Living in Arkansas, " the natural state" we don"t really think of our world as overpopulated, but instead often wish there was more going on. We need to be thankful though. Did you know that if your standing on a street in India and you look into a home and notice that a kitchen fire looks brighter than normal it"s probably not because of too much greese, but instead due to a burning child? Your probably thinking that sounds bizarre and how does this tie into overpopulation. Well as crude and barbaric as burning or cremating children in a kitchen may sound it happens all too often in the overpopulated country of India. If you are a hardheaded optimist you might be saying to yourself well that"s in India where they"re crazy, but you would have to be pretty crazy to argue that overpopulation in the U.S. isn"t a problem.

             Considering the overcrowded classrooms, used up soil and agricultural resources, lack of energy and the damage done to the air and wildlife that we are surrounded by.

             So what I"m getting at is that from the Phillapenes to New York to Africa our world is being used for all it"s worth. .

             Not only will I speak about the problems with overpopulation far and wide throughout the world but also I would like to emphasize the time issue in correlation with the growth of the birth rate and death rate. .

             Now I know that graphs are about as exciting as chapel, but this graph really simplifies the explanation of the "Malthusian Theory" which is simply a theory that was developed by Thomas Malthus in 1798 arguing that populations grow geometrically which just means that MORE PEOPLE PRODUCE MORE PEOPLE. .

             (Explain graph.) World War 2 death rate did not effect the population climb.

             In result of this steadily rising population rate, India"s population exceeded 1 billion this past May. According Christian Century, India"s one billionth baby was lucky if it was a boy, because girl"s survival rates are much lower.