OVERPOPULATION

DEFINITION

• Excessive population of an area to the point
• Of overcrowding.
• This is caused by increased birth rates, decline in
• Morality rates, or an increase in immigration.
• This can cause depletion of natural resources.

HOW HAS IT EFFECTED THE WORLD

• 1 out of 7 people go to bed hungry.
• 25,000 die from malnutrition
• 18,000 of them are children.

WATER SHORTAGES

• A great amount of people lack access to clean water.
• Because of so many people, aquifers are being used
• Faster than they can be replenished.
• There is not enough water for consumption, agriculture
• And sanitization.

OIL AND GAS

• If the population was smaller we wouldn't have to
• Rush to drill for more oil.
• The use of fossil fuels in larger amounts is putting more
• Co2 into the atmosphere.
• Between 2005 and 2020, oil production will start to decline.

WORKS CITED

• www.howmany.org/environmental_and_social_ills.php
• www.humanoverpopulation.com
• overpopulation.net