Can China Overcome Its Population and Pollution?
Through much if its troubled past, China has come a long way and has become an improved country. Though the years, China greatest problem was in their mass population. Many problems in China stem from the population problem, energy has now become a threat as China becomes more and more technologically advanced as well as more industrialized. However, China is working very hard to achieve sustainability. Sustainability is achieved through many aspects of a country’s economy and society. Population, wealth distribution and hunger (along with many other factors) are what prove if a country is sustainable or adequate to live in. Overpopulation.com tells us that overpopulation has been a major problem in China. In 1979, they adopted a “one-child policy” in order to help solve this problem. China was able to enforce this policy because they are a communist nation. Although this policy has not shown a great decrease in population, it has in fact kept China’s population fairly the same over th
