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OVERPOPULATION
By: Cameron Mills
Is overpopulation a big deal?
oYes, because we exceeded our carrying capacity by 6 million people.
oWe use up more resources than we should.oWe don’t have enough room for this many
people.
There are so many people around the world
Our population is steadily increasing.
• This is just a little bit of the trash that we leave behind.
All the trash left behind from us hurts all of our ecosystems.
• Every day that our population goes up our resources go down.
• Every year 74million new people join our population.
• Every day thousands of babies are born.• By 2025 our population is estimated to be 10
billion people in the world.
If everyone had the One Child Policy this would help sustain our population.
Fossil fuels • Fossil fuels take thousands of years to make so they go away
faster than they come back.• 80% of our energy comes from fossil fuels.• Powers many types of transportation.• Also used for stoves,furnances, and other products.• If we do not slow down on the use of fossil fuels we might just
run out of them.
Fossil fuels• The extraction of fossil fuels hurts us tremendously.• Some areas have become more prone to earthquakes
due to excavation of those areas in search of fuels.• We need to invent other products that do not need fossil
fuels to run.• This will help with over use on fossil fuels.
Ways to help reduce the use of fossil fuels.• Solar power• Electric cars• Recycle all of your products• Catch a ride with someone else some
times.
• Forty percent of planets land is devoted to human food production.
• Fifty percent of the planets land mass has been transformed for human use.
If everyone would use birth control and condoms properly it would help slow down our population.
Animal overpopulation also is a big deal.
Humans use more energy than they need to.
Few facts• Global carbon dioxide emissions have quadrupled since
1950, from excavating and burning of fossil fuels.• Greenhouse gas causes global warming and disruption
in weather patterns.
This is what our earth will look like if we do not slow down on our population
Works Cited• “Does population growth pose threats to humanity
environmental science essay.”• “Does population growth threaten humanity.”• “Human Population Crisis.”