to be around 2 billion people, even though these numbers tend to vary greatly (some have determined the earth's carrying capacity to be 44 billion), we are living at a rate in which our natural resources are depleting themselves or being polluted. On top of that more and more people keep being born on this planet (as you read this paragraph, 50 more people will be born onto this world).
Overpopulation has several impacts on earth. Environmental factors such as global warming, deforestation, extinction, and human factors like wars, starvation, fierce competition for wages have a toll not only in the planet but on the way we live. The causes for overpopulation have different roots and seem to vary from culture to culture. Education plays a very important role, educated families where both spouses have some sort of degree tend to have less children, whereas uneducated families tend to be larger. This leads us to the second factor: poverty. In rural and poor areas of the world families tend to be bigger so all of their members can work and support each other, they are also numerous because disease tends to take the life of 1 or 2 kids per poor family in an underdeveloped country. Other more delicate factors such as religion (opposing the use of contraceptives and having the idea of following the word of God by having large families) also have a mild effect on the size of the population.