Control overpopulation to remain away from starvation

BUSP003 Policy Brief Autumn 2022 1234567
Title: Control overpopulation to remain away from starvation.
Introduction
This will be a short report on the policy brief regarding the issue of overpopulation. As we all
know that every year Population is increasing on an exponential rate which is highly
dangerous for us as a society in many aspects.
Your Chosen Social Dilemma
The issue which I have been discussing on is In India, wives typically outlast their male
partners. Upon the passing of their husbands, most of them are left unable to work and
dependent on their sons for financial support. It's in everyone's best interest for women to
have as many children as they can. But the result is an overpopulation crisis that causes
environmental degradation and adds some economic challenges to the government.
Therefore, it is very important to discuss this issue. This comes under the context of social
dilemma, as the social dilemma is defined as “social dilemma is where two or more economic
agents are acting in self-interest, but they are not fully aware of the impact their actions have
on others” . In this particular example, that two economic agents would be the woman of the
society who are acting in their self-interest, but they are not aware of the impact they are
putting on the government and the environment, this problem is not only found in India, but
many countries in the world. In Figure 3 we can observe that in the current state we have
around 7.4 billion population and it is expected by 2100 that the population will rise up to
11.2 billion.
The very fatal effect we see is that overpopulation has devastating consequences. One of
reasons is that resources are being Depleted (Figure 4). Water and food production are
insufficient because the Earth can only generate Limited amount. Then also due to trees are
trees are also being cut down to facilitate more population, which is eventually causing global
warming to Earth. These are some of the effects we see in the environment, but if you look at
this from the perspective of economic situation. Rise in unemployment. Which is currently
the biggest problem in our society many people who are well educated but cannot able to fit
into industry due to high saturation in every field. Then also there is a very high cost of
living, high cost of fuels and daily use products. Then also due to the environment
degradation, the tourism in the country will also decrease. These all factors combined will be
overwhelming for the country's government.
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BUSP003 Policy Brief Autumn 2022 1234567
Applying Social Interactions and Game Theory to Your Example
Figure 1: Descriptive Payoff Matrix
WOMEN 2
HAVE
CHILDREN
NOT HAVE
CHILDREN
WOMEN 1
HAVE
CHILDREN
Both women choose
to have children
Women 1 chooses to
have children and
Women 2 chooses
not to have children
NOT HAVE
CHILDREN
Women 1 chooses to
not to have children
and Women 2
chooses have
children
Both women choose
not to have children
Figure 2: Numerical Payoff Matrix
WOMEN 2
HAVE
CHILDREN
NOT HAVE
CHILDREN
WOMEN 1
HAVE
CHILDREN (2, 2) (2, 0)
NOT HAVE
CHILDREN (0, 2) (0, 0)
According to statistics, a family should have around 2 children and 4 family members in the
house. The goal of game theory is to provide an explanation for how people interact with one
another in social settings. Human interaction is viewed as games in game theory, as the name
of the theory suggests. a game. In this game theory payoff matrix have children means having
more than 2 children. We will define this as the simultaneous move as rule of our game,
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