The Population Explotion
In the last 80 years the earth’s temperature has risen over half a degree. That may not sound much by if you consider that if the temperature rises 4 degrees, the global sea level will rise to 5m higher than it is today causing hundreds of coastal cities to be completely under water. This is caused partly by the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The Greenhouse Effect. The Sahara desert is increasing its area by 150 hectares every year. This is caused by over logging and not regenerating the forests turning them into deserts. The ozone layer has been depleted 30% over Antarctica in the last 25 years, due to the build up of CFCs from air-conditioners and aerosols. Having considered some of the ways that humanity is destroying its inheritance; we can look more closely at the idea of ‘overpopulation.’ All too often, overpopulation is thought of as simply as crowding, too many people in a given area, too high a population density. If all the people from China and India lived in the continent of U.S. (excluding Alaska), it still would have a smaller population density than England, Holland or Belgium. Density is generally irrelevant to overpopulation. For instance, if you only took into considerati
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Approximate Word count = 979
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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