Population Growth

Population growth

How did growing population come to exist? Population growth has been the Earth’s problem for a long time. It is making issues like food supply, energy resources, and water quality. Since people face challenges, some countries are trying hard to stop the fast growing population, like South Korea and Bangladesh.

“A too successful population policy” For example in South Korea has an aging population. Beginning in 1962, the government instituted several programs encouraging people to have fewer children. It was too successful. Today, South Korea has one of the lowest birth rates among the world’s 30 most developed countries. It cause the economy to slow down, because there are few people who can work for the country.

“Growing population in a shrinking space” Bangladesh has many large rivers. The people, who live on the islands or shores, have to move to another place if the rivers flood. Then it will make Bangladesh a very crowded place. Overcrowded cities, with their factories use the country’s rivers as open sewers, putting chemicals, medical waste, human sewage and other trash into the water. Many people in Bangladesh depend on the country’s rivers, but many of these essential waterways are dying up by human construction and pollution. Feeding a hungry world The experts of the world are concerned about how the earth can provide enough food for so many people. One of the scientists named Glover’s has an idea to replace annual food crops, such as corn and wheat, with their perennial cousins. Annuals need large amounts of fertilizer, which pollute the environment. I think a possible solution is to make new policy such as two-child policy. I think one-child policy will make the problems like Korea is having now. The government can provide more money and food to people who follows two-child policy. And growing annual plants would be a great idea, because with less pollution, we can provide a food.