Jobelle CABONCE Georgie Faye TUPAZ

HUMAN POPULATION EXPLOSION

 HUMAN POPULATION
Refers to the number of
people living in a particular
area, from a village to the
A secondary meaning of
world as a whole.
population is the inhabitants
themselves, but in most uses,
population means numbers.
 OVERPOPULATION

The state of the population “when there are more

people than can live on the earth in comfort,
happiness, and health and still leave the world
a fit place for future generations.”
– George Morris
an expert in environmental health and
an Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter
 Notes
LEXICAL DEFINITION:
– Overpopulation occurs when a species'
population exceeds the carrying capacity of its
ecological niche. It can result from an increase in
births (fertility rate), a decline in the mortality rate,
an increase in immigration, or an unsustainable
biome and depletion of resources.
 TOP TEN COUNTRIES WITH THE HIGHEST POPULATION
2000 2018 Growth % Pop 2050
# Country
Population Population 2000 - 2018 Expected Pop.

1 China 1,268,301,605 1,415,045,928 11.6 % 1,301,627,048

2 India 1,006,300,297 1,354,051,854 34.6 % 1,656,553,632

3 United States 282,162,411 326,766,748 15.8 % 398,328,349

4 Indonesia 214,090,575 266,794,980 24.6 % 300,183,166

5 Brazil 174,315,386 210,867,954 21.0 % 232,304,177

6 Pakistan 152,429,036 200,813,818 31.7 % 290,847,790

7 Nigeria 123,945,463 195,875,237 58.0 % 391,296,754

8 Bangladesh 128,734,672 166,368,149 29.2 % 193,092,763

9 Russia 147,053,966 143,964,709 - 2.1 % 129,908,086

10 Mexico 99,775,434 130,759,074 31.1 % 150,567,503

Courtesy: Internet World Stats, April 2018
 A measure of the
In other words, the
number of organisms
number of people
that make up a
relative to the space
population in a occupied by them.
defined area.

POPULATION
DENSITY
 Notes
• However, population density is not an adequate
measure of overpopulation, since countries with
advanced economies, like the Netherlands or Hong
Kong, can support an extremely dense population.
Whether a country is overpopulated or not
depends on its…
 Population Growth Rate

FACTORS Standard of Living

Lifestyle
Culture
Available Technology
Resources
Economy
and others
 Notes
• The earth’s population in 1800 was 1 billion, having
taken all of human history to reach that mark. Only
more than 2 centuries later, the global population is
7.4 billion. The impact that this population explosion
has had on the environment has been just as
striking, as seen by changes in greenhouse gas
emissions, rates of soil erosion, and the extinction of
species.
IMPACT OF POPULATION EXPLOSION
ON THE ENVIRONMENT
LAND/SOIL
DEGRADATION
 Notes
• The land serves as storage for water and nutrients
required for plants and other living micro-macro-
organisms. The demand for food, energy and other
human requirements depends upon the preservation
and improvement of the productivity of land. The loss of
arable land has been caused by a number of factors,
many or most of which are tied to human development.
The primary causes are deforestation, overexploitation
for fuelwood, overgrazing, agricultural activities and
industrialization.
DEFORESTATION
 Notes
• As the population grows, more and more forests are
cleared. The two most common reasons for
deforestation are to make houses for increased
number of people to live in, and to use wood as a
fuel in the industries.
POLLUTION
 Notes
• The trees that help us in reducing the air pollution
through the process of photosynthesis are not able to do
so any more. Air pollution is not the only environmental
damage being done by the increasing population.
Nowadays water pollution is also one of the increasing
problems due to the population explosion. Water is
considered the essence of life. As in the case of air
pollution, the increasing population calls for increasing
numbers of factories. These factories lead to various
kinds of pollution, including water pollution.
GLOBAL WARMING &
CLIMATE CHANGE
 Notes
• One of the major issues that have lately been bothering
environmentalists all over the world is global warming.
• Global climate change is identified as one of the greatest
threats to the planet. Governments and scientists alike
have agreed that the problem is real and serious.
• Climate, if it changes at all, evolves so slowly that the
difference cannot be seen in a human lifetime. Looking to
times long past, scientists recognized that massive ice
sheets had once covered a good part of the Northern
Hemisphere.
BIODIVERSITY LOSS
 Notes
• Today, human activities are causing a massive
extinction of species, the full implications of which
are barely understood.
• The diversity of nature helps meet the recreational,
emotional, cultural, spiritual and aesthetic needs of
people.
 OTHER
NEGATIVE
IMPACTS
MASS MIGRATION,
OVERCROWDED SLUMS
DISEASES, CHAOS,
& VIOLENCE
DEPLETION OF
RESOURCES
POSSIBLE
SOLUTIONS
 ONE-CHILD
LEGISLATION
 Notes
• During China’s high controversial one-child policy,
fertility fell from six births per woman in the 1960s to
1.5 in 2014. However, Amnesty International reports
that the policy led to coerced or forced abortions
and sterilizations. It also disrupted traditional support
structures for the elderly and led to a gender
imbalance.
AWARENESS
AND
EDUCATION
 Notes
• The US-based Population Media Center gets
creative to reach women. Its radio soap operas,
which feature culturally specific stories about
reproductive issues, have been heard by as many
as 500 million people in 50 countries. In Ethiopia, 63
per cent of women seeking reproductive health
services reported tuning in.
 PROMOTE
FAMILY
PILLS PLANNING
 Notes
• Simply educating men and women about
contraception can have a big impact. When Iran
introduced a national family planning programme
in 1989, its fertility rate fell from 5.6 births per woman
to 2.6 in a decade. A similar effort in Rwanda saw a
threefold increase in contraception usage in just
five years.
EMPOWER
WOMEN
 Notes
• Studies show that women with access to
reproductive health services find it easier to break
out of poverty, while those who work are more likely
to use birth control. The United Nations Population
Fund aims to tackle both issues at once, running
microcredit projects to turn young women into
advocates for reproductive health.
 Concluding Note
• The Earth's environment is finite and can be
destroyed if we do not start population control.
• Although population control will not end all the
problems mentioned above, they would definitely
allow more time for them to be fixed.
• Lastly, population control helps alienate
environment problems.