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 is the greatest problem faced by humanity?

The worldwide growth of the population is rising more and more becoming the main issue we have to face nowadays. The

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in the world population is an effect

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the improved standard of life we are facing today. Compared with previous centuries, we are now healthier and we have access to more nutrients than it was in the past. The technology improved greatly and we are now able to tackle the health problem more easily. The creation of vaccines,

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helped us to deal with global diseases that in the past were the main reason for mass deaths.

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the past the main source of food came from subsistence agriculture, but after the industrial revolution more jobs were created and the life

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improved. Nowadays we are

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the negative effects of

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constant and fast growth. If before the development was seen as something positive that should not be regulated, now we understand that our globe cannot support

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overcrowded situation,

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is not sustainable growth. Food resources are becoming scarce and we are concentrating

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production in less developed countries, where we are exploiting the lands and workforces for mere

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consumerism, where the consumption is concentrated, leaving almost nothing for the rest. There are overcrowded cities like India that can barely sustain the quantity of

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population, many people live along the streets in poor sanitary conditions. Even though overpopulation is a great complication for humanity, I believe that overpopulation is the greatest problem for our planet. Unfortunately, the way we live is not only affecting us

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our environment, the pollution that we create as

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human

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is a lot. We have created pollution just for the fact that we are breathing, but

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for the choices we made

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buying objects and food. Intensive farming, created to respond to growing market demand is polluting and exploiting a lot of resources. Unsustainable agriculture has put many poor people in

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of starvation and it

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creates a lot of waste

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important sources

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as water. If we cannot stop overpopulation, we should at least

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to make better choices and improve our habits, to live as much as possible in harmony with our planet.