Why Is World. Population Growth Important?
There were three billion people in the world in 1960. This number doubled to 6 billion in 1999. The number is expected to reach 9-10 billion by 2050. Over 95% of the population growth is in developed countries. Although over half of the world’s population lives at basic subsistenence level, consuming little, the sheer numbers of people are causing a depletion of regional resources that lead to poverty, illiteracy, disease, malnutrition and starvation. Consideration of the survival of wildlife and bioversity drops to a low priority in the interest of survival. However, population growth is not slowed down, but rather increased by poverty, illiteracy, disease, or malnutrition, at least until long after the environment is destroyed and the infrastructure of the region is in shambles. Today roughly half the world’s population of nearly 6.2 billion “suffers with water services inferior to those available to the ancient Greeks and Romans.” These impacts alone suggest that, if we care about t
