Why are we becoming over populated? There are two main reasons to over population. Number one, people are living longer due to the Medical and Technical revolutions. Number two, we are having children at a earlier age; an example of this would be the abundant amount of teen pregnancies. Global warming exists because of over population. "Global warming is believed to be caused by changes in the earth's atmosphere as a result of industrial process."(Leggett 124) This holds true because after the Industrial Revolution man started to utilize more fossil fuels. The constant usage of fossil fuels emits CFC's (carboflourocarbon's) into the atmosphere. Due to heavy amounts of defores

tation and the destruction of oxygen producing organisms, more carbon than oxygen is being cycled within the atmosphere, generating large openings in our ozone layer. It is because of the tremendous size holes in the ozone, we have what is called global warming. Global warming is so important because it impacts every living thing in our biosphere. Global warming produces a rise in temperature, alters weather conditions, raises the sea level (melting of the polar caps), animal depletion, shortage in crops, etc. Global warming is increasing so rapidly directly because of the ever so large world population and human production. It is because of the emittance of fossil fuels produced by vehicles and factories, that we have such a high rate of increase of global temperature. According to The Global Issues Sourcebook, "global warming leads to uncontrollable releases of greenhouse gases from various sinks resulting in uncontrollable warming."(P 499) The greenhouse effect is very different than global warming; one contributes to the other. Global warming is a dead end, there is no way to stop it, and we can only slow the process down. Overpopulation and global warming negatively impact our ecosystem.

There seems to be a debate on if we will exceed our carrying capacity or not. Some say we already have. There are two widely known theories concerning population and food. Thomas Malthus, a famous philosopher, was greatly interested in this correlation. He introduced

Global warming is something that is currently damaging our ecosystem severly: ice burgs are melting, diseases are spreading, and temperatures are rising. The United Nations has formed a panel to keep up with global warming; this panel is called the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change otherwise known as IPCC. This panel gives the public information on our struggling environment. "The IPCC reports that climate change has begun, and that the change is due to human emission of fossil fuels."(WAR 504) The excessive use of fossil fuels in the environment is causing changes with crops, weather, population locations, landmasses, and wild life. There are many contributory agents to global warming. Carbon dioxide is a largest contributing factor to global warming. "Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have already increased by 25 percent from the pre-industrial levels and are now at the highest levels for 160,000 years (Harvey 16)." Because the forests are being chopped down there is less trees to absorb and recycle the carbon and make it into oxygen. The trees are necessary in order to control global warming; they take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and through photosynthesis they generate oxygen. There is a heavy demand for lumber, therefore there are less and less trees to contribute in the slowing of the global warming process. In turn, this results back to over population, we are cutting down forest after forest in order to provide more homes and better standards of living

Man plays the biggest role in global warming and any other environmental problem you can think of. Human beings are the ones burning the fossil fuels, cutting down the forest, raising the cattle, reproducing, and have a longer life span. Our constant growing population is demanding more land and fossil fuels. It is because of this high demand that man is contributing. Man has become very comfortable for a luxury life style. This life style requires to mass processing of n

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