An Analysis of Population Growth and Its Effects on Greenhouse Gases

This report examines the relationship between population growth and greenhouse gas emissions, focusing on the environmental challenges faced by developing countries, particularly China. It explores the background of greenhouse gases, their contribution to global warming, and the economic, security, and political challenges faced by China due to excessive emissions. The report identifies transportation and industry as key contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, highlighting the use of fossil fuels. It also suggests potential solutions, such as controlling fossil fuel use, treating gases before release, increasing tree planting, and implementing vehicle pollution checks. The report emphasizes the direct proportionality between population growth and pollution, advocating for measures to mitigate environmental impact and promote sustainable practices. The United Nations' role in addressing these issues and the need for global cooperation are also underscored.

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Introduction:
In this age of increase in population the amount of pollution is also increasing day by
day. Population is always is directly proportionate to the pollution. Therefore the increase in the
number of population has resulted in polluting the world greatly. The United Nations have
started researching against the countries which are generating great amount of pollution also
exceedingly crossing the limit of population. United Nation has addressed to identify those
countries and bring in a paper that will provide the information regarding the rise in pollution.
Therefore this research paper will cover the probable criteria that it will be looking into:
background, how the emission of harmful gases causes problems for the developing world,
causes and solutions of the Greenhouse Gas. The research paper will be considering China as one
of the most polluted developing countries in the world. There are a lot of greenhouse gases of
them, carbon dioxide will be considered as one of the most affecting gas of all of them. The
research will be looking into the scientific research works and rely on statistical evidences for the
production of the research as addressed by the UN and will infer upon the information produced
and accessed. (Sarkodie, Samuel Asumadu, and Vladimir Strezov.2019).
Section 1. Background:
Greenhouse Gas:
Greenhouse Gases are the gases that are produced from the transports, air
conditioners and various facilities than run on fossil fuels, this gases are absorbed
by the infrared radiation and creates a gaseous blanket over the atmosphere. It
does not let the excessive heat to reflect back away from earth rather than making
stay within the atmosphere causing rise in temperature. This process is much

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similar to that of the greenhouses where plants are grown therefore the gases are
termed as Green House Gases. For example- carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons,
methane, nitrous oxide. (Chang, Yuan, et al. 2015)
Greenhouse contribute to Global Warming:
The greenhouse gases create a gaseous mass right under the atmosphere as
there are a lot of gaseous components along with the impurities that are released
into the air. These gaseous does not gets absorbed by the earth’s atmosphere and
therefore remains suspended into the atmosphere. Due to use of various kinds of
gadgets and transport that use fossil fuels to run and function and due to smoking,
the amount of gases emitted are of a huge quantity. Due to this the gases forming
blanket right under the atmosphere does not let the extra heat of the sunrays to
reflect away from the earth. Hence the heat remains within the earth’s atmosphere
and therefore it is causing in global warming. Which indirectly is hampering the
weather and the climate and also is responsible in melting of the ice bergs
(Herndon, J. Marvin 2018).
Section 2. Emission Causing Problems for the Developing World:
Countries producing the most Greenhouse Gases:
At present there are a number of countries that are producing greenhouse gases.
This is highly seen in the developed countries but the developing countries are producing
as well. China is the highest producer leading the charts of Carbon dioxide production
being a developing country as per 2015 statistical information provided by the Union of

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Concerned Scientists. From developed countries USA and Russia are in 2nd and 4th place,
whereas being a developing country India is in the 3rd place (Nowak, David 2019).
Economic challenges faced by China:
According to Mohajan, Haradhan. (2014), China depends on its agriculture and
also on its industrial production as country is equally facilitated with both the two types
of facilities. Due to this greenhouse gas emission the agriculture of China is hampered
deeply as there the monthly GDP has gone down over the years for China. The rigidity of
the economic background is due to the political control. Therefore the China is suffering
more from the effects of the greenhouse gas effects. The economy is getting disrupted as
the amount of crops produced is getting disrupted rotting in the fields. Similar problem is
faced by USA. Thus the challenges faced are pretty much affecting the country as it has
to maintain a large population. The country is getting dry as well, for which the crops are
not be get good irrigation facilities. Thus the economic stability of the country is getting
disrupted massively (Awasthi, Mukesh Kumar, et al. 2019).
Security Challenges Faced by China:
China is facing the security challenges due to the greenhouse gas emissions. Due
to this the temperature of the atmosphere of China has changed greatly. The climactic
changes has changed abruptly and the melting of ice, has become a serious threat to the
inhabitants in the hilly areas. Hence the ice melting has created a problem for them as
avalanches and sudden breaking of huge boulders of ice and along with large chunks of
ice is happening for which many lives have been taken and lost. This is affecting also in
the tourism department of China (Campos, Jorge, et al. 2016).

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Political Challenges faced by China:
Due to massive emission of the greenhouse gases china has received a warning
from the UN, in the World Environment Summit. The political outlook has changed as
the country has faced leaders who were not concerned in maintaining the emission of the
greenhouse gases, and this now has resulted and affected the country greatly, depleting its
resources and also the sustenance of life has become difficult. The political scenario has
been disrupted due to this excessive emission because it has become difficult to handle
the situation and to contain it. China is now on the watch list to make fast progress to
improve its current status (Rafaj, Peter, et al. 2015).
Section 3.
Two Causes of the Greenhouse Gases:
There are various causes behind emission of the Greenhouse Gases, two of the
most important are:
 Transportation: It is due to the transports that greenhouse has exceeded
so much and it has become uncontrollable for it. Due to the increase in
population there has been the increase of transportation has taken place.
Transports emit the largest amount of the greenhouse gases. Greenhouse
gases are mostly generated due to the burning of fossil fuels. And since the
transports use petrol and diesel; fossil fuels, therefore the emissions are the
most from them. Transport emissions contribute to 28.9 percent as
recorded in 2017. (US EPA) [Accessed on 27th July 2019].

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 Industry: In industries the emission of greenhouse is quite formidable as
because coal is used a lot in the furnaces and also for running large power
plants. The factories and several big industrial firms are run fully on the
power of the fossil fuels. The chimneys give out a lot of harmful gaseous
compounds in the air along with the impurities which has resulted in the
formation of the greenhouse gases, affecting the environment greatly. (US
EPA) [Accessed on 27th July 2019].
Potential solutions:
The gases has to be treated carefully before releasing them in the air. The use of
fossil fuels must be controlled and also the generation of the checking of the purity level
of the gases must be made. Planting of tress should be increased. And pollution check of
the vehicles must be done frequently.
Relationship between population control and the greenhouse gases:
Due to the massive surge of population, the amount of the pollution is increasing.
The facilities used by the amount of people is increasing and therefore the increase in
waste products is also increasing. People are using more amount of transports and every
other facilities that are harming the environment. Therefore pollution is directly
proportionate to the population of the country. (Didenko, Skripnuk and Mirolyubova
2017).
Conclusion:
The United Nations might analyze from this research that the number of the countries are
increasing which are emitting the greenhouse gas. The environment is being affected greatly due

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to this. Developed countries as well as the developing countries are emitting massive amount of
Greenhouse gases, which is alarming for the world environment. Therefore the UN organize an
environment summit and bring forward the alarming matter and should come up with possible
measures that can be taken for the countries that are at a critical state due to the massive amount
of pollution and population as well. The use transports should be restricted. The treatment of
smoke released in the air by the factories should be treated carefully. The use of natural,
renewable sources of energy should be made compulsory and the use of fossil fuels should be
restricted (Szulejko, Jan E., et al. 2017).

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