Population Explosion Your Subtitle Goes Here
Dec 31, 2015
AIR• Clean air is a scarce commodity• Human activity means pollution in
the air• More pollution=more human
activity=less oxygen• Fossil fuels add 5.5 billion tons of
carbon to the atmosphere yearly• More people means more carbon
dioxide=less oxygen
FOOD• The human body requires a certain
amount of calories to survive—fortunately our capacity to produce food has matched our capacity to produce kids
• As population goes up—demand goes up—capacity goes down
• By the 1980’s 11 major oceanic fisheries had been depleted to the point of collapse
• By 2008 an additional 30 nations will be unable to feed themselves
WATER• All living things require water for
survival• More people=more demand for
water=less water• 4 of every 5 people lack access to fresh
water• As people increase, waste increases which
is usually dumped into the water
SHELTER• Building shelters requires materials• As mans numbers increase, the availability
of resources decrease• Since World War II an area the size of China
and India has been so damaged by human activity that it has lost most of its biological activity
• 1/3 of the earth’s surface (land) on which nearly 1/5 of humanity lives is threatened by desertification
CAUSES OF OVERPOPULATION
• SEX—OBVIOUSLY—cultural factors--like male dominated societies and demand for Boy babies
CAUSES…• MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY—
Spending billions to cure diseases but setting up planet earth for a serious population problem
CAUSES…• ECONOMICS—most poor countries
have no welfare system, no social security, etc... By having many children they get a “living” retirement system. Labor intensive farming—breed your own workforce