Population…A Problem That Most of the World Simply...

Population†¦A Problem That Most of the World Simply Disregards There are over Six Billion people inhabiting the planet earth today and that number is growing. â€Å"In the six seconds it takes you to read this sentence, eighteen more people will be added† (Ehrlich 9). The total population of the World, projected on October 23, 2001 at 6:28:09 pm GMT was 6,181,600,089 people (U.S. Bureau of the Census). Each hour there are 11,000 more mouths to feed; each year more than 95 million. Nevertheless, the world has hundreds of billions fewer tons of topsoil and hundreds of trillions fewer gallons of groundwater with which to grow food crops than it had in 1968. Millions of people every year are dying because they are not getting enough†¦show more content†¦They are linked â€Å"to food-production statistics, to the prospect of a billion or more deaths from starvation and disease, and to the possible dissolution of society as we know it† (Ehrlich 11). Our planet is overcrowded, we have too many people and that affects both our ecosystem, economic system, and how our society runs. Nature has it’s own way of eliminating a problem, and it’s problem is people. We’re causing the problem for ourselves. We created global warming because we emit too many CFC’s into the atmosphere by driving gas-guzzling vehicles, and not monitoring our industrial output. We’ve created huge holes in our protective ozone, which then cause droughts and crop failures that may lead to premature deaths of a billion or more people in the next decade. In addition to more frequent and more severe crop failures, projected consequences of the warming include coastal flooding, desertification, the creation of as many as 300 million environmental refugees (Menk 34), alteration of patterns of disease, water shortages, and general stress on natural ecosystems. 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