Population growth is taking responsibility for some of the major social and environmental issues that are plaguing the world today. People are using population growth as an escape or as an easy target for reasoning these problems, instead of considering more complicated sources such as our political leaders who are worried more about money and power rather than the social well-being of the earth's citizens. With that being said, the issue at hand is that people are placing accountability of causing these problems on population growth when instead peoples attention should be brought to the actuality of why these problems exist or in fact that these problems do not exi

This is a well thought out theory however, one that should be backed up with proof because it assumes that "solutions are eventually found." This theory was proven to be legit by a bet between Simon and Paul Ehrlich the author of the Population Bomb who believes that population growth is a burden on our resources.

Firstly, the term finite is inappropriate and misleading when used to predict the amount of natural resources available in the world. This is so because no human being can say that every sector of the earth has been searched, and the total amount of each resource available has been discovered.

Although Simon's "market theory" proves that population growth does not increase the scarcity of our natural resources rather it helps it, a comparison between Ethiopia and Germany will also help prove this. Germany has a population "growth rate of 0.27% and a GDP of 1, 936 trillion dollars per year." (Central Intelligence Agency, 2001) Ethiopia has a "population growth rate of 2.79% and a GDP of 39.2 billion dollars per year." (Central Intelligence Agency, 2001) This comparison rightfully assumes that the higher GDP that a nation has, the more resources it will use. It is undisputable that population growth is not the cause of our natural resource scarcity because nations with the highest growth rates use the least amount of natural resources. Perhaps the evidence will alter the mind frame of those that believe that population growth is causing the depletion of our resources and with significant evidence it will be proven that population growth is not the cause of famine.

There are still those who believe that that there will not be enough food in even the countries that have and abundance of food to support future population growth. "More generally, with present technology and without moving towards the much higher yields found under experimental conditions, the world can more than feed any foreseeable population increase." (The Ultimate Resource II, 1998) There are many new technological advances such as "better storage facilities that will reduce 15-25% of food that is lost from rotting."(The Ultimate Resource II, 1998) Another technological advance that will make it nearly impossible for there to be a lack of food on this earth is factory grown food, with the use of hydroponics.

It is useful to compare Africa and Asia in this respect. In proportion to its population, Asia has about half as much arable land as Africa but in the past 20 years malnutrition (as a percentage of the population) has declined sharply in Asia but not at all in Africa. A critical difference is that most Asian countries have been far more successful in efforts to alleviate poverty, create effective agricultural markets, and have been far more successful in efforts to transfer high yield seeds, fertilizer and irrigation to farmers. (Union of Concerned Scientists, n.d.)

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