Why Does Overfishing Make A Difference?

Written in 1968, Garrett Hardin presented a compelling formulation of the population problem. In his classic piece, “The Tragedy of the Commons”, a commons is a natural resource shared by many individuals. Shared means that each individual does not have a claim to any part of the resources but rather to the use of a portion of it for his/her own benefits (Hardin, G., 2009).

World population is facing challenges of low life expectancies in developing countries, overpopulation of people, and a high infant mortality rate due to regulations and a low quality of health. Developing countries typically have lower life expectancies due to a lack of nutritious food, safe drinking water, and medical attention. An overpopulation of people is caused by a lower infant mortality rate or better medical facilities in a country and it may cause air pollution, depletion of valuable resources, and less job opportunities. Most countries would love the number over 1000 to be zero in the infant mortality rate but many factors prevent children to live.

I chose this topic because in the past few decades, a lot of natural calamities and phenomena have taken place, e.g.: untimely floods, global warming, habitat loss, etc. And many of these have been caused by urbanization and one of the biggest threats that it poses i.e. the loss of ecosystems. Both urbanization and ecosystem loss disturb the natural balance of planet Earth. Therefore, it motivated me to take this topic.

The biggest problem right now is overpopulation, but many stray from talking about this huge issue. The world can only sustain 11 billion people, and the population is almost at 8 billion. By analyzing the issues of overpopulation, one can decipher how overpopulation can be stop by the issues of overpopulation, China’s policy, and my plan to fix the crisis of more births than deaths.

“We control every other species except our own.” (The Fresh Quote). Overpopulation is a big issue in society today, an issue that isn’t talked about as much as it should be. Everyone should be informed on the impacts they have on the planet we live on. In order to make people more aware of overpopulation, everyone should be more aware of the resources they use, how fast they use them and the affects they will have on the future. If the world’s population continues like this, we could be looking at another world war.

Jonathan Swift’s essay, A Modest Proposal, is famous for satirically suggesting that people start selling their babies for food, which would logically solve the overpopulation and starvation problem in the world. Despite this less than feasible solution, overpopulation is a serious problem in the world, given that there are over seven billion people alive currently. The excessive amount of people living in this world has an adverse effect on both society and the environment. The environment has been destroyed by human pollution and is depleted of natural resources due to the sheer amount of materials needed to support such a large population. In fact, many plastic water bottles used by people are discarded as trash and pollute bodies of water (Soechtig & Lindesy, 2009). Thankfully, there can be a few things done to ease overpopulation. Mainly, the public needs to be made more aware of the overpopulation problem that the world is facing. Beyond that, contraceptives and birth control could be made more available. Finally, the government could create incentives or laws to manage birth rates and populations. If these things happen, the world will surely benefit from a smaller population.

The concept of human overpopulation is the idea that one day there will be more humans on Earth than it can support. Famine, war, and mass deaths will follow. It is an idea that has been debated for hundreds of years and is still controversial. Some experts believe that the world will reach this point soon unless humanity drastically lowers its birth rates. However, other experts contend that humanity will do as it always has and use technology to find new means to support itself All environments have a carrying capacity, including Earth. A carrying capacity is the amount of resources any environment can provide and the amount of life those resources can sustain. For example, if a stretch of forest has enough plants to sustain 150 deer, and there are 150 deer, then the deer will be fine. But if there are more than 150 deer at any given time, the entire population will suffer. If

Overfishing is a big problem because each year, starting in 1988, about 3,800 fish were caught, but after that, the amount of fish began to fluctuate.. The second main problem is the temperature change in the lake, the water is becoming too warm in which some organisms in the lake may not be able to handle. An organism like Daphnia thrive at a temperature 20°C, but recently the temperature has been 21°to 24°C, this is too warm for the Daphnia which could be why many organisms in the lake are having a hard time

Among the utmost crucial environmental issues is human overpopulation, mutely exacerbating the intensities that are behind environmental pollution, global warming habitat loss, rigorous farming habits. Depletion of limited natural resources for example fossil fuels, fresh water, and cultivable land, at a velocity that is much faster than the time it takes for them to restore. Even so, environmental issues are merely the beginning.

Before the Industrial Revolution and an increase in the human population, man’s “survival and well being depended on his ability to increase his numbers against all kinds of odds: the ravages of disease, famine and war; adverse weather and the ordeals of settling untamed, uninhabited areas of the globe.” But now we control everything, from the environment to disease, resulting in man’ s only threat to survival in this planet is man itself, through “overpopulation by excessive breeding” (Strauss, 1963).

All the population in every country is committed to achieve a better and higher standard of living. Every single individual wish to have adequate amount of food, good health, literacy, education, being employed and better income in their lives. The current rate of population growth is a crucial barrier to the achievement of these goals.

According to the article, Shark populations healthy but still at risk, study finds, by Timothy Hurley, overfishing is the main cause of the population declining. Numerous sharks have been caught and thrown back after their fins have been cut off, the process is known as finning. For this reason, fins are used for soup, a delicacy known as shark fin soup. The dish supposedly offers various benefits to our bodies. However there is no scientific fact to support it. As the demands for shark fins increase, more sharks result in death. First and foremost, the practice is negatively impacting the population and environment. We need to raise awareness to revive the shark

Thomas Malthus’s An Essay on the Principle of Population offers a grim hypothesis regarding the world’s future based on our continuously increasing population growth, but a look around at the current state of humanity raises questions about the validity of these claims. The main principle underlying Malthus’s argument is that there simply is not enough, and there never has been enough, resources on this earth to sustain the indefinitely increasing world population, but there are still naysayers who reject this particular line of thinking. Over the past few years, major technological improvements have pushed the hypothetical doomsday scenario further and further away, leading many to wonder when and if it will ever really arrive, or, in contrast,

Global environmental changes have resulted in many problems like air and water pollution, environmental disasters, global warming and food security is one of these problems. The number and proportion of hungry people in the world are in decline with the recovery in the global economy and the survival food prices, but the hunger rate is still higher than it was before the crisis rising food prices and the economic crisis. Over the time these causes of food security issue are aggravating and growing which makes the need for speed avoided and resolved. This essay will discuss the global food security issue that emerged due to the population explosion, climate changes, agriculture problems, and lack of awareness of

Humans are part of the Earth's ecosystem. The Earth has limited resources to support populations. In addition, our activities and lifestyles have affected these resources negatively. According to Miller and Spoolman in Sustaining the Earth (2015),”human activity is putting such as a strain on the natural functions of earth”. When we chose house to live in or clothes to wear, we are affecting the availability of these resources for the long term. Overpopulation has caused several issues such as lack of natural resources, pollution, and species extinction.