Essay - Population Growth Stress on Environment Introduction: the World Population Has...

Population Growth stress on Environment

Introduction:

The world population has increased exponentially over the last 100 years, as technology and development outstrip the ability of the fragile planet to absorb ***** massive influx of polluting ***** needy people. To survive people must have land, water and fuel and yet, upon the earth such elements are finite, unless technology meets the dem***** for sustainable or human created sources of *****se *****.

A economic growth, the rise in living standards and increased consumption levels have brought on dramatic increases in per capita demand f***** *****, energy, food and fresh water *****, ********** of a simil*****r magnitude in ***** production of wastes and pollutants. With the rapid loss of agricultural land and natural habitats (around 2% per decade in Western Europe), induced by low-density suburban sprawl, strong metropolitan decentralisation trends and the rise of the car, concern ***** focused on ***** global significance of the increase in ***** capita ***** consumption and carbon emissions.

(Jenks & Burgess, 2000, p. 12)

The difficulty of this development is that the balance of the environment can be thrown off, unknowingly with the depletion of resources or the development ***** new resources to create human sustain***** at exponential ***** of popul*****ion.

The rapid increase in consumption levels in the wealthy regions of the world and ***** ***** growth in world population -- with the haves eager at least to preserve wh***** they have gained, ***** the **********, with all good reason, claiming an equal share in the increasing st*****dard of living or 'good life' -- have, during ***** last decades, made it obvious to almost everyone ***** natural resources are fragile and the resilience of the world's ecosystems is limited.

***** & Landberg, 1997, p. v)

Lindahl-Kiessling & Landberg, point out that the challenges of ***** ***** of sustainable population growth are not only many but they are exacerbated by the fact that massive population ***** often develops ***** of the desire of those ***** in poverty to have enough manpower to build a better future. The state ***** economic depravity, in other words, challenges the environment in ***** seeking to gain the ability to *****, in an economic sense creates a situation where ***** planet ********** survive ***** an environmentally ***** manner. The ***** of given regions are then depleted ***** such a degree that the large families, seeking to gain a piece of ***** good life, succeed only in challeng*****g their own environment and becoming poorer.

***** limited capacity of change of the basic socio-***** systems and ***** ***** growth create, *****gether with these limitations, a real threat to mankind and man as part of nature. It ***** not a c*****e ***** 'us' ***** 'them' ***** time is running short for all of us. The *****al impact ***** high consumption ***** in the industrialized world endows the rich countries ***** a problem of no less importan***** than fast population growth in the South. ***** would seem that ***** scientists and politicians alike the message is