Overpopulation

There are many problems that effect that world today. I believe that over population is one, if not the biggest problem of the twenty-first century. Many people do not know that every second of the day an average of 4.3 babies are born in the world. (Population Reference Bureau [P.R.B.], 2001.) " The 20th century began with a world populate by 1.6 billion people and will end with 6 billion inhabitants-with most of the growth occurring in poor countries, demographers estimate." (Feinsilber, 1998. P. 1) Today entering the twenty-first century the population is about six billion. (P.R.B., 2001) Also, every year the world's population will grow over seventy-eight million. (Sullivan, 1999. P.3) Meaning the world may very well already be over populated. We as the people living on this earth need to do something about it for the future generations.
The human population is growing rapidly for various reasons. The rise in living standards plays a big role in the......

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