Population Problems

Population Problems

1. The inadequacy created by a high population feature in different areas. Amenities and infrastructures fall-short no matter government and private efforts. Roads are congested, there is shortage of food supply. Clean and portable water not within the reach of everybody. Cost of consumable items become very high. Securing accommodation becomes very difficult and this lead to the development of shanties around urban centers. Crimes of different magnitudes and degrees become rampant.
2. Environmentally, high population has brought about a fourfold increase in resources consumption per person and necessitates the adoption of a wide array of technologies that have damaged the environment. The natural ecosystem which are the basic apparatus that support the human enterprise have undergone an unprecedented damage as a result of over depletion.
3. Areas of high populations have assumed large scale land degradation which claims over 40% of the earth’s surface. This causes a loss of over 10% of the earth’s potentials to supply food, fibre, fodder, timber, biomass energy and other important resources.
4. There has been an unprecedented loss of biological diversity which are working parts of the human life-support systems. These continue to suffer high rate extinction and this phenomenon is on a continuous basis following increase in population.
5. Populations explosion (increase) is responsible for the rapid climate change which threatens human existence and effort particularly in the agricultural sector, thereby limiting human enterprise.
6. Deforestation has and continue to reach alarming level following the removal of more trees, one – third of the original forest cover in order to create spaces for settlement, transportation passages, farmlands, animals rearing, and large scale burning in order to meet the demand of the growing population.
7. The earths vital ozone shield which provides natural protection to man is being depleted. This allows the ultraviolet rays to descend heavily on the earth’s surface and its resources thereby causing great problem.
8. High population globally causes ecosystem toxification (poisonous) following outpouring of thousands of synthetic chemicals into the environment which interfere with the state of the ecosystems functioning and human development processes.

In spite the problems of population enumerated above, human population is the leading component of human existence because it is the resources base.