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Overpopulation: How Can We Control It?

Explore global overpopulation impacts, causes, and solutions through case studies like China's One-Child Policy. Learn about the benefits of population control and the role of education and contraception in managing population growth.

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Overpopulation: How Can We Control It?

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  1. Overpopulation: How Can We Control It? Julie Brontman CPSP218L Section 0201 March 2, 2010 http://courses.spectrum.sd61.bc.ca/teacherFolders/Walsh/pictures/Overpopulation.jpg

  2. (Nicholson-Lord 26)

  3. (Benagiano 5)

  4. Overpopulation Basics • Some countries have stable or declining populations • Many more have increasing population • 3 projections by the United Nations • 8 billion by 2042 • 9.2 billion by 2050 • 10.5 billion by 2050 • (Brown 181-182)

  5. What It Causes • Poverty • Illness • Homelessness • Hunger • Resource depletion http://www.goalsforamericans.org/gallery/d/340-4/3-3-05Overpopulation.jpg

  6. Hesitant to Change • Religion • Misunderstanding the Bible • All children are to be valued • Large families are celebrated, but small families are not discouraged • (Boorse 162-163) http://firebreathingchristian.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/bible.jpg

  7. Hesitant to Change • Economic costs • Education costs money • Contraception costs money • 201 million women in developing countries • $3.9 billion/year • (Benagiano 9)

  8. Benefits of Population Control • Save lives • 76 million unintended pregnancies in 2003 • 184,000 pregnancy-related deaths • 1.8 million infant deaths • (Bongaarts 41) http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/03_02/maternityDM2703_468x550.jpg

  9. Benefits of Population Control • Financial • More people->greater food demand-> increased prices • Large population growth leads to • poor economy • higher poverty rates • (Bongaarts 41)

  10. Different Countries • China • State-controlled One-Child Policy • Prevented the birth of 400 million children • (Nicholson-Lord 24) • United States • Immigration problems • No government policy http://www.learner.org/courses/envsci/visual/img_med/china_one_child.jpg

  11. China’s One-Child Policy • History • 1979 • ¼ of the world’s population • Using 7% of arable land • 2/3 of China’s population under 30 • Baby boomers reproducing • Increasing 10 million people per year • (Hesketh, Lu, Xing)

  12. China’s One-Child Policy • Total fertility rate of 2.1 vs. 1.6 (current rate) • 24% more resources for the family and nationalinvestment • (Potts) http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/05/26/knCHINA_BABIES_wideweb__470x316,0.jpg

  13. (Hesketh, Lu, Xing)

  14. United States • Immigration • “Between 1975 and 2002, the average American home grew 38 percent” • Increased energy consumption • Not sustainable • Greenhouse gas emissions rose 13% between 1990 and 2000 • Similar to 13% population increase • (Motavalli 29)

  15. United States • Supports UNFPA • Department of State -$50 million to UNFPA in 2009 • US promotes • international family planning • women's health • global development • ("International Family Planning and Population Control U.S. Policy and Programs.”)

  16. UNFPA • United Nations Population Fund • International development agency • Uses population data • Programs and policies • Goals • Reproductive health • Increase education • Decrease maternal and infant mortality • ("United Nations Population Fund.”) http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/media/images/UN-LOGO%20copy.jpg

  17. What can we do? • Education • Birth Control http://cdn.woldcnews.com/files//2009/07/university-of-maryland-terrapins-logo1.jpg

  18. Benagiano, Giuseppe, Carlo Bastianelli, and Manuela Farris. "Contraception: A social revolution." European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care 12.1 (2007): 3-12. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 26 Feb. 2010. Bongaarts, John, and Steven W. Sinding. "A Response to Critics of Family Planning Programs." International Perspectives on Sexual & Reproductive Health 35.1 (2009): 39-44. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 25 Feb. 2010. Boorse, Dorothy. "OVERPOPULATION: ECOLOGICAL AND BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES CONCERNING LIMITATION." Worldviews: Environment Culture Religion 7.1/2 (2003): 154. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 24 Feb. 2010. Brown, Lester R. Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. New York: W.W. Norton & Company,, 2009. Print. Hesketh, Therese, Li Lu, and Zhu Xing. "The Effect of China's One-Child Family Policy after 25 Years." The New England Journal of Medicine 353.11 (2005): 1171-176. Web. 25 Feb. 2010. <http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/353/11/1171>. "International Family Planning and Population Control U.S. Policy and Programs." International Debates 7.4 (2009): 11-19. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 26 Feb. 2010. Krauss, Lawrence M. "How Women Can Save the Planet." Scientific American 301.5 (2009): 38. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 25 Feb. 2010. Motavalli, Jim. "DESTINATION AMERICA." E - The Environmental Magazine 19.3 (2008): 26-34. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 25 Feb. 2010. Nicholson-Lord, David. "Planet Overload. (Cover story)." New Statesman 138.4939 (2009): 24-26. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 25 Feb. 2010. Potts, Malcolm. "China's one child policy." BMJ: British Medical Journal 333.7564 (2006): 361-362. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 26 Feb. 2010. "United Nations Population Fund." International Debates 7.4 (2009): 7-11. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 26 Feb. 2010.

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