1. What are the population trends around the world and what factors are influencing those trends?
The population all around the world has grown excessively during the past century. For example, if you have four kids, and then they each have four kids, that would mean you have sixteen grandchildren and all together, you would be a family of twenty six, in just three generations, and that’s not including your parents’ families. This is the way that the world has grown over the past years, as population increases, families are growing as well, and so the world gets more crowded.
2. What is being done to stabilize global population growth?
To stabilize population growth, there are many courses being offered all around the world, to make sure every child born will have an equal chance of survival and an equal chance of education and success in the world, and to make sure the parents can afford to keep their child. This not only covers economy issues, but can convince people not to grow their family just yet as well as global population.
3. How are resources distributed and utilized?
Resources are not distributed equally among the people of the world. At the moment, there’s enough food for every person in the world, but only some people have the privilege and the money to afford their food and eat every day. Most of the world’s population doesn’t have that privilege. Also, if the world’s money were shared equally per person, then our school would be too expensive to go to because the tuition would be almost triple the amount that each person would have. The way that the resources are distributed at the moment, not everything is being utilized, there is a lot going to waste, or a lot which nothing is happening to. But oil or petroleum is a resource that the world is using up at an incredibly enormous rate, and people are panicking over what they will do in the future since that is our main source of energy at the moment, and almost everyone depends on those products in one way or another.
4. What are the effects of humanity’s consumption of the world’s resources?
The effects of our use of the world’s resources is that we might one day run out of what we treasure most. Many of us take electricity, for example, as granted, but as soon as the world runs out the resource that powers our houses and lights and computers, we’ll be without what we treasure the most, and if we don’t think about it and create an alternative resource now, then we’ll never be prepared for what is coming up in the future.
5. What are possible solutions to problems associated with population trends and use of resources?
There are many solutions to problems associated with population trends and use of resources. One is to cut down use of a certain resources because we are running out of it, or finding an alternative resource, but in the case of electricity, gas and oil being the main resource, it is not possible to do overnight, because the alternative resource first has to be found, tested and then there has to be enough machines made so that they can replace the number of oil consuming prodcts that there are in the world, and then actually have people come out and switch their old enviromentally unfriendly items with the new and improved technical advancements.
