Death decreases the population but killing people and not caring about the people being killed is immoral and inhumane. Poisoning people and wishing for a big natural calamity isn’t the way to go. When we think of death we only think the direct impact of death on the change in population but miss out the psychological aspect of it. In developed countries there isn’t a problem but in developing countries even death leads to an increase in population. When there is a high infant mortality rate and spread of diseases then people think that all of them won’t survive so they have to give birth to many then only few will be left and in some cases it doest work out the way it was supposed to, leading to an increase as a whole.
Another factor affecting the population is migration but it doesn’t affect the world population just the distribution of the population. Controlling it is also important as imbalance in the distribution can lead to many social, economic and environmental problems. Let’s take Nepal for instance; the distribution of people is not even. People are congested in the cities and the Terai part hiking the prices of land there and putting pressure on the lands there. International migration is also creating a lot of problem such as brain drain and uneven distribution of skilled man power. The developed countries are attracting and pulling the skilled labor force. Another type of migration stirring a lot of controversy and given rise to obstruction in development is the refugee crisis. Refugees are unwanted by many countries as they think it’s not their problem but it actually is. It’s the whole world’s problem. The refugee’s should be distributed then concentrated in a country as the load per country will also decrease and at the same time the refugee has something to call home.
There is no doubt that the population needs to be controlled and by various ways this can be made possible. We see that mainly the rapid population growth is seen in the rural parts of the world and this is mainly because of lack of awareness so the first step is to educate people about environment and population. Within this they need to learn about contraceptives. Also the women of these rural parts need to be uplifted so that their interest isn’t just on making a family. So the government has to play the lead role in helping to make a success in this massive movement.
Not only has the growth, the ratio between males and females needs to be also controlled. Similarly the ratio of the dependent and independent population need to be watched as the imbalance can lead to an economic failure within the country. If the dependent population is high then the government will have a hard time supporting its people whereas if the independent population is high then there will be unemployment.
If the population isn’t managed properly then many problems will arise specially regarding the environment. Already there is a lot of pressure on mother earth and the resource which are the base of human civilization are depleting at an alarming rate. With the increasing population the people are having to face shortage of water like in Nepal, shortage and increasing price of food which is mostly all over except in Europe and the hiking prices of petroleum prices all over the world is creating a lot of problem for all. The fertility of the soil is also declining making it difficult to grow food and turning cultivable land into deserts. The rates of crime and violence also will increase as the day to day survival will get tougher and level of competition gets higher and higher.
Ignoring such an issue now can craft an even worse problem in the years to come, so the government has to work on getting to the core of the problem and help solve it before it get worse. So even if the population needs to be increased decreased or redistributed it needs to be done as soon as possible.
