ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE

Environmental Issue

Environmental Issue

Thesis Statement

Fast population growth and global environmental transformation is two subjects that have received considerable public thought over the past several decades. Population boost become a global public policy issue during the mind twentieth century as mortality declines in many developing nations were not matched with reductions in fertility resulting in unprecedented growth rates.

Introduction

Since Population size is naturally linked to the environment as a result of individual resource needs as well as individual contributions to pollution. As a result, population increase yields heightened demands on air, water, and land environments, because they offer essential assets and act as sinks for environmental pollutants.

Concern with environmental change has come to forefront primarily since 1970, with discernible levels of environmental degradation fuelling public concern with the scope of contemporary environmental transformations and the advent of satellite imagery aiding environmental research (Colombo B. et all 1996).

At the present date are estimated roughly 6.5 billion people in the world and the figure continues to multiply. In contrast there are a restricted number of natural resources. (Cohen J.E.1995).

Background

Population policies which gears to reduce future growth represent logical responses to the environmental implications of population size (Stern et all 1995) although fertility diminution cannot be seen as sufficient response to contemporary human induced environmental change. A decrease in human numbers does not necessarily suggest a decrease in environmentally significant behaviours. Creating sustainable systems does not happen overnight. It requires looking ahead decades. But if you tell a society that it is addicted to growth and it will be better off giving it up, it would laugh at you.

In 1972, global population and consumption were still below the planet's long-term carrying capacity. It was only necessary to slow down and then stop. Now, they are far above, about 35% above according to Wackernagel's Global Ecological Footprint analysis, and the problem is to figure out how we can get back down below the sustainable limits.

While 'limits to growth' sounds restrictive, it just means that there are guidelines to which we must follow that does not allow us to recklessly reap profit at the expense of our planet. I believe there should be limits to growth as we cannot cope with the pace of progression that our world's population and economy is currently moving at today, and it is destroying our environment in the process. This essay aims to elucidate the factors which determine the success of policies to limit our growth, such as the willingness of the local governments to cooperate, how human rights hinders the 'greater good' of our planet, as well as the accuracy of the scientific knowledge which we accept as a basis for limiting growth. n most cases the government as owner prevailed over the government as regulator and as a result such environmental controls were rarely enforced at all.

Limits to Growth: Unfair and Ineffective; Governments UncooperativeOne of the major issues about environmental degradation would be deforestation. In addition, supposition that each further individual has an equal impact on resources ...