By Antonio J. Montalvan II Last updated 01:19am (Mla time) 07/10/2006
Published on page A15 of the July 10, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
I strike down Montalvan’s opinion. He may have a point, but the rapid and dramatic rise in world population that has occurred over the last few hundred years has brought us a pessimistic result generating a need for twice as much housing and food. Many developing nations are already having trouble providing adequate living conditions for their inhabitants.
Population growth will inevitably outstrip agricultural production, leading to cyclical food scarcity, decreased wages, and deteriorating labor conditions. The poorer socioeconomic classes would always suffer the worst consequences. Productive capacity of the world’s resources, especially agriculture, ultimately could never increase quickly enough to sustain the needs of a human population. More people necessitated more food. Excessively high population densities put stress on available resources. Only a certain number of people can be supported on a given area of land.
This unprecedented surge in population, combined with rising individual consumption of food, water, and natural resources, has begun to strain Earth’s capacity to sustain human life thus, leading us to poverty.
I persuasively believe that a country’s level of poverty can depend greatly on its mix of population density.
Population growth will inevitably outstrip agricultural production, leading to cyclical food scarcity, decreased wages, and deteriorating labor conditions. The poorer socioeconomic classes would always suffer the worst consequences. Productive capacity of the world’s resources, especially agriculture, ultimately could never increase quickly enough to sustain the needs of a human population. More people necessitated more food. Excessively high population densities put stress on available resources. Only a certain number of people can be supported on a given area of land.
This unprecedented surge in population, combined with rising individual consumption of food, water, and natural resources, has begun to strain Earth’s capacity to sustain human life thus, leading us to poverty.
I persuasively believe that a country’s level of poverty can depend greatly on its mix of population density.
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