Population+Connection

=Population Connections=

By 2050 the population is estimated to grow as much as 10.1 billion or as low as 9 billion. Implementing zero population growth could lead to increased biodiversity, poverty reduction, and decrease in population. Zero population growth would allow less competition for food and water as there would be enough resources for the population. The limitations of implementing zero population growth would be the uneven age distribution and the slow economy caused by it. The government would have to figure out how to implement a limited child policy and the cost of raising a child would increase. The zero population growth project is a steady process and the environment needs to be sustained now. (SK)

The Earth currently contains 7.53 billion people and is considered to be overpopulated. Our population is growing rapidly on Earth and Earth doesn't have enough space or resources to support our ever growing population. One way to help prevent humans from exhausting all of our resources is zero population growth. Zero population growth is a condition of demographic balance where the number of people in a specified population neither grows or declines. This would help us control the amount of resources that we have on Earth and can help us prevent ourselves from completely taking over all of Earth's available space and invading ecosystems of other organisms. Zero population growth can help prevent extinction of other organisms as well, as we would not have to invade other animals natural habitats and force them out. This can also help lower competition for food, water, and housing. On the other hand, zero population growth can limit genetic diversity. If the human population doesn't have enough genetic diversity, then we are more susceptible to disease and are more likely to be killed off. With a lack of diversity we are more likely to die from various diseases and be wiped out as we would all be so genetically similar. (SAR)

 One benefit of population connection is that it stabilizes the world's population so that it´s at a level that could be sustained by Earth's resources. The Earth can only support so many living things so if the population continues to grow exponentially, the planet will not be able to keep up with that growth. Global population is projected to hit 8 billion by 2024. If the population continues to grow, global environmental crises, food and water shortages, and entrenched poverty will continue unabated. Therefore, population connection wants to provide people around the world, especially women, with modern contraception and sex education. Since 214 million women want to prevent pregnancy, giving them access to this will hopefully decrease population growth.  One limit of population connection is that many people aren’t in support of population connection. Many family planning programs are at the risk of being defunded. There is also the Global Gag Rule which stops family planning providers from discussing the option of abortion. If many of these programs are being defunded and the few that are left can only speak about certain things, then it would be difficult to help enough people in order to make a significant decrease in population growth. Also, even if one tries to provide contraception to every person in the world, one can’t be sure that they will use it. It is not guaranteed that the people who accept the help will outweigh those who don’t. (SA R (period 9))

Zero Population Growth

The benefits of Zero Population Growth are that the Earth’s resources can be reserved, there will be less damage done to the environment, and the thought of overpopulation will not be a problem anymore. If couples were limited to only having two children, that would assist in keeping the population from growing and will reduce overpopulation. Also, if families are limited to only having two children, there ultimately should reduce or even dissolve the high numbers of children in the foster care system as well as there won’t be hundreds of thousands of children put up for adoption anymore. If there are less people on the planet, the rates of poverty should be extremely low or ever disappear. The economy would overall be in a better place if there was Zero Population Growth. There would also be less pollution produced that could have end up on land, in the oceans, and in the air. The economy will also have a chance to be improved if Zero Population Growth was implemented.

The limitations that Zero Population Growth faces is that it is difficult to keep the population numbers from dropping too low. Things like natural disasters and spreading disease happen all of the time are sometimes impossible to prevent. If a large natural disaster occurs that wipes out a large percentage of the already small population, it would be extremely difficult to rebuild the population. Also, Zero Population Growth would be continually interfering with the reproductive rights of women by telling them they are only allowed to have up to two children. IF people decide to not follow “the rules” of Zero Population Growth, then that imposes the problem of what will happen if the numbers of the population increase too much or drop too low, and how will we resolve this issue effectively. (MSC)

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