Detrimental Effects of Overpop

The shortsighted policies of the present towards population growth are dangerously narrowing our options for avoiding environmental disaster in the not so faraway future. Ignoring the problem of rapid population growth in the developing world could be the ultimate global blunder – one from which there may be no recovery. Numerous concerned organizations are involved in a noble effort to slow the continuing deterioration of the world environment including scores of potentially catastrophic concerns which have long term consequences such as the ozone layer, increased emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere causing temperature rise and thus melting the ice cap with the resulting rise of ocean levels, the exhaustion of the crude oil supply and deforestation until there is not enough plant life to convert carbon dioxide back into oxygen, to name just a few. The set of circumstances that will be focused on here are fresh water supply, urbanization, and lastly waste and pollution.

The time it takes a population to double in size is a dramatic way to picture rates of population growth, one more easily understood than percentage growth rates. Human populations grow in a pattern tha

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Approximate Word count = 1572
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)