Abortion from a Kantian and Utilitarianism Perspective
Population Growth You and me, we aren’t that different. But when we compare ourselves to the 6. 2 billion people in this world or even 287. 4 million in the United States, we start to become really different. Take all of the high-rises and stack them up and I bet we could go to the moon. Now you tell me that is not over-population. This world is growing with people every day and it doesn’t stop. Because of the population and its growth, our resources are becoming limited. Our garbage production on this planet is atrocious! It all needs to stop right now.
If we stop populating this world with more people we would become better off later on. Like I said our natural resources are limited and every day a lot of them are getting thrown in the trash. These are all things that have to do with the population. Every day we are changing the environment around us, whether it is building roads, houses, or any other thing in that matter. In doing so we are taking up space on Earth. Which means that we are running out of room to grow. And pretty soon we will have no room to grow on this planet. In Bangladesh, there are 2,405 people per square mile. Hong Kong is virtually made of high-rises that 6. 8 million people live in. The Chinese region of Macau is 57,369 people per square mile. These numbers are all because we are running out of room to grow, thus we are turning to high-rises. Brazil has a population of 176. 5 million people and eight out of ten people live in towns or cities and it grows 1. 3% each year. 1. 3% is what the world’s average growth rate is. And you think that is bad, look at Africa, which has a growth rate of 2. 4% and of course is the highest in the world.
Tokyo, Japan, home of 34 million Japanese, is the largest city in the world. Mexico City, Mexico has 22. 4 million el locos living in it. New York, New York, has 21. 8 million people in its borders and is the 4th largest city. Sao Paulo, Brazil, has 20 million people that I get to go meet and it is the 5th largest city. The 8th largest city is Los Angeles, California that is home to 17. 8 million Americans. The 19th largest city is Rio de Janeiro, which is home to 12 million Brazilians who I also get to meet. Number 26 in Chicago, Illinois, home to 9. 7 million Americans. As I said, this world is growing. In 15,000 BC, 5 million people started hunting and gathering food for themselves. In 5,000 BC there were 66 million people in the world and they could finally settle in one place and farm. And now look at this world! The numbers of humans have never been on the downfall for very long. But the world’s growth rate has been falling at more or less . 1% annually. As you recall, the average growth rate is 1. 3%. In about 40 years from now, more than 50 countries will experience negative growth with a world growth rate of about 0. 34% per year.
Like I’ve said, there are some natural resources that are running out. 70% of the Earth is covered in water. Only 25% of water supplies are clean and healthy in Ethiopia. 69% of the water we use is for farming. Since 10,000 BC, humans have destroyed half of our world’s forests. Let’s face it; mineral resources are finite and should be recycled for future generations. For example, 287. 4 million Americans use ten times the amount of oil Africa does with 840 million people. Although this is not a renewable resource, it is a natural one we are going to run out of real soon. As common sense kicks in, we realize that the more people there is the more oil we use. Now you can take that fact and apply it to ANY resource. To set it straight, 2,000 years ago there were 250 million people in the world. 1700. 679 million people in 1900. 1. 63 billion people in 1920. 1. 96 billion people in 1950. 2. 52 billion people in 1990. 5. 29 billion people in the world. In 1999 the world hit 6 billion people. Today there are about 6. 3 billion and it is growing every day. This is not a good thing. Our environment is being stretched to its limits and it has to stop. We need to stop it by stopping population growth.
