Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Population Explosion




The world’s human population is growing rapidly. Every day about 230,000 babies were born, adding to more than six billion of us who already inhabit the planet. Every second the population of world is growing.
Children are important for the future but the growing population can damage the habitats. More and more of the underdeveloped areas were being cleared to provide people with food, resources and places to live in.
The advances in the medicine in the last decades have become the reason for the population explosion due to which people live longer.
Yet in the poor countries proper medical care is not always available and many infants die. Families on these areas rely on having many members to bring in money or to farm the land, because the survival is uncertain, women have more children in case some die.
In such a case families get poorer as they struggle to feed all their children, as the poverty grows they are forced to clear wild habitats in order to farm.
The expansion of urban areas has been particularly rapid in poor countries as people move from countryside to the city to look for the work. Often they cannot find jobs and end up in poverty-stricken shanty towns which grow up around the edges of the cities.
In this way urban areas spread into the wild land causing the rapid explosion of the population in the world. So, it is to be controlled in time to save the Earth from this rapid fire, which may destroy this world if this trend continues for a centuries.

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