Impacts Of Human Overpopulation

Introduction
Human population control is the practice of artificially altering the size of any population. (Human Population Control, n.d). It typically refers to the act of limiting the size of a human population so that it remains manageable, as opposed to the act of protecting a species from excessive rates of extinction, which is referred to as conservation biology (Human Population Control. This is done as a response to factors including high or increasing levels of poverty, overpopulation, and environmental concerns. Therefore, it is important to control population size as a response to the above-mentioned problems/factors, these factors are the subtopics that we will discuss in depth in this assignment. Reducing the size of a population

Human overpopulation is among the most pressing environmental issues, such as global warming, environmental pollution, habitat loss, the sixth mass extinction, intensive farming practices and the consumption of finite natural resources, i.e. fresh water arable land and fossil fuels, speeds faster than their rate of regeneration, so if human population is controlled this will not be a problem (Tsiattalos, 2014). This is why we apply measures to reduce the adverse impacts of overpopulation i.e. mitigation measures, such as spreading awareness and education about overpopulation, enacting birth control measures and regulations, and providing universal access to birth control devices and family planning, must be taken. In countries like China, the government has put policies in place that regulate the number of children allowed to a couple, and some leaders and environmentalists are suggesting that the United Nations implement a China-like one-child policy globally to help control and reduce overpopulation gradually. Others, such as Gerard K. O'Neill, Marshall T. Savage and John S. Lewis, have suggested building space habitats in asteroid belts or the Venusian atmosphere as viable solutions to successfully sustaining current population growth rates. Stabilizing human overpopulation, outside of relying on an

According to global outlook for water resources to the year 2025, it is estimated that by 2025, more than half of the world’s population wil be facing water based vulnerability and human demand for water will account for 70% of all available fresh water (Tsiattalos, 2014).
Increased Habitat Loss
According to (Michae, 2011) habitat loss is when land cover, or its aquatic equivalent, is changed, usually as a result of changing use by humans. Whenever we humans take over natural areas for our own use, we are encroaching on the habitat of another creature and progressively we are doing this at an alarming rate.
The world's forests, swamps, lakes and other habitats continue to disappear as we make way for agriculture, housing, roads, pipelines and all the other hallmarks of industrial development.
Human activity is responsible for the loss of around half of the forests that once covered the Earth. Although these can recover and can even be sustainably harvested, their rate of loss is about ten times higher than the rate of