Population Control Is Needed

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Population Control is Needed


Brenda Platt paper lobal Warming and Population explores ways in which population growth could cause global warming, and if population control should be a central strategy in stabilizing global environmental change. Platt illustrates how population growth is a factor through the increase in resources, which creates an increase in greenhouse gas emissions. She also uses arguments from other authors (Ehrlich vs. Simon debate) to give an insight into others opinions. I believe the information given is not enough to make a decision on population control, which is needed.

Platt essay gives more than enough evidence on how we are creating global warming through overpopulation, but the essay needed to include more on what will happen if our global population isn taken into consideration. This information was important to include: here are good physical reasons to suggest that more intense storms (hurricanes) could result from global warming some researchers believe that global warming is foreshadowing a coming ice-age. and the ultimate end of existence of Earth and man (http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1848/global.html). In conclusion, Platt believes that population control should not be considered the central strategy in protecting the global environment. She believes that we should be creating family planning programs to empower women to make rational choices for themselves and their families. All countries are of different religions and beliefs and there will always be an individual or group who does not accept certain controls. I believe that every country should enforce a plan of action to change population control and with an outcome of changing the direction to which our planet is heading....