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An 8 page paper which examines population control
as it concerns the affects of population, directly and indirectly, on the environment.
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8 pages (~225 words per page)
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with most people arguing that overpopulation is leading to direct as well as indirect impact on the environment. One author notes that "The typical picture painted by advocates of population
control is of an environment literally eaten up and chopped down by the masses of people in the Third World," which is often premise argued by the Western world where
people are more apt to have less children (Begin , 2003). This is only one of the arguments and one of the perspectives. And, bearing that in mind the following
paper examines some of the controversy, thereby illustrating some of the direct and indirect impacts that population growth has upon the environment. Population and the Environment As
mentioned in the introduction, "The typical picture painted by advocates of population control is of an environment literally eaten up and chopped down by the masses of people in the
Third World" But, "is this picture based on reality? As Bello also points out, Thailand provides a good illustration of how, in many Third World countries, it is not
population growth but the impact of Northern overconsumption that is the principal engine of ecological degradation" (Begin , 2003). This provides us with a complex foundation from which we can
begin to see the direct and indirect impact made by a growing population on the environment. In engaging in this examination we first turn to one individual who argues
that population control is necessary. "Thomas Malthus....stated that as population grows geometrically and available resources increases arithmetically, then it becomes apparent that at some point the resources will be insufficient
to maintain the population (Kii)" (Johnston 1996). Johnston (1996) argues that "To see this one only needs to look at our primary resource: land. I think it is apparent that
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