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Overpopulation

Overpopulation. Helen Pane, Kaitlyn Peters and Scott Loberg. Overpopulation. The population is exceeding the world’s capacity of the environment to supply us with healthy living, water, a place to live, and necessary food to stay alive. . QUESTION TIME.

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Overpopulation

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  1. Overpopulation Helen Pane, Kaitlyn Peters and Scott Loberg

  2. Overpopulation • The population is exceeding the world’s capacity of the environment to supply us with healthy living, water, a place to live, and necessary food to stay alive.

  3. QUESTION TIME • Which continent do you think has the world’s fastest growing population?

  4. CAUSES • Exponential growth • Advancements in health technology

  5. QUESTION TIME • What do you think some of the effects of overpopulation are?

  6. EFFECTS • Deforestation • When trees are cut down and then reforestation does not occur • The more the population grows there is a greater need for land and resources so people are cutting down trees to use them for houses • 50,000 species of plants and animals a year become extinct due to deforestation • There used to be 14.8 billion acres of forest and now there are only 8 billion • Deforestation is also one of the causes of global warming

  7. EFFECTS • Limited resources • Fossil fuels • Water • Land area • Food

  8. QUESTION TIME • How many hours a day do you think women and children around the world walk to get clean and safe water?

  9. EFFECTS • Air pollution • The car population has grown five times as fast as the human population • Mercury, lead and carbon dioxide are released into the hair from cars

  10. QUESTION TIME • What do you think the worlds current population is at?

  11. EFFECTS • As the population increases so does war • 1970-1999 80% of all civil conflicts that caused at least 25 deaths occurred in countries in which 60% or more of the population was under the age of 30 • An increase of people causes more shortages of food and land and people fighting over them

  12. SOLUTIONS • Education • Safe sex, contraceptive options, make information and contraceptives available to places like Africa.

  13. SOLUTIONS • One child policy • 1979 • Highly controversial • Tax on every child after the first • Increase in sexism • Children go unregistered

  14. QUESTION TIME • Do you think there should be a one child policy in the United States?

  15. Conclusion • Educate people about sex • Supply contraceptives • Bill Gates, Ted Turner and Warren Buffet donated money to different organizations

  16. Works Cited • Bibliography • Callohan, Christopher. Rainforest Deforestation. 01 May 2008. 9 November 2008 <http://kanat.jsc.vsc.edu/student/callahan/mainpage.htm>. • Dewey, Arthur E. "One-Child Policy in China." 14 December 2004. 10 November 2008. • http://www.state.gov/g/prm/rls/39823.htm • Eberstadt, Nicholas. "Doom and Demography." Wilson Quarterly. Winter 2006. SIRS Researcher. <http://sks.sirs.com/sgi-bin/hst-clean • Francis, David R. "Fuse on the Population Bomb" Has been Relit." Christian Science Monitor. 21 May 2007. SIRS Researcher. <http://sks.sirs.com/cgibin/hst-article-display. • Francis, David R. "How to SLow the Population Clock." Christian Science Monitor. 3 July 2006. SIRS Researcher<http://sks.sirs.com/cgi-bin/hst-article-display • Kinzer,Stephen. "After So Many Deaths, Too many Births." New York Times. 11 Feb 2007. SIRS Researcher. <www.nationalgeographic.com/after/deaths/manybirths • Mason, Paul. Planet Under Pressure: Population. Chicago: Heinemann Library, 2006 • Society, National Geographic. Eye in the Sky- - Overpopulation. 2006-2008. 9 November 2008 <http://www.nationalgeographic.com/eye/overpopulation/overpopulation.html>. • Zeaman, John. Overpopulation. New York: Franklin Watts, 2002.

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