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TAMER ŞENER
YEŞİM TEKİN
ING 102 CRN10284
NOVEMBER 7, 2012
WHY OVERPOPULATİON OCCURS
Overpopulation is on the top of the world’s the biggest problems list; even if it is not, it will be. Nasif Nahle states in the article of Overpopulation, every year, more than 81 million people are added to the world-wide population (2003). That means, approximately 1 billion citizens are added to the world-wide population every 10 years, and world’s human population is greatly increasing. This increase mostly affects people in terms ofdeprivation of education and nourishment. Whatever the effects may be, medical improvements, illiteracy, and accessing food easily give rise to overpopulation.
As mankind is advanced in many area of science, they are advanced in medical area also. Medical advancements are allowed people to cure diseases which could kill people or make them permanently harmed. Owing to medical advancements, deathly illnesses, like polio or pneumonia which were not be cured 100 years ago, can be prevented or cured with improved medicines. As a result of this progress in medical area, death rates in the world have reduced. According to Carolyn Kinder, until now, in the amount of so much children people have a lot of them died before they reach the age of 5 (2012). It can be understood from that, due to medical improvements infant mortality rate is rare. Moreover, progression in medical brings about rise in the birth rate. Abortion used to be a major problem for pregnant in addition it was hard to prevent it. But now, owing to modern methods in medicine, pregnancies are safer for baby and mother. Even if, mother had been cured once, it is possible for her to get pregnant again. Furthermore, scientists have conquered diseases. People have learned a lot about how to feed young children and adults. In the article of “The Population Explosion: Causes and Consequences”, Carolyn Kinder states that, in the late 80s, a baby born in Iceland was 32 times more likely to live to the age of one year as a baby born in Afghanistan(2012). The reason of this situation is difference in nutrition. Because people learned about nutrition more, difference between countries’ baby death rate reduced. Vaccinations are also a great factor for preventing sicknesses. Since 1800s, scientist advanced using vaccinations and by doing this prevented most of diseases like influenza, smallpox, and rubella. Now, such advancement is allows scientists to generate new vaccinations in order to prohibit even simple diseases like flu.
