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The world's population has been booming for year, the world population reached 6 billion on October 12, 1999, and is expected to reach 9.3 billion by 2050! The key to understanding overpopulation is not population density but the numbers of people in an area relative to its resources and the capacity of the environment to sustain human activities or area's carrying capacity.


You can see from this graph of world population growth the incredible extra burden we are putting on the earth’s carrying capacity, especially in Asia and the Pacific.



Overpopulation has been disastrous for the planet. It occurs when its population can't be maintained without rapidly depleting nonrenewable resources and without degrading the capacity of the environment to support the population. Greater populations have polluted and consumed more, ruining the environment and creating a variety of problems. Also, with the food supply limited, increases in population make shortages in many parts of the world even worse.

Nature is a balance of existence. In order to coincide with nature, we must balance the saving and extending of lives with the number of lives which we produce. We mustn't use resources any faster than they can be reproduced. We need to respect ourselves by learning to respect the environment which we rely upon for our own existence.