Projecting the World Population

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Projecting the World Population

No one knows what the world’s population will be in the future, but the United Nations gives three projections: high, medium, and low. Explain how each of these projections would affect your immediate community. How would these population changes affect the way you currently live your life?

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Projecting the World Population
No one knows what the world’s population will be in the future, but the United Nations
gives three projections: high, medium, and low. Explain how each of these projections
would affect your immediate community. How would these population changes affect the
way you currently live your life?

Population in this context refers to a collection of humans and their entire race occupying the
earth.

a) High population projections would cause the following:
Depletion of natural resources:
The Earth can only produce a limited amount of water and food to support people, animals and
plants, which is falling short of the current needs. Increase in human population in my
community would cause more cutting down of trees in forests, hunting wildlife for food and
illegal trade, causing high environmental pollution and creating hostilities
Degradation of our environment:
The increased dependence and overuse of coal, oil and natural gas for transportation and sources
of fuel at homes will produce serious effects on our environment like soil, air and water
pollution. Rise in the number of vehicles and industries have will badly affect the quality of air.
The rise in amount of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere will leads to global warming and
changing climate patterns like excessive rainfall and prolonged drought.
High cost of living:
A very big difference between demand and supply continues to expand due to overpopulation in
my community and this may in turn raise the prices of various commodities including food,
shelter and healthcare. This means that people will be forced to pay more to survive and feed
their families.
High cases of conflicts and wars:
Overpopulation in our community will put a major strain on the resources it should be utilizing
for development. Conflicts over water sources like rivers and dams could result in conflicts. High
population will cause more diseases to spread and makes them harder to control. Starvation is a
huge issue facing the world and the mortality rate for children is being fuelled by it.

High levels of Poverty
This stands out to be the biggest challenge in my community we see when ...


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