Population: “Asset or Alarm Bells”
Population indicates the number of people who lives
in a specific area. According to the sources, the number of livings on earth is
now more than 7 billion and increasing progressively. This seems like a good
thing or can be considered as an asset for the world but it can also turn to be
an affliction if the explosion cannot be controlled. This is because, people
need particular things to survive and there should be a balance between the
things –resources- and the rate of population. However, due to tremendous
growth in population, resources cannot responding our needs. Consequently, high
rate of population growth turns to be an affliction when it actually could be
an asset. The general rate is currently growing at a rate of approximately 1.14%
per year and if it continue to growing more, the problems we should have to
face with will be more in relation to lacking of resources. Some of these
problems are shortage of food, poverty and housing (accommodation) problems.
To begin with shortage;
Shortage is one of the major problems, nearly can be seen every part in the world.
It can be in economy field or for instance; labor shortage but the most
important one for all human being is shortage of food to stay alive and carry
out vital functions. On account of growing population, food supply in markets
do not provide the population needs, the resources are starting to run out. Approximately
7 billion people live in the world and more or less one in eight cannot find
enough food supply to eat. This is because, as the population rate increase, the
amount of food supply which people have to take increase. It seems like the
population are growing drastically and in a fast way than people’s ability to
grow food and that will eventually open the doors for a mass starvation in the
near future. Even right now, 10 million people die of starvation and
hunger-related diseases every year because they could not have the chance to
get sufficient food supply.
The second
problem which population explosion –though not directly- led to is poverty.
Everything about this problem start with another problem: Educational problems.
In many countries in the world, some families are not send their children to
schools maybe it is because economic reasons and fees or maybe it is because
some cultural beliefs. Therefore, in a situation like this, children cannot
access to education and their job alternatives which they will do in the future
are diminishing. Especially, in undeveloped countries usually these children
have job prospects like farming and manual labor which do not even supply the
simple needs. That is why some families think to give birth to benefit their
children to provide extra income. However, that just makes the things worse
than ever because according to some research, people who make a living by
farming have more children to provide more labor and income. Due to increasing
population rate, access to health services and education are becoming less and the
next generation is prone to repeat the cycle. As a result, lack of education
with population growth, trigger the poverty.
Thirdly and
lastly; Housing problems are also one of the critical results of population explosion.
The population is growing with an uncontrollable way so the accommodation needs
of people and the number of households are rising. This is because some people
are living alone and maybe some of them have second properties. Thus, a country
with a dense population might need extra houses per year. However, these extra
need houses come up with new problems like great pressure on limited resources
such as water and electricity. This is because, when there is more home the
more amount of water will be consumed and the more electricity, natural gas
will be used. In this respect, for instance, UK could not obstruct this problem
and called for a new law. The report stated that London is in a housing crisis
due to steadily increasing population. This housing crisis make the rents 64%
higher, consequently, the number of families cannot afford to own a home has increased.
Plus, the report finds that in addition to housing, population growth generates
supplementary demand for food, water and electricity because of the number of
living humans in houses.
In conclusion;
this unbalanced and unconscious increase is one of the global problems we
should deal with. Each day, with growing population, our problems are getting
bigger proportionally. People need adequate quantity of food to survive but due
to high growth in population, shortage shows itself with insufficient
resources. This time, poverty starts to show itself on account of the people
who obliged to live with insufficient resources and food, that is to say,
constitution of bad conditions. Bad conditions make life even harder. Housing
problem is also one of them. Rising number of households, expensive land prices
are all results of population explosion. From this point of view, since
population dense is important for us to live in better conditions, we should be
careful about it. If we can take a look at mathematically, we already see
instability between resources and population. Though in the moment, we do not
recognize it clearly, approximately within 50 years our resources will be
finished according to the estimates. Therefore, we should take some precautious
to keep a balance between population and resources for the world’s future.
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