Overpopulation Crisis

        The Fraser Institute claims that “For decades, environmentalists have predicted that the planet is doomed to run out of food, energy and space as a result of an overpopulation crisis… [however], lack of space is an imagined crisis.” They present facts that the world’s food population is increasing faster than the population. While this fact is true, they are trying to convince the reader that there is no overpopulation crisis. Rather, they state that the world’s population could move into the state of Texas, and the population density per square mile would be 20, 705, roughly the same as the current population of Paris or Toronto. This is just a novel fact that clouds the reader’s mind to further sway them from the truth.

        The Fraser Institute is an independent non-profit research and educational organization that measures and studies the impact of competitive markets and government interventions on individuals and society (http://www.fraserinstitute.org/). Critics of the Institute and other similar agenda-driven think tanks have claimed the Fraser Institute’s reports, studies and surveys are usually not subject to standard academic peer review or the scholarly method (CBC, 2004). The Fraser Institute has a history of attracting high profile people such as the former Ontario Premier Mike Harris and Reform party founder Preston Manning (CBC, 2004). There are those who say the organization’s birth in 1974 was not completely benign. Michael Walker, an economist, helped set up the institute after he received financial backing from forestry giant MacMillan-Bloedel Limited, largely to counter British Columbia’s NDP government (CBC, 2004). The Fraser Institute has as its objective the redirection of public attention to the role of competitive markets (CBC, 2004). These information supports evidences that The Fraser Institute has a political ties, and therefore could reciprocate they may have a political agenda.

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        Overpopulation is a condition where an organism’s numbers exceed the carrying capacity of its habitat (Dice, 1957). In this particular instance, the term refers to the relationship between the human population and its environment, Earth. Overpopulation is not a function of the size or density of the population (Dice, 1957). Overpopulation is determined by using the ratio of population to available sustainable resources (Sample, 2007). This creates am interesting debate as, The Fraser Institute states, “if the world’s entire population moved to the state of Texas, the population density per square mile would be 20, 705.” The Fraser Institute fails ...

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