Controlling Population Growth

This essay highlights the reasons why governments should take measures to control population growth and the damages it is doing to the environment and humanity. It sheds light on the factors causing loss of biodiversity, deforestation, global warming, and limitations of natural resources and land. The paper emphasizes the need for implementing population control measures to ensure sustainability and savings of resources and the environment.

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Introduction
Population refers to the number of people in a particular geographical area. The rapid
growth of it is still the biggest problem that is being faced by the humanity. The impact of
population growth on the financial system of the nations is apparently straightforward. It is
all about having sufficient resources in order to meet the necessities of the increasing number
of people. As the same resources are been shared by every members of the community or
society, each and every one is influenced by the growth and development and most of them
are underprivileged of the access of the same resources. With the same, both the global and
the domestic population growth is contributing to the conflicts over energy, water,
transportation, infrastructure, foods etc. Also, in the developing countries like India, China,
Tanzania etc., are causing poor health and poverty among the countrymen (Gerland et al.
2014). It is to note that the merits and the demerits of controlling the growth of population
could be shown in the studies where the issues of population are very important component
of the policy discussion on the economic and social development (Hugo, 2012). There is a
high need of controlling this issue. As per different researchers and academicians, countries
should develop several ways for lessening the future issue and it also falls under the duties of
the government to take this matter into consideration. This paper is going to elaborate on
providing suitable reasons for why governments need to take measure for controlling the
issue of population growth.
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This essay would highlight the major reasons behind why governments should take
actions in order to minimise the population growth and would shed light on the several
factors and damages that it is doing to the environment and humanity. One of the biggest
threats or challenges of the continued increasing population is that of loss of biodiversity and

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increase in environmental harmful activities such as deforestation, global warming and the
limitations of natural resources and land. Urbanisation and the pressure on the agricultural
sectors are the main cause of global warming and deforestation respectively. With the
increase in population, there is increase in consumption as well. It also puts much pressure on
the employment and income of the population (Little, 2012). Adding to this is the increasing
toxicity in the environment because of huge amounts of chemical that have been released by
different companies in absence of good scientific understanding of the long-term impacts.
“The loss of forest cover is directly adding up to the climatic change as the forests contain
huge amounts of stored carbon which returns to the atmospheres when tress are demolished”
(Johansson et al. 2015). Hence, government should implement different population control
measures in order to control the growing population in order to ensure sustainability and
savings of the resources and environment.

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