Overpopulation plus the diminishing surplus of food production is a defining issue in underdeveloped countries in this world. In retrospect this concern has not been addressed as well is it could be because of politics and, the fact that developed countries are already preoccupied with their own economies. I have heard of a term none as “The Circle of Poverty” this is the driving force behind underdevelopment. Basically the circle of poverty of a country states that “low/no PRODUCTION = low/no EMPLOYMENT = low/no INCOME = low/no DEMAND = UNBREAKEABLE CIRLE OF POVERTY”. In order to perhaps better the issue for some of these countries is to increase production somehow; so that every other aspect of the circle of poverty can recover and the country become developed.
all the food that is massively produced in the US could feed all of Africa if we would spend the time and money on investing on these underdeveloped nations. We produce enough food to feed ourselves and other nations, and not go hungry ourselves. The economic cost involved in aiding these countries in developing and building an economy where production of food and resources is taken afvantage of, is much too high to interest capitalistic countries like ours to involve themselves in such projects. Even contributions like Unicef etc. don't match the potential that capitalistic and developed countries have to aid these less developed countries.
I would love to say there is a solution to these problems; but honestly I believe that unless the population of developed countries in its entirety became activists and sacrificed their comfort and acted for change, the chances if global change is impossible
I must say this is an interesting topic. Considering that the main issue is linked to poverty, lack of education, lack of infrastructure etc, I think the root of the problem here is much more than that. All of these examples are just consequences of overpopulation which leads to lack of food production as mention in the beginning. I mean, is not that easy to overcome with the ideal solution. I belief that at least in our world, the “perfect place to live where there is neither war nor hunger” everyone wants and fights for, is a fantasy. This has NEVER happened before since the beginnings of times. Therefore my way of thinking of the problem that the people in sub-Saharan Africa face day to day is that as I said before, cannot be resolved completely, but instead with a little help from organizations and richer countries like ours, we can at least prevent malnutrition and analphabetism.
There's too much food in the developed countries, and not enough in the developing countries. Three quarters of the world's population is inadequately fed and the majority of these live in the developing countries. Markets in the developed countries are often too big and produce too much food for a population to consume. Developed countries' agriculture is lacking from unemployment, untreated diseases, food shortage, bad hygiene, lack of doctors, lack of capital, low income, unsuccessful agriculture and the constant threat from the developed world who takes their money away. All these are factors of food shortage in the developed countries. The United Nations try to help but they don't help in the long run. Instead of helping the dying ones they should get the standard of living higher, especially in terms of education. Conclusion ,Special attention has to be paid to the importance of increasing food production and productivity so that food could be made available at reasonable prices for the developing countries. Also, the developing countries must find better ways to import. The developed countries must pursue economic goals without the current levels of inacceptable environmental damage to themselves and other nations.
This is a very important topic that cannot be discussed enough. Population growth far exceeds food production on this planet and mainly in developing countries. I think it is the duty of highly developed nations, like the United States, to help get the resources to those who really need them but for some reason it seems like we are only interested in countries that can benefit us. The governments in these developing nations need to promote the importance of using condoms and they should set up programs that benefit smaller families so that people have less children. I believe that it is everyone's natural right to have food, water, and shelter and unfortunately for millions of people this isn't the case. It just seems like not enough people care and we need to wake up because one day it could be us.
Lack of resources is a primary concern in regions such as suda-Sahara Africa. There is over population and barely any food to be distributed. How this problem to be solved then there are several barriers? Even through barriers of language, education, and culture there are solutions. One is educating the people living in these regions of condoms and family planning. Many of these people have been taught to “be fruitful and multiply” yet this is the very problem with over population! If these people living in regions where there is few resources, they should be taught to minimize the size of their families. Now this is but one example that can solve this issue but that is only in suda-Sahara Africa. The issue also concerns America. America has been taught to save themselves but not the men and women living in other regions. Everyday we hear about people in having fears of losing their homes and we barely hear anyone speaking to help homes outside of America. Where is the empathy? So the solution can begin right at the heart. If people were to become more sympathetic to other countries there would be abundance. America is known for over consuming especially with food. It isn’t in excess nutrients, it is in excess calories. There wouldn’t be much obesity. Our excess resources would be given to the other regions. Now this is easier said than done but if we learn to become aware of the need of others besides ourselves there can finally be a balance to the issue of over population and lack of food.
Education is a powerful instrument in assisting the issue of overpopulation and not having the ability to supply for so large a population. Education can assist in family planning (to educate men and women in the use of contraceptives) and in teaching women to read and write so that their importance does not solely reside on their ability to produce offspring. But there are many barriers in using this approach. Ideally these different forms of education would be easily distributed to different areas of the world, but many questions rise. Where will the resources come from? Who will be sent to teach? And even with education, education alone will not be enough. How will food be provided to all these individuals? It is not a need in food production but an issue in food distribution. While most Americans are suffering from obesity with high rates in diabetes and cardiac problems, in other parts of the world many suffer from malnourishment. Therefore if there are sufficient (if not excessive) amounts of food as well as other resources in the U.S. what is lacking? Is it the lack of funding, organizations, or political assistance? Or could it be something more basic? Could it be that what’s lacking is actually caring, caring so that we feel the need to do something? Apathy seems to be overpowering; their problems are not our problems. Are the majority of American’s caught up with paying their bills, buying more things, and bigger cars that they only assistance we have to offer is an occasionally pity and then we move on? There has to be a drastic change in our paradigm of the world before there can be even some minute change. There are so many problems and I honesty don’t know if we can change them, but it doesn’t mean we should leave them be. By changing our way of thinking perhaps maybe we can work to solve the large separation between the” haves” and the” have nots”.
My view is that technology is increasing faster than the population increase, so the amount of resources needed is decreasing faster than the consumption. If you look at the 150 year prices of commodities, they are going down, even the last 10 years. As long as we can keep innovation up, we will be fine. I am convinced that we have enough resources for the entre world population. Thomas Malthus was the first one who dicovered the natural control measure. The numer of monkeys will be reduced when it was not enough foods. But Now days with the advances we have made we can keep growing in population.
I think the issue with the world population vs. food production has been increasing. I do think that there's more people out there who are starving. I agree with the statement from the post about the sub-Saharan African, each person eats nine times less than what we normally eat in America. Of course it's true, have you notice that the rate of obesity is greater here in America and in Africa, there's a lot of people who don't eat for days. I just think that all of these happens because the lack of education which causes the lack of poor. Some of these people don't the enough education to get a job so they are left without nothing which makes it hard to buy food for themselves. I think everybody needs education so they can continue with their life successful .
Its truly a topic of concern how much the world-wide population is increasing versus the food supply in each of the continents. We often don't think of this issue since here, in the U.S. we see an abundance of food being thrown away daily.
I believe the solution to this problem or part of the solution rests in educating all societies. Educating people in poor countries like Haiti and parts of Africa, for example, are important. Educating women about not having more children than they can care for. We would all have to give up some comfort here to help others as well, but that will never happen. While some places around the world don't have actual rodes, we seem to not have enough, according to our absurd and greedy governors.
The earth will just keep getting more and more crowded. I suggest the U.S starts a system that in order to become pregnant, one must apply first and prove one has the sufficient amount of money for the child growing up. With education comes infrastructure and public health as well.
Economic underdevelopment has many symptoms of which include lack of access to job opportunities, health care, drinkable water, food, education and housing. These symptoms are all over the world. Some people think we should be more like China and limit world population. But when do we as American citizens start to govern and dictate over others. I couldn’t imagine telling people “hey guess what, you can only have one kid”. Maybe by starting to work together as one earth instead of separate countries we could find a way to survive. By each country donating seeds for planting to under developed countries , we can perhaps get some place.
We usually don’t pay much attention to these serious problems going on around world because where we live we might not experience them; however, they exist, and there are a lot of people suffering from them. The uncontrollable growing population, most than in any places, is seen in developing countries. I believe this is because the population is not well educated, so one way to “solve” the problem would be to pay special attention to this part of the world by explaining and educating women on sexual education and not having children if they can’t take care of them (support them). I also believe that donations (money, food, etc) by developed countries would be also an alternative to better the situation.
All the things needed to lessen poverty are the things that aren't available to these people. Education, Contraceptives, Money, Food, and Jobs. For a country to be successful, they have to have virtually all of these components. If women, men as well, are educated then they are most likely to reason when it would be the appropriate time to have a child or if there would ever be that time. Also, education about sex will do good for these people in need. If a woman is taught about this subject when they are younger, when they get older they would have a better understanding of the responsibilities that would be presented to them as a result of a child. After this lesson, it may be a good idea to make contraceptives available to these women not only because it would go hand in hand with the subject at hand but because contraceptives, I can imagine, has prevented many pregnancies. The country will also need some source of income so that they could buy some of the items they need in order to have a nutritious meal so that they will be able to work. In some countries, it would take two or more people to do a one-person job and this lowers productivity so a nutritious meal, not simply food, is essential for an economic raise of these third world countries. So we need the Education and contraceptives, as motivation to following a steady path and not simply acting irrational. We need Money for trade and as pay for employees. We need healthy Food obviously because that's a necessity; we need that to acquire energy so that we can do work. And finally Jobs need to be created so that they can have a consistent flow of revenue. How can all of this happen? I don't have the answer to that question.
Most people in undeveloped countries are a part of a large family. The reason to this is mostly the lack of education they have. In other words they need to be introduced to a better education, education of safe sex, and be explained how decreasing the family members numbers in their society will help them create a better balance between the population and food. I believe one of the main reasons as to why the population has increased and not stopped might be related to their cultures. In their culture they probably feel they need a big family because that is what they value and because they want to have someone to look out for them when they are older. Another reason is that there are no real restrictions placed on them like in china, so they can do this and not be faced with any legal problems. I have also thought that maybe the fact that most people live longer today thanks to our medical advances could play a roll but I feel like this rule simply doesn’t apply to these undeveloped countries. I really do feel that if they were better educated about sex and explained how lowering the number of kids they have would help their food resources availability to the family it would make a difference.
Victor Mustelier It seems ironic that by feeding ourselves we are also helping to kill humanity. Also, if we Americans consume 9 times that of which Sub-Saharan people consume, maybe the problem with food production is not making enough so that everyone gets a piece but rather distributing it well enough so that everyone gets some. Though world hunger is affected by many different factors, I think that we (Large consumption societies) have the most work to do. The reason being is that unlike poor countries, Wealthy countries have the choice of opting to consume or allowing others to use our products (sharing). Therefore, lack of education, bad infrastructure and failing public health all play a huge role in population growth/ hunger but are a bit out of reach from our society. By this I mean that we recognize that those things are flawed and need enhancement but there is only so much I can do to stop the poor infrastructure in a faraway country like Congo. However, by us North Americans having the choice of gluttony or comfort, we have more responsibility and thus more power than those in poor countries. This might not stop world hunger or get humans to stop procreating, but it will be a stepping stone towards lessening these problems.
This topic is really sad, the overpopulation issue and the lack of food are nothing new to us, so it has been happening for decades, and still there are not solutions. The lack of education, infrastructure, and public health access make harder to those poor and overpopulated countries. The only solution I can think of is: when you go to the supermarket buy “organic foods” because are healthy and all natural instead of eating food from pesticides chemicals and you are helping the environment. Also, keep it in mind instead to waste your money in gambling or buying yourself a pair of shoes or tennis shoes monthly. You can use the money and give to the “International Red Cross” so they can have enough funds to help and rescue people in need. We need appreciate how “lucky we are” for living here, but it does not mean we can forget our brothers and sisters in Africa. Europe and America need to take actions in providing help there such as food, clothing, and infrastructure to create jobs for the “unfortunate” people so they can eat decently. Did you realize how much money America and Countries in Europe spend every year to create biological weapons, nuclear weapons, armor, so on…? Just think about it…?
Overpopulation is a critical issue in the global society today, and it seems as though are efforts are not helping the situation. overpopulation is increasing at a constant rate where as food supplies are flat lining. In order to resolve this crisis we first have to rebuild these third world countries from the ground up. Without a sustainable economy no country can prosper, so we must help by restoring the environment. For example, start by building irrigation systems to create a water flow and as a result will cause for crops to grow and increase the supply. In those third world African countries the demand greatly outweighs the supply,so that must be the first problem addressed. We all know that the rate of the overpopulation will not decrease substantially so we must focus are efforts on increasing the supply. In conclusion, this goal is not inevitable but at the same time in order of having the slightest chance at succeeding this must be a group effort from all the countries.
First one would have to do food drafts, and clothes drafts. Then for those who need, they get provided with shelter. For the people that don’t want to be put into a shelter we need to send them to school. Another thing that has to be done is inquire those in the neighborhood to allow one or two people to stay in their home by volunteer. Once in the home, they would be able to stay for as long as the owners of the home would allow or until they find their own way to live. While many may not be able to find a job or a way to provide for themselves, there would be a three month limit on the duration of their stay.
It was very sad to learn that the people in sub-Sahara Africa eat nine times less than we do here in the United States. I think that people have to change their mentality when it comes to food because it does not seem fair that one of our biggest health problems in the United States is obesity when in other countries its starvation. If our plate is overflowing with food why not do something to feed others? We can make it happen. They way we grow and process our food is also very harmful for our environment and it shouldn’t be this way. The earth gives us healthy natural nutrition and I don’t see how we need to poison its generosity with harmful chemicals like nitrogen. Our ancestors never used such chemicals for agriculture and they did just fine. Overpopulation is also a problem when it comes to sub-Sahara Africa and while we cant tell people not to have babies, the use of contraceptives prove to be effective in that department. One way or another we should be grateful that here in America we have our basic needs met like food, clothes, and a roof over our heads. I believe that if all countries unite, something can be done about countries with few resources like Africa. I don’t understand how this is even an issue and why we haven’t done anything about it already.
This is a global issue thats happening because honestly ,most countries mostly help when there is a major catastrophe. After the hype dies from any tragedy, once again countries attend to there own needs. If it was a matter of real significance to the nations that wanted to offer relief, it would have been solved years ago. By simply providing education, employment, and begin to develop in these needy countries, the pivot point of their future can succeed. Without education, there will be an ever growing population, no employment, and consequently these countries will remain underdeveloped. Its pretty sad to see that around the world there are people who stuff their faces and sometimes dont even appreciate a small simple meal, when halfway acroos the world, millions are starving, malnurished, and dying.
Earth can't produce food for the entire world population.However, this population is groqing really fast.In order to nourish everyone, each countries developped their agriculture.The poor countries had abig rate of birth.In order to nourish everyone, the world should produce more food and conserve the extra food they produce.The countries should control the birth rate. If each countries reduce their birth rate, it will be easier to evaluate how many people to nourish All countries should collaborate in order to erase the poverty and to make the world a better place to live.They should create a system which include all countries to help everyone to organize themselves.In that way, their will be no poverty ion the world.Everyone could find the necessary food and everything to live normally
The biggest threat to human civilization is also one which is triggered by our own egotistical desires. Overpopulating the planet, humans have been placing endless strain on the earth and its finite resources.
Most "first world" countries (with the odd exception of the USA) have reached a point where population growth is negative, accounting for the increased education of its residents causing mothers to give birth later in life (to fewer babies). However, one mustn't dismiss "third world" countries as irresponsible freeloaders who exploit population growth for political purposes (humanitarian aid, charity, etc). Such countries are bound to their subsisting lifestyle due to the inadequate distribution of food globally. Such crop deficient nations in Sub-Sahara Africa have low yielding soils which grow barely enough food to pave off death from hunger.
Thomas Robert Malthus, a British economist, argued his position on overpopulation through his editions of An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798-1826). Proposing an exponential growth in human population and a linear growth in food production, Malthus comments that human population is kept in check by means of famine and disease which come about as resources run dry and the earth's carrying capacity is pushed to its limits. Fortunately, technological advances have come to fruition which produce crops on a scale never before imagined. With better farm practices and genetically modified crops (GMOs), farmers have been able to exponentially increase crop yields year after year parallel to population growth.
Although the "green revolution" has made it possible for crop surpluses to feed the whole world, millions of people die every year due to lack of food. How is such an absurdity possible? Even though there are enough crops to feed starving populations in underdeveloped countries, nourishing the poor has no monetary incentive to a huge predatory corporation seeking to maximize profit. Alternatively, millions of surplus crops are destroyed each year or dumped into fragile markets, wiping out domestic crop productivity and exploiting independent farm owners.
Clearly, the issue of overpopulation and food production/consumption is linked in a perverse matter. Underdeveloped nations, struck with artificial poverty due to their inability to compete with global powerhouses in terms of food production, suffer from extremely high infant mortality rates, leading to increased births in hopes of having at least one survivor to continue a family’s legacy. As a result of having so many children, many poor families remain poor as the little money they make is immediately consumed purchasing a fraction of the diet enjoyed by around 20% of the world's population (developed countries). This negative feedback loop of forced poverty and overpopulation must be broken if humans are to resolve the ever increasing hazard of resource depletion which is rendering previously fertile soil to desolate fields of dust.
I have to say, this is not interesting at all, this is actually very sad and hurtful. Here in America, we have this abondancy of food and most of the time we dont appreciate it, we usually throw it away. Here in America the obesity rates go higher than anything. So i must ask myself, are we really worthy of the things we get? Do we really deserve the things we have? i read the article and the thing that alarmed me th most was "That means that a sub-Saharan African each person eats nine times less than what we normally eat in America!" wow, you know that can kill a person, not enough nutrition in their bodies. Which mean more sickness, more deaths. I am very sad to hear this type of things. All i can ask my self is what have this world come to? all i can do is pray to god cause at the rate we are going, not that many good things coming our way. But mostly bless those pleople that all they are concerned with is with wether they will eat that day or not. Here we are being selfish spending money and doing things that are completely materialistic, while thoise poor people suffer for a plate of food! :'(
“A sub-Saharan African each person eats nine times less than what we normally eat in America!” isn’t a surprising fact. Most of the population in America suffers from obesity because there is food everywhere, unhealthy food that is. We eat just to eat, because it’s just so tasty and we can’t say “no” or for other psychological problems. Sub-Saharan African people don’t eat for days because of the lack of food which can be improved with a few changes to their system. Educating as early as the prepubescent years about the female and male anatomy and how the reproductive system works is a good start. As they reach the average age where they typically engage in sexual acts, they should be taught about contraceptives to attempt lowering birth rates which will help control the population. Once the population is somewhat controlled, more jobs should be made available. Any job, it doesn’t matter, as long as it keeps their economy moving. Making more production can help make more jobs for people. Once there are more jobs and more people are employed, there will be more money. Once there is more income, there will be more demand. And once there is more demand, there will be more production. And the cycle continues, therefore helping end poverty and hunger. -Anais Franco
First of all poverty is all around the world but we just speak of Africa, how about other countries as well, however, we see all the time many people helping Africa with water resources, education, food, clothes, etc. Yet I guess there could be recourses but at the other hand some small little providences in Africa they might not have them. Although now we need to educate ourselves as well, simply cause the amount of food we consume. We can help out and export the amount more of what we use to eat to those countries. This is just a one of the step. We don’t need to take food for granted as Americans and over feed ourselves and our children. We must deal with the other issues that are directly related to this problem as well. As for population explosion I don’t think that is going to stop, besides it will bring problems for our future children recourses.
everybody seems to focus in Africa but poverty is around the world, in some countries more than others. I think that poverty is cause by overpopulation ,there is to many people and not many resources, not everybody has a job because there are many people going fot the same position, not everybody has the opportunity of make a career because everybody wants to get into a university and there is not to many vacancies open.i also think that if we are populated is because we havent been well educated, people have many children and they dont think or they dont know the consequences of having many kids in a world where many of our resources are being extinct, the governments should focus more in people education and make them be aware of the big consequences.
I dont think there is a solution so far because we are not talking of educating a small group of people , we are talking about millions , but maybe as long term proyect it may be posible, i only hope it wont be too late. cecilia ramos
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Overpopulation plus the diminishing surplus of food production is a defining issue in underdeveloped countries in this world. In retrospect this concern has not been addressed as well is it could be because of politics and, the fact that developed countries are already preoccupied with their own economies. I have heard of a term none as “The Circle of Poverty” this is the driving force behind underdevelopment. Basically the circle of poverty of a country states that “low/no PRODUCTION = low/no EMPLOYMENT = low/no INCOME = low/no DEMAND = UNBREAKEABLE CIRLE OF POVERTY”. In order to perhaps better the issue for some of these countries is to increase production somehow; so that every other aspect of the circle of poverty can recover and the country become developed.
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all the food that is massively produced in the US could feed all of Africa if we would spend the time and money on investing on these underdeveloped nations. We produce enough food to feed ourselves and other nations, and not go hungry ourselves. The economic cost involved in aiding these countries in developing and building an economy where production of food and resources is taken afvantage of, is much too high to interest capitalistic countries like ours to involve themselves in such projects. Even contributions like Unicef etc. don't match the potential that capitalistic and developed countries have to aid these less developed countries.
I would love to say there is a solution to these problems; but honestly I believe that unless the population of developed countries in its entirety became activists and sacrificed their comfort and acted for change, the chances if global change is impossible
I must say this is an interesting topic. Considering that the main issue is linked to poverty, lack of education, lack of infrastructure etc, I think the root of the problem here is much more than that. All of these examples are just consequences of overpopulation which leads to lack of food production as mention in the beginning. I mean, is not that easy to overcome with the ideal solution. I belief that at least in our world, the “perfect place to live where there is neither war nor hunger” everyone wants and fights for, is a fantasy. This has NEVER happened before since the beginnings of times. Therefore my way of thinking of the problem that the people in sub-Saharan Africa face day to day is that as I said before, cannot be resolved completely, but instead with a little help from organizations and richer countries like ours, we can at least prevent malnutrition and analphabetism.
There's too much food in the developed countries, and not enough in the developing countries. Three quarters of the world's population is inadequately fed and the majority of these live in the developing countries. Markets in the developed countries are often too big and produce too much food for a population to consume. Developed countries' agriculture is lacking from unemployment, untreated diseases, food shortage, bad hygiene, lack of doctors, lack of capital, low income, unsuccessful agriculture and the constant threat from the developed world who takes their money away. All these are factors of food shortage in the developed countries. The United Nations try to help but they don't help in the long run. Instead of helping the dying ones they should get the standard of living higher, especially in terms of education. Conclusion ,Special attention has to be paid to the importance of increasing food production and productivity so that food could be made available at reasonable prices for the developing countries. Also, the developing countries must find better ways to import. The developed countries must pursue economic goals without the current levels of inacceptable environmental damage to themselves and other nations.
This is a very important topic that cannot be discussed enough. Population growth far exceeds food production on this planet and mainly in developing countries. I think it is the duty of highly developed nations, like the United States, to help get the resources to those who really need them but for some reason it seems like we are only interested in countries that can benefit us. The governments in these developing nations need to promote the importance of using condoms and they should set up programs that benefit smaller families so that people have less children. I believe that it is everyone's natural right to have food, water, and shelter and unfortunately for millions of people this isn't the case. It just seems like not enough people care and we need to wake up because one day it could be us.
Lack of resources is a primary concern in regions such as suda-Sahara Africa. There is over population and barely any food to be distributed. How this problem to be solved then there are several barriers? Even through barriers of language, education, and culture there are solutions. One is educating the people living in these regions of condoms and family planning. Many of these people have been taught to “be fruitful and multiply” yet this is the very problem with over population! If these people living in regions where there is few resources, they should be taught to minimize the size of their families. Now this is but one example that can solve this issue but that is only in suda-Sahara Africa. The issue also concerns America. America has been taught to save themselves but not the men and women living in other regions. Everyday we hear about people in having fears of losing their homes and we barely hear anyone speaking to help homes outside of America. Where is the empathy? So the solution can begin right at the heart. If people were to become more sympathetic to other countries there would be abundance. America is known for over consuming especially with food. It isn’t in excess nutrients, it is in excess calories. There wouldn’t be much obesity. Our excess resources would be given to the other regions. Now this is easier said than done but if we learn to become aware of the need of others besides ourselves there can finally be a balance to the issue of over population and lack of food.
Education is a powerful instrument in assisting the issue of overpopulation and not having the ability to supply for so large a population. Education can assist in family planning (to educate men and women in the use of contraceptives) and in teaching women to read and write so that their importance does not solely reside on their ability to produce offspring. But there are many barriers in using this approach. Ideally these different forms of education would be easily distributed to different areas of the world, but many questions rise. Where will the resources come from? Who will be sent to teach? And even with education, education alone will not be enough. How will food be provided to all these individuals? It is not a need in food production but an issue in food distribution. While most Americans are suffering from obesity with high rates in diabetes and cardiac problems, in other parts of the world many suffer from malnourishment. Therefore if there are sufficient (if not excessive) amounts of food as well as other resources in the U.S. what is lacking? Is it the lack of funding, organizations, or political assistance? Or could it be something more basic? Could it be that what’s lacking is actually caring, caring so that we feel the need to do something? Apathy seems to be overpowering; their problems are not our problems. Are the majority of American’s caught up with paying their bills, buying more things, and bigger cars that they only assistance we have to offer is an occasionally pity and then we move on? There has to be a drastic change in our paradigm of the world before there can be even some minute change. There are so many problems and I honesty don’t know if we can change them, but it doesn’t mean we should leave them be. By changing our way of thinking perhaps maybe we can work to solve the large separation between the” haves” and the” have nots”.
My view is that technology is increasing faster than the population increase, so the amount of resources needed is decreasing faster than the consumption. If you look at the 150 year prices of commodities, they are going down, even the last 10 years. As long as we can keep innovation up, we will be fine. I am convinced that we have enough resources for the entre world population. Thomas Malthus was the first one who dicovered the natural control measure. The numer of monkeys will be reduced when it was not enough foods. But Now days with the advances we have made we can keep growing in population.
I think the issue with the world population vs. food production has been increasing. I do think that there's more people out there who are starving. I agree with the statement from the post about the sub-Saharan African, each person eats nine times less than what we normally eat in America. Of course it's true, have you notice that the rate of obesity is greater here in America and in Africa, there's a lot of people who don't eat for days. I just think that all of these happens because the lack of education which causes the lack of poor. Some of these people don't the enough education to get a job so they are left without nothing which makes it hard to buy food for themselves. I think everybody needs education so they can continue with their life successful .
Its truly a topic of concern how much the world-wide population is increasing versus the food supply in each of the continents. We often don't think of this issue since here, in the U.S. we see an abundance of food being thrown away daily.
I believe the solution to this problem or part of the solution rests in educating all societies. Educating people in poor countries like Haiti and parts of Africa, for example, are important. Educating women about not having more children than they can care for. We would all have to give up some comfort here to help others as well, but that will never happen. While some places around the world don't have actual rodes, we seem to not have enough, according to our absurd and greedy governors.
The earth will just keep getting more and more crowded. I suggest the U.S starts a system that in order to become pregnant, one must apply first and prove one has the sufficient amount of money for the child growing up. With education comes infrastructure and public health as well.
Economic underdevelopment has many symptoms of which include lack of access to job opportunities, health care, drinkable water, food, education and housing. These symptoms are all over the world. Some people think we should be more like China and limit world population. But when do we as American citizens start to govern and dictate over others. I couldn’t imagine telling people “hey guess what, you can only have one kid”. Maybe by starting to work together as one earth instead of separate countries we could find a way to survive. By each country donating seeds for planting to under developed countries , we can perhaps get some place.
We usually don’t pay much attention to these serious problems going on around world because where we live we might not experience them; however, they exist, and there are a lot of people suffering from them. The uncontrollable growing population, most than in any places, is seen in developing countries. I believe this is because the population is not well educated, so one way to “solve” the problem would be to pay special attention to this part of the world by explaining and educating women on sexual education and not having children if they can’t take care of them (support them). I also believe that donations (money, food, etc) by developed countries would be also an alternative to better the situation.
Maureen Auguste
All the things needed to lessen poverty are the things that aren't available to these people. Education, Contraceptives, Money, Food, and Jobs. For a country to be successful, they have to have virtually all of these components. If women, men as well, are educated then they are most likely to reason when it would be the appropriate time to have a child or if there would ever be that time. Also, education about sex will do good for these people in need. If a woman is taught about this subject when they are younger, when they get older they would have a better understanding of the responsibilities that would be presented to them as a result of a child. After this lesson, it may be a good idea to make contraceptives available to these women not only because it would go hand in hand with the subject at hand but because contraceptives, I can imagine, has prevented many pregnancies. The country will also need some source of income so that they could buy some of the items they need in order to have a nutritious meal so that they will be able to work. In some countries, it would take two or more people to do a one-person job and this lowers productivity so a nutritious meal, not simply food, is essential for an economic raise of these third world countries. So we need the Education and contraceptives, as motivation to following a steady path and not simply acting irrational. We need Money for trade and as pay for employees. We need healthy Food obviously because that's a necessity; we need that to acquire energy so that we can do work. And finally Jobs need to be created so that they can have a consistent flow of revenue. How can all of this happen? I don't have the answer to that question.
Most people in undeveloped countries are a part of a large family. The reason to this is mostly the lack of education they have. In other words they need to be introduced to a better education, education of safe sex, and be explained how decreasing the family members numbers in their society will help them create a better balance between the population and food. I believe one of the main reasons as to why the population has increased and not stopped might be related to their cultures. In their culture they probably feel they need a big family because that is what they value and because they want to have someone to look out for them when they are older. Another reason is that there are no real restrictions placed on them like in china, so they can do this and not be faced with any legal problems. I have also thought that maybe the fact that most people live longer today thanks to our medical advances could play a roll but I feel like this rule simply doesn’t apply to these undeveloped countries. I really do feel that if they were better educated about sex and explained how lowering the number of kids they have would help their food resources availability to the family it would make a difference.
Victor Mustelier
It seems ironic that by feeding ourselves we are also helping to kill humanity. Also, if we Americans consume 9 times that of which Sub-Saharan people consume, maybe the problem with food production is not making enough so that everyone gets a piece but rather distributing it well enough so that everyone gets some. Though world hunger is affected by many different factors, I think that we (Large consumption societies) have the most work to do. The reason being is that unlike poor countries, Wealthy countries have the choice of opting to consume or allowing others to use our products (sharing).
Therefore, lack of education, bad infrastructure and failing public health all play a huge role in population growth/ hunger but are a bit out of reach from our society. By this I mean that we recognize that those things are flawed and need enhancement but there is only so much I can do to stop the poor infrastructure in a faraway country like Congo. However, by us North Americans having the choice of gluttony or comfort, we have more responsibility and thus more power than those in poor countries.
This might not stop world hunger or get humans to stop procreating, but it will be a stepping stone towards lessening these problems.
This topic is really sad, the overpopulation issue and the lack of food are nothing new to us, so it has been happening for decades, and still there are not solutions. The lack of education, infrastructure, and public health access make harder to those poor and overpopulated countries. The only solution I can think of is: when you go to the supermarket buy “organic foods” because are healthy and all natural instead of eating food from pesticides chemicals and you are helping the environment.
Also, keep it in mind instead to waste your money in gambling or buying yourself a pair of shoes or tennis shoes monthly. You can use the money and give to the “International Red Cross” so they can have enough funds to help and rescue people in need. We need appreciate how “lucky we are” for living here, but it does not mean we can forget our brothers and sisters in Africa. Europe and America need to take actions in providing help there such as food, clothing, and infrastructure to create jobs for the “unfortunate” people so they can eat decently. Did you realize how much money America and Countries in Europe spend every year to create biological weapons, nuclear weapons, armor, so on…?
Just think about it…?
Overpopulation is a critical issue in the global society today, and it seems as though are efforts are not helping the situation. overpopulation is increasing at a constant rate where as food supplies are flat lining. In order to resolve this crisis we first have to rebuild these third world countries from the ground up. Without a sustainable economy no country can prosper, so we must help by restoring the environment. For example, start by building irrigation systems to create a water flow and as a result will cause for crops to grow and increase the supply. In those third world African countries the demand greatly outweighs the supply,so that must be the first problem addressed. We all know that the rate of the overpopulation will not decrease substantially so we must focus are efforts on increasing the supply. In conclusion, this goal is not inevitable but at the same time in order of having the slightest chance at succeeding this must be a group effort from all the countries.
First one would have to do food drafts, and clothes drafts. Then for those who need, they get provided with shelter. For the people that don’t want to be put into a shelter we need to send them to school. Another thing that has to be done is inquire those in the neighborhood to allow one or two people to stay in their home by volunteer. Once in the home, they would be able to stay for as long as the owners of the home would allow or until they find their own way to live. While many may not be able to find a job or a way to provide for themselves, there would be a three month limit on the duration of their stay.
MARIE DUVERGER
It was very sad to learn that the people in sub-Sahara Africa eat nine times less than we do here in the United States. I think that people have to change their mentality when it comes to food because it does not seem fair that one of our biggest health problems in the United States is obesity when in other countries its starvation. If our plate is overflowing with food why not do something to feed others? We can make it happen. They way we grow and process our food is also very harmful for our environment and it shouldn’t be this way. The earth gives us healthy natural nutrition and I don’t see how we need to poison its generosity with harmful chemicals like nitrogen. Our ancestors never used such chemicals for agriculture and they did just fine. Overpopulation is also a problem when it comes to sub-Sahara Africa and while we cant tell people not to have babies, the use of contraceptives prove to be effective in that department. One way or another we should be grateful that here in America we have our basic needs met like food, clothes, and a roof over our heads. I believe that if all countries unite, something can be done about countries with few resources like Africa. I don’t understand how this is even an issue and why we haven’t done anything about it already.
This is a global issue thats happening because honestly ,most countries mostly help when there is a major catastrophe. After the hype dies from any tragedy, once again countries attend to there own needs. If it was a matter of real significance to the nations that wanted to offer relief, it would have been solved years ago. By simply providing education, employment, and begin to develop in these needy countries, the pivot point of their future can succeed. Without education, there will be an ever growing population, no employment, and consequently these countries will remain underdeveloped. Its pretty sad to see that around the world there are people who stuff their faces and sometimes dont even appreciate a small simple meal, when halfway acroos the world, millions are starving, malnurished, and dying.
-Angel Arboleda
Earth can't produce food for the entire world population.However, this population is groqing really fast.In order to nourish everyone, each countries developped their agriculture.The poor countries had abig rate of birth.In order to nourish everyone, the world should produce more food and conserve the extra food they produce.The countries should control the birth rate. If each countries reduce their birth rate, it will be easier to evaluate how many people to nourish
All countries should collaborate in order to erase the poverty and to make the world a better place to live.They should create a system which include all countries to help everyone to organize themselves.In that way, their will be no poverty ion the world.Everyone could find the necessary food and everything to live normally
The biggest threat to human civilization is also one which is triggered by our own egotistical desires. Overpopulating the planet, humans have been placing endless strain on the earth and its finite resources.
Most "first world" countries (with the odd exception of the USA) have reached a point where population growth is negative, accounting for the increased education of its residents causing mothers to give birth later in life (to fewer babies). However, one mustn't dismiss "third world" countries as irresponsible freeloaders who exploit population growth for political purposes (humanitarian aid, charity, etc). Such countries are bound to their subsisting lifestyle due to the inadequate distribution of food globally. Such crop deficient nations in Sub-Sahara Africa have low yielding soils which grow barely enough food to pave off death from hunger.
Thomas Robert Malthus, a British economist, argued his position on overpopulation through his editions of An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798-1826). Proposing an exponential growth in human population and a linear growth in food production, Malthus comments that human population is kept in check by means of famine and disease which come about as resources run dry and the earth's carrying capacity is pushed to its limits. Fortunately, technological advances have come to fruition which produce crops on a scale never before imagined. With better farm practices and genetically modified crops (GMOs), farmers have been able to exponentially increase crop yields year after year parallel to population growth.
Although the "green revolution" has made it possible for crop surpluses to feed the whole world, millions of people die every year due to lack of food. How is such an absurdity possible? Even though there are enough crops to feed starving populations in underdeveloped countries, nourishing the poor has no monetary incentive to a huge predatory corporation seeking to maximize profit. Alternatively, millions of surplus crops are destroyed each year or dumped into fragile markets, wiping out domestic crop productivity and exploiting independent farm owners.
Clearly, the issue of overpopulation and food production/consumption is linked in a perverse matter. Underdeveloped nations, struck with artificial poverty due to their inability to compete with global powerhouses in terms of food production, suffer from extremely high infant mortality rates, leading to increased births in hopes of having at least one survivor to continue a family’s legacy. As a result of having so many children, many poor families remain poor as the little money they make is immediately consumed purchasing a fraction of the diet enjoyed by around 20% of the world's population (developed countries). This negative feedback loop of forced poverty and overpopulation must be broken if humans are to resolve the ever increasing hazard of resource depletion which is rendering previously fertile soil to desolate fields of dust.
ALFREDO GONZALEZ...
I have to say, this is not interesting at all, this is actually very sad and hurtful. Here in America, we have this abondancy of food and most of the time we dont appreciate it, we usually throw it away. Here in America the obesity rates go higher than anything. So i must ask myself, are we really worthy of the things we get? Do we really deserve the things we have? i read the article and the thing that alarmed me th most was "That means that a sub-Saharan African each person eats nine times less than what we normally eat in America!" wow, you know that can kill a person, not enough nutrition in their bodies. Which mean more sickness, more deaths. I am very sad to hear this type of things. All i can ask my self is what have this world come to? all i can do is pray to god cause at the rate we are going, not that many good things coming our way. But mostly bless those pleople that all they are concerned with is with wether they will eat that day or not. Here we are being selfish spending money and doing things that are completely materialistic, while thoise poor people suffer for a plate of food! :'(
ALFREDO GONZALEZ MWF 9.00 AM
“A sub-Saharan African each person eats nine times less than what we normally eat in America!” isn’t a surprising fact. Most of the population in America suffers from obesity because there is food everywhere, unhealthy food that is. We eat just to eat, because it’s just so tasty and we can’t say “no” or for other psychological problems. Sub-Saharan African people don’t eat for days because of the lack of food which can be improved with a few changes to their system. Educating as early as the prepubescent years about the female and male anatomy and how the reproductive system works is a good start. As they reach the average age where they typically engage in sexual acts, they should be taught about contraceptives to attempt lowering birth rates which will help control the population. Once the population is somewhat controlled, more jobs should be made available. Any job, it doesn’t matter, as long as it keeps their economy moving. Making more production can help make more jobs for people. Once there are more jobs and more people are employed, there will be more money. Once there is more income, there will be more demand. And once there is more demand, there will be more production. And the cycle continues, therefore helping end poverty and hunger.
-Anais Franco
First of all poverty is all around the world but we just speak of Africa, how about other countries as well, however, we see all the time many people helping Africa with water resources, education, food, clothes, etc. Yet I guess there could be recourses but at the other hand some small little providences in Africa they might not have them. Although now we need to educate ourselves as well, simply cause the amount of food we consume. We can help out and export the amount more of what we use to eat to those countries. This is just a one of the step. We don’t need to take food for granted as Americans and over feed ourselves and our children. We must deal with the other issues that are directly related to this problem as well. As for population explosion I don’t think that is going to stop, besides it will bring problems for our future children recourses.
everybody seems to focus in Africa but poverty is around the world, in some countries more than others. I think that poverty is cause by overpopulation ,there is to many people and not many resources, not everybody has a job because there are many people going fot the same position, not everybody has the opportunity of make a career because everybody wants to get into a university and there is not to many vacancies open.i also think that if we are populated is because we havent been well educated, people have many children and they dont think or they dont know the consequences of having many kids in a world where many of our resources are being extinct, the governments should focus more in people education and make them be aware of the big consequences.
I dont think there is a solution so far because we are not talking of educating a small group of people , we are talking about millions , but maybe as long term proyect it may be posible, i only hope it wont be too late.
cecilia ramos
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