...Overpopulation in India, Causes, consequences, solutions Felipe Benjumea Juan Casares EAS Overpopulation occurs when the number of people living in an area exceeds the limit the area is capable of having. In other words the relationship between the human population and its local environment is unbalanced. This is problematic because as individuals, we rely on a local area for subsistence; therefore, we are limited by the productivity of a given area. If productivity does not meet our demands, nature will be in charge of balancing the scale. However, we as humans are animals of reason. Therefore we are capable, through technology and culture, of living in an area that should, in theory, be unable to support us. And what makes it worst is the fact that, regardless of political (countries) and geographical barriers, we all share a common home called mother earth. Therefore overpopulation affects the individual area suffering from it, and, because of globalization, the rest of the world. However, the countries most affected by extreme population are of course the countries suffering from it. In our world there are many countries, principally, Asian countries that reside under this “deplorable” conditions of overpopulation. To understand overpopulation, it is necessary to analyze the underlying reasons behind it, the consequences of it, and most importantly the solutions for it. Like mentioned above, culturally and geographically, Asian countries are more prone to suffer...
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...of poverty are several, and each country can have causes that differ from other countries. But still, the main causes of poverty can be narrowed down into three main ideas, social causes, political causes and economic causes. The social causes of poverty can be narrowed down to two main topics, overpopulation and education. Overpopulation, as defined by Fight Poverty organization (n.d), is when a number of people live in a mass of land with deficiency in resources to support them. For example, Bangladesh is one of the most overpopulated countries with 1,078 persons per square km and the people there work in manual farming, but because of overpopulation, this contributes to the country's high level of poverty. Also, the land there is infertile and lacks the economic resources and technology to boost productivity. As a consequence it is in a state of poverty. In conclusion, overpopulation plus the lack of resources in the land contribute to poverty. When an area has more people than it can support, some of them would have sufficient resources and the others would live in shortage. This would lead to poverty and to class separation in the community between the have and they have not. Overpopulation is a problem in poor countries and it is making them even poorer, in developed countries, overpopulation is not a big problem because they have rules for family planning such as restraining the birth rate, for example in China. However, in under developed countries, high birth...
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...Anthony Mitchell Hessler 5/8/12 The Social-Economic, Political, and Environmental Impacts of Unregulated Population Growth Ladies and gentlemen of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, mankind is well on its way to answering a seldom asked yet vitally important question pertaining to its sustainability. "How many people can inhabit this planet sustainably?" This is a question that should have been looked into decades ago, yet the answer is still unclear. With no regards to what the answer may be mankind persists in rapidly escalating its population as if the worlds sustainable population capacity is limitless. With the numerous problems that currently plague mankind, overpopulation is perhaps the most threatening and overlooked issue. If current population trends continue there will undoubtedly be terrible repercussion to face in the future. Problems arising from overpopulation will eventually have a grim impact on the socio-economic systems and political systems of the world along with the environment as a whole, the worst of which could lead to the annihilation of the human race. This is why population growth should be a global concern that should be recognized, examined, and dealt with immediately. To understand the impacts of overpopulation one must first understand the concept of overpopulation. Overpopulation is a state wherein the population density of an area has grown large enough to exceed what would be the natural sustainable inhabitant capacity...
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...Social problems of Bangladesh Introduction Social problem is an unexpected situation which hinders to lead normal life in a society. Social problem is a multidimensional problem. Social problem are created by various reasons. Definition Sociologists usually consider a social problem to be an alleged situation that is incompatible with the values of a significant number of people who agree that action is needed to alter the situation. Social problems of Bangladesh and its remedies Bangladesh is attacked by various social problems. The main problems are over population, poverty, unemployment, crime, juvenile delinquency, corruption, lack of nutrition, prostitution, beggary and vagabond problem, dowry and women repression, lack of proper distribution of wealth, divorce, mental illness, mentally disability problem, lack of security, drug addition, lack of sound health, etc. we will briefly discuss these problems. 1) Population problems Overpopulation is not simply a function of the number or density o the individuals but rather the number of individuals compared to the resources (i.e. food production ) they need to survive. In other words, it is the ratio of population divided by resources. If a given environment has a population of ten, but there is food and drinking water enough for only nine, then that environment is overpopulated while if the population is 100 individuals but there are food and water enough for 900, it is not overpopulation. Remedies: To solve...
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...is free social-economic challenges. In totalitarianism society most spheres of life are controlled. For instance, population, social class, and even intellectual capability. History is directed and controlled to suit the aspiration of the state. However, a critical analysis of totalitarianism nothing of the sort. The application of specific social orientation and the use anti-depressant drugs have significantly solved the challenges faced by people in modern societies. It is prudent to note that poverty, class rivalry and overpopulation is perfected at the costs of individuality and with that their humanity. The people depicted by "brave new world" are oriented towards the needs of the state. Individual expression is squashed since everybody is conditioned to think alike. Brave New World is a book presenting a future society that looks more realistic and less brave at people’s social values turn more materialistic and as the faith in God diminishes slowly as is it replaced by technology. This book is meant to enhance human awareness of the terrifying future. The diversity of social operation within a society is controlled by the creation of social class. In order to maintain social stability, totalitarianism system uses various techniques of social control. After birth each person is taken through a process of conditioning that makes them cherish the pleasures of sex and sport.In addition, they are made to fearfully avoid non-social activities...
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...Poverty is the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions. It is the condition where people’s basic needs for food, clothing, and shelter are not being met. There are generally two types, absolute poverty is synonymous with destitution and occurs when people cannot obtain adequate resources to support a minimum level of physical health. Absolute poverty means about the same everywhere, and can be eradicated as demonstrated by some countries. Relative poverty occurs when people do not enjoy certain minimum level living standards as determined by a government that vary from country to country, sometimes within the same country. Relative poverty occurs everywhere, is said to be increasing and my never be eradicated. There are over 48 million Americans live in poverty, according to a special report by the Census Bureau (money.cnn.com). The government programs such as food stamps, caps (childcare and parent services program) is designed to help low income families afford safe quality child care, and section 8 which is a rental housing assistance program that authorizes payments of rental housing to private landlords on behalf of approximately 4.8 million low-income households do help some of the people in the Unites States but it is not enough. There are still 16% of American children living in poverty according to a supplemental report. According to the census report the official poverty line was $23,283 last year for a family of...
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...Globalization and the Caste System in India Mimi Winters Abstract India has experienced significant economic growth as a direct result of globalization even during the current global economic crisis. Yet many argue that this success does not reach all levels of Indian society. Indeed, some argue that globalization has actually had a negative impact on the lowest members of Indian society, the Dalits. This paper explores both sides of the argument by briefly explaining India’s 3,000-year-old caste system and its influence or lack of influence on the reduction of poverty among the Dalits. Globalization and the Caste System in India India is becoming one of the most significant players in the world economy today. Its rapid economic growth can be contributed to its increasing role in the global community. “Economic liberalization, including industrial deregulation, privatization of state-owned enterprises, and reduced controls on foreign trade and investment, began in the early 1990s and has served to accelerate the country's growth, which has averaged more than 7% per year since 1997” (Central Intelligence Agency, 2012, para. 3). India’s GDP was estimated at $4.463 trillion with a real growth rate of 7.8% and $3,700 per capita in 2011 (2012, para. 14). A majority of this success can be directly contributed to globalization. Although growth is expected to slow due to the global economic crisis, India is still experiencing...
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...What factors contributed to the social unrest of the 1930’s and the 1940’s? “As a consequence of the riot, the first awakenings of a new political awareness began to be felt in the hearts of black people, time and the remarkable foresight, courage and initiative of a few dedicated members of the majority were all that were required to crystallize this awareness into a mighty political force.” – Doris Johnson, the Quiet Revolution in the Bahamas: Family Islanders Press Limited -1972. Numerous factors or elements contributed to the social issues of the 1930s and the 1940s. From social factors such as: crime, racism, lack of education and poverty to economic factors like: Unemployment, the 1929 Stock Market Crash, The Great Depression and underemployment. To think about it there were even political factors such as: the residents didn’t like who was in charge of the country, and they didn’t have a say or a vote. The first economic issue that I am going to talk about is the 1929 stock Market crash which then leads into the Great Depression. The world was in crisis when the stock market crashed in October, 1929 in New York on Wall Street. The stock market was one of the largest institutions in America. “While business tycoons were getting richer, the workers in their factories were poorly paid, the farmers were not receiving fair prices for their crops and therefore masses of people didn’t have enough money to buy what the factories were producing. Soon the factories came to...
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...Juanita Johnson Professor Camille Castorina ECO 405 February 1, 2015 I chose the article “The Most Dangerous States in America” By Alexander Kent and Thomas C. Frohlich. This article was an interessting read of the statistics concerning violent crime in america. It takes into account income and educations as being major factors that contribute to the rate of crime that we experience here in the United States. While this relation is not 100%, it still is very useful in understanding how and why crime is more prevalent in certain areas of the country than in others. To better understand this article it’s important to understand what crime really is. Crime is defined as an action or an instance of negligence that is deemed injurious to the public welfare or morals or to the interests of the state and that illegally prohibited. There is a long list of different categories of crimes. Crimes can generally be divided up into 4 categories: Personal crimes, Property crimes, Inchoate crimes and statutory crimes. Personal crimes are “Offenses against the Person”: These are crimes result in physical or mental harm to another person. Personal crimes include: Assault , Battery, False Imprisonment, Kidnapping, Homicide – crimes such as first and second degree, murder, and involuntary manslaughter, and vehicular homicide, Rape, statutory rape, sexual assault and other offenses of a sexual nature. Property Crimes – “Offenses against ...
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...DRUG ABUSE The excessive and unregulated use of drugs which is popularly called drug abuse or drug addiction has emerged as a major social problem recently and has crossed the border of caste, class, creed, sex and nation. It is like curse for developing country like India as it has already existing problems like poverty, unemployment and overpopulation. Drug abuse affects individuals, their families and the society as a whole. Drug abuse often leads to crime as a result of reduced impulse control, paranoia and negligence. Thus, affects the law and order, economic production and human welfare. Drug abuse implies physical dependence upon a drug including the development of tolerance and withdrawal. An addict who develops tolerance requires more and more of the drug to transport him to the world of fantasies. If the addict is not allowed to take the drug he suffers from painful and uncontrollable convulsions, vomiting, depression and various other maladies. If one looks at the causes of the spread of this evil, the changes in the traditional pattern of society emerge as the major one. Rapid industrialization and urbanization have ushered in a new way of life with new values like individualism and permissiveness. This has resulted in loosening of informal means of social control, for example, influences of conventional sophistication but have low frustration tolerance. The stresses and strains of modern life with resulting frustration and depression give rise of escapist tendencies...
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...The Northeast became the first industrial center for the U.S. for a variety of reasons, including an abundance of natural resources, a vast amount of ports were easily accessed, better education made for skilled laborers, overpopulation made labor cheap, and fast flowing rivers were power sources for factories. The North had many natural resources such as lumber, furs, and iron; New Englanders took advantage of these native resources and the South’s resources, like cotton, to manufacture goods. Additionally, the Northeast also had an abundance of natural harbors containing busy ports, facilitating the large exportation of manufactured goods and importation of raw materials. Because of urbanization in the North, education was more common and...
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...By implementing programs such as education, job training, drug treatment, and anger management, less money would be spent since the rate of recidivism will decrease. The effect is more broad than just that, since there are more rehabilitated individuals reentering society, costs in healthcare are cut due to fewer uninsured addicts will be institutionalized, and the cost of law enforcement and courts will be cut since there are lower crime rates and arrests. Not to mention the economic bonus of prisoners re-entering society with skills that will better them in the workplace. While rehabilitation programs can have a large cost up front, between $628- $652 million dollars a year just in the state of California, this cost will be offset by the efficacy of these programs in rehabilitating prisoners to shorten their sentences, and keep them out of prisons for good (Ocregister, 2013). Implementing these rehabilitation programs will save money by discouraging prisoners from fall back into a life of crime. Not only that but it will save money in the long run, by introducing prisoners back into society with skills and education needed to hold...
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...TERM PAPER ABOUT POVERTY I. INTRODUCTION : One of the major problems that continue to plaque the Philippines is poverty. Despite the said efforts of both government and business firms many Filipinos remain in need. It is not a simple problem because nowadays we are facing mass poverty. For all the magnificent testimonies to man’s superior skill and intellect in producing today’s level of cultural development, he still has to find the solution to mass poverty. Whether the government would admit it or not, it is very clear even with our bare eyes that we our suffering a lot from poverty. But what is poverty anyway? Let first define poverty so we can have a clear understanding with what are we going to discuss. From a Webster dictionary, poverty means ‘lack of money or material possessions’. While from the book of Villegas entitled ‘Guide to Economics for Filipinos’ he stated that poverty or being poor means ‘experiencing a low quality of life deprived of both the material and non material requirements that allow an individual to live like a human being’. According to ‘Addison Wesley Economics’ by Richard M. Hodgetts’ said most of people regard poverty as ‘a condition in which people are unable to buy the minimal amount of food, clothing and shelter that is required for existence’. Over all there are a lot of ways to define poverty, it depends on how the person thinks or how does the person relate it to his life personal experiences. Obviously there are a lot more economic...
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...Eye on Asia Can soaring population give India an edge over China? Posted by: Bruce Einhorn on September 19, 2006 India’s population is exploding and is likely to surpass China as the world’s biggest within a few decades. In a country where more than 25% of the people live in poverty, is that a good thing? One of the top executives at India’s premier pharma company seems to think so. Last week Brian Tempest, the former CEO and current “chief mentor” at Ranbaxy Laboratories, told an industry gathering that the growth of India’s below-25 population “is going to act as a secret weapon in the future,” according to this report in the Hindu. Tempest went on to take a jab at China, saying that slower Chinese population growth would put the Middle Kingdom at a disadvantage. Says Tempest, “the one-child policy in China will play a spoilsport.” The logic is simple. Fast population growth equals more young people, and more young people equals a more dynamic work force. According to the Indian Express, citing India’s Ministry of Labour and Employment, India already has an advantage over more advanced economies. The median age in India in 2000 was 24, compared to 30 in China, 38 in Europe and 41 in creaky old Japan. However, most of those Indians live in the countryside, and it’s no secret that India’s rural population is not sharing in the boom enjoyed by people in other parts of the country. In the past, Asiatech blog readers have written in to debate the merits of India’s development...
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...The Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012 (Republic Act No. 10354), informally known as the Reproductive Health Law or RH Law, is a law in the Philippines, which guarantees universal access to methods on contraception, fertility control, sexual education, and maternal care. While there is general agreement about its provisions on maternal and child health, there is great debate on its mandate that the Philippine government and the private sector will fund and undertake widespread distribution of family planning devices such as condoms, birth control pills, and IUDs, as the government continues to disseminate information on their use through all health care centers. Passage of the legislation was controversial and highly divisive, with experts, academics, religious institutions, and major political figures declaring their support or opposition while it was pending in the legislature. Heated debates and rallies both supporting and opposing the RH Bill took place nationwide. The Supreme Court delayed implementation of the law in March 2013 in response to challenges. On April 8, 2014, the Court ruled that the law was "not unconstitutional" but struck down eight provisions partially or in full.[ Criticism[edit] Opponents of the bill argue that: People's freedom to access contraceptives is not restricted by any opposing law, being available in family planning NGOs, stores, etc. The country is not a welfare state: taxpayer's money should not be used...
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