5.0 INTRODUCTION.
Today the Nile Basin nations are witnessing large challenges regarding demographic and socio-economic development, with a large but dwindling discrepancy between the level of development of Egypt and the other riparian states for instance. The population growth and push for economic development is regularly increasing the pressure on the Nile River as a water resource, while the attempts to unfold a basin wide agreement on the river Nile’s use have not been successful so far and a condition of low level conflict exists.
Consequently, in this research paper the question of the impact of population growth on inter-state conflict over the Nile river has been brought up and examined in a complex structure, putting into account
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Food security becomes a problem with finite resources because the low economic development of most states in the region, feeding more people becomes a problem. Population growth has become responsible for global environmental insecurity simply because of pollution and deforestation. Huge population of mainly young people languish in poverty, suffering and unemployment provides a fertile ground for terrorism. Soaring population growth has meant states find ways to cater for their people hence pursuing their own interest more robustly because of the threat envisaged. Ethiopia for instance has been a big challenge to the prehistoric agreements governing the waters of the river Nile more than ever because of its high population currently couple with its high growth …show more content…
One of the vital measures is to absorb policies reflecting social change. Educating the masses aids them in understanding the necessity to have one or two children at the most. Families that are facing a tough life and choose to have four or five children should be dissuaded from. Family planning and efficient birth control can support women in making their own reproductive choices. Open discussions on abortion and voluntary sterilization should be seen when talking about overpopulation.
Another vital measure is that of enabling people to be aware of family planning: As population of the Nile basin region is increasing at a rapid speed, raising awareness among people on the issue of family planning and letting them know about the serious after effects of overpopulation. This can help curb population growth. One of the best way is to let the young people know about various techniques and contraceptives methods available to stay away from any unwanted
The natural resources in this realm made countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, and the United Arab Emirates wealthy. However, it also caused rifts between the Islamic societies and their governments. Also, because of not having access to drinkable water some people in these regions suffered because they did not have desalinization plants to turn the seawater into
What would you do if all of a sudden the government said you could only have one child? This is exactly what policy happened in 1980 in China when the One Child Policy was enacted. There has been a lot of talk about if this policy was necessary and if it had a good or bad effect on China’s future. This policy was a good idea because it positively affected women and girls, reduced pollution, and parents are now able to give more care and attention to one child. China’s One Child Policy was a good idea because it helped women and girls.
Mao Zedong, one of the most influential leaders in Chinese history, once said that, “Of all the things in the world, people are the most precious.” One of the biggest problems that he faced was the growing population of China. At first, he discouraged birth control, but when the growth rate was growing astronomically, Mao introduced “Late, Long and Few.” When even this was not slowing down the population growth, China implemented a one-child policy. It allowed for the Chinese population to have one child, and was far more harmful than beneficial to China.
The speech was given to a group of people attending the Sixth International Neo-Malthusian and Birth Control Conference, a conference on the topics of birth control and population control. In front of an audience that praised and disagreed with her ideas, Sanger spoke using many rhetorical devices to guarantee a spark to the senses of every audience member listening. Too many babies wasn’t just a problem for mothers, but for the whole world. Sanger approached the ideas of overpopulation, abortions, women 's choice, and the
In March of 1925, Margaret Sanger delivered the outcome of overpopulation and a lack of birth control options(“Margaret Sanger’s “The Children’s Era” Analysis”). She discussed the so-called “Children’s Era”, which desired countless happy and healthy children all around the world, as a key part missing from our ideal future. Children brought up in poor circumstances are nearly doomed to have a bright future; these babies are jinxed before leaving the womb. Therefore, a child can only be healthy and successful if it is raised in a similar environment. In order to prevent the babies who are ill-prepared for or unexpected, birth control is necessary.
What China was trying to achieve with the One Child Policy was fix a problem they had caused in the first place, when, Mao Zedong, encouraged having more children to have more future workers, and discouraged the use of birth controls (Intro). The One Child Policy came into place in 1980, effected the ethnicity of Han Chinese and was definitely not one of China’s best ideas. It caused many hardships for the citizens of China. The policy was unnecessary for many of three reasons: the fertility rate was already dropping, there is a huge gender and age imbalance, as well as it is to blame for some of the youth’s social issues. From 1970 to 1979 there was a big reduction in fertility rates in China from 5.8 to 2.7, which was prior to the One
To begin, typically between June and September, the river would flood its banks. Since there is little rainfall in Egypt, this yearly flood would allow moisture back into the soil, improving the conditions for farming. This area of land “along the banks of the Nile [is called] the Kemet, or Black Land.” It is noted that “the land along the banks of the Nile River were extremely fertile.” In addition, the Nile River acted as a natural highway, creating opportunities to trade goods by water.
DBQ: Famine in Ethiopia: How did the government make it worse? (hook)From 1983-1985, a famine in Ethiopia caused millions to die. In 1984, grain prices increased by 300% and five Ethiopian provinces set all-time lows for rainfall. Many people, blamed the famine on the drought, but later figured out that the real cause was politics. Soviet-backed communist Derg took over and worsened the famine.
Ancient civilizations began in areas that had arable land and other features such as rivers. Civilizations succeeded in these environments because they could settle down and not live a nomadic lifestyle. Because the land was arable, agriculture prospered and people relied on the geography to grant them the elements needed for survival. In China and Egypt, geography greatly influenced and affected the lives of the people living there because of the prosperous rivers and large natural barriers.
In 1960, the first birth control pill was put on the market. This was the first time a woman’s reproductive health was in her own control. Ever since the 1900’s women have been fighting for the right to their own reproductive rights (“The Fight for Reproductive Rights”). With the upcoming presidential election the right to obtain birth control and other contraceptives for women could be jeopardized, and taken out of the control of the woman. Thus, the history of birth control, the statistics of how it affects today’s society, why women should have the ability to obtain it easily, and how if outlawed it would not only hurt women, but also the economy are all important topics in the women’s rights movement and very relevant in modern day society.
These people do not control the size of their families, and they just have children even if they don’t plan on having them, and that is why Margaret Sanger want her audience to have knowledge of birth control, so they can control the size of their families, and so they won’t just have children whenever they don’t take care of themselves. Where they might end up giving these children up, or where these children might end up suffering, or where women just end up having abortions, and these are some reasons why Margaret Sanger opened up a clinic to help people to plan
III. The support side of the Teenage Pregnancy strategy was backed up by an intervention that targeted areas of high deprivation with high conception areas. This would help pilot a government initiative that aimed to reduce the risk of long-term social exclusion associated with teenage pregnancy that helped by providing intensive support for parents and children to help them with housing, healthcare, parenting skills, education and child care. (1) “The claim that all humans, whatever their race, gender, religion, or age, have the right to life seems evident enough”.
That way nobody is restricted of their right to procreate, just discouraged. For example, China is making woman have one baby by having them ask permission to have more babies 3. Spreading awareness about overpopulation Lack of the awareness about overpopulation can lead to families that do not care for limit the number of children they have and unfortunately, most people nowadays aren’t really familiar with overpopulation and its negative effects. Therefore, by spreading the awareness about overpopulation possibly can change them to be more aware of how their actions affects the entire country, and they can do their part as their responsibility to keep their country’s population at a sustainable
Looking at the low numbers of contraceptives being use one of the factors that has been over looked is the fact that Black men and women will not use condoms or any other form of contraceptive due them seeing them as a white man’s things. Lectures have been taking place in the rural places to try help educate the young people however some parents may feel as though their children are being taught to be sexually active but they are being taught how to be safe when they have sexual intercourse. Some parents prefer the government to do the teaching because they are not comfortable about that conversation or they do not have the knowledge except telling not to have sex. The Zulu culture has put a lot of pressure when it comes to women bearing sons and sadly of they had Daughters they were not a favourable and this led to the man taking a second wife. We have looked at the different contraception’s
Teenage pregnancy is becoming a societal problem that branches out to other problems that it is caused for the growth of poverty rate in different baranggays. One of the reasons why teenagers are already aware with this topic is because of media. They get a higher knowledge to sex from the magazines, TV shows, internet, movies and other