Overpopulation is the world's most serious environmental problem. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

It has been argued that excessive population is the most outstanding threat to the
environment
of the globe. I totally agree with
this
idea. One of the main
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effect
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that is
attributed to overpopulation is the
growing
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of
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air pollution due to the overuse of transportation means. We are now living in
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world with advanced technologies in transportation, which means modern
people
nowadays cannot live without
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by taking
airplane
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, vehicles or ships.
Such
transport tools generate a staggering volume of exhausted fumes on a daily basis and in turn have
negative
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impact on air quality.
Therefore
, if there are too many
people
in
this
world, the increasing demand for transportation will exacerbate
this
problem considerably. Another notable environmental issue that overpopulation will cause is the climbing accumulation of
rubbish
, which causes
damages
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to both soil and ocean.
Although
not all the products produced by
human
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are detrimental to the
environment
, undoubtedly,
people
nowadays still rely on chemical products like
disinfectant
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and materials which are non-biodegradable,
such
as some plastics bottle and bags. When
such
chemical
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and materials become
rubbish
while
people
are fail
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to dispose of them appropriately, the soil would be eroded and the ocean would be severely polluted. Not to mention that many creatures living in oceans are dead because
them
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ate the plastic products
by
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incidentally. Unfortunately, with the increase in population, the amount of
such
rubbish
would be increasingly produced and the
environment
would be put at stake as
the
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result of
this
trend. In conclusion, due to the impact of increasing exhausted fume and non-
environment
-friendly
rubbish
, it is totally reasonable to believe that overpopulation will become the top concern to the
environment
. The
governmental
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should
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actions
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to curb the adverse impacts of
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population
to
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the
environment
of our world.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • exacerbating
  • finite resources
  • environmental degradation
  • biodiversity
  • greenhouse gas emissions
  • sustainable consumption
  • habitat loss
  • family planning
  • renewable energy
  • technological advancements
  • resource management
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