The continued rise in the world’s population is the greatest problem faced by humanity at the present time. What are the causes of this continued rise? Do you agree that it is the greatest problem faced by humanity?

In the media, in politics, and in academia, the impact of a massive

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in the total global

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is arguably

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of the most sensitive and hotly-debated topics among all of the potential threats to humanity that are currently under discussion. The current essay discusses some of the perceived causes of

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, as well as asks the question of whether in fact an

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in the global

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should be considered a serious problem when compared to other potential threats to our existence. That there is a global

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in the general human

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is no doubt. China now has a

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of over

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billion inhabitants despite the best efforts of their government to control

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through their ‘

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-child policy’, while India now has a total number of people approaching the billion mark. The

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rate in the developing world countries continues to

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as families from certain countries lack access to

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control for financial, political or religious reasons, while in some

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a large family offers a degree of security against the impact of disease or accidents that may befall certain members of that family.

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, when discussing the seriousness of

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problem compared to other pressing issues,

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can find that the reported

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in

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is not universal across all societies and cultures.

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, it is often reported that in far-Eastern countries

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as Korea and Japan, the

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rate among the indigenous

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has dropped sharply over the

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few decades, and

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, those working in higher education

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that as the numbers of potential students look set to drop in the coming years, some institutes may well have to close. Other European countries

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as the UK or Sweden are seeing a fall in the

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rates of the native

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, while

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has been balanced by an

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in the immigrant

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.

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, while in some contexts

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growth may appear unsustainable, in other contexts, governments are actively pushing for their

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to

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. With the above factors in mind, as long as improvements in resource management and food technology are made, it may be possible to support an

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in the

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of those in the developing world. At the same time, if developing nations can begin to reach economic parity with the developed world,

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might see the

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in the global

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eventually become curtailed.