How does human overpopulation effect the environment??
The more humans there are, the more resources we use. We need farmlands and grasslands to feed us, we pollute the air and water and we are spreading over the Earth and crowding out the other species (every time we develop land for farming and living space and businesses, we take land from something ‘wild’) Now eventually, we are going to do this to a point when the competition for resources is going to stop our population growth (this goes for any population, not just humans). Population growth experts predict that the number of births will equal the number of deaths in the next 30-40 years. This is because people will be dying of disease, starvation and thirst as fast as we can create new people. It is all a living space issue. As we deplete the resources, we put stress on the environment. We will one day get to the point where we HAVE to be environmentally responsible just to survive. Otherwise, we will die out and another species may evolve to dominate the planet.
