Some people today believe that the world’s increase in population is unsustainable and will eventually lead to a global crisis. Other people believe that world population increase is necessary and beneficial as it creates the growth of the world’s economy and society. Discuss both these views and give your opinion. Give reasons for your answers and include any relevant examples from your knowledge or experience.

As M.K. Gandhi earlier said, "The world has enough to offer the man need but insufficient to the man greed". Our planet currently consists of fossil fuel reserves that could

last

up to 50 years at the current consumption level. If we optimise and maximise renewable

resources

we could fulfil the

energy

needs till mankind's survival.

In contrast

to renewable

resources

, the consumption of fossil fuels would lower mankind's life as increased carbon emissions lead to the melting of icebergs, and

this

could hugely disturb the

water

cycle, and

further

severe the climate change issues we are facing today. As our

population

increases, our annual

energy

demands

also

increase

.

This

not only limits

energy

demands

,

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but

also

our

food

and drinking

water

demands

. There are two types of people, either they support increased

population

or they are against it. The groups which support the

increase

in the

population

are economists and financial experts. As the

population

increases, the demand for

energy

,

food

and drinking

water

rise

and so it enables the

economy

to grow. The

economy

deals with the supply and demand of

resources

, as

demands

i.e.

population

that requires

resources

rise

the price of the commodity upsurge.

Hence

, the managers dealing with the basic

resources

always had an upper hand in controlling the global

economy

.

Hence

, it's beneficial for any region to focus on its

population

to compete in the global

economy

. The

second

group who are against

population

growth are climate change experts and scientists. As per their analogy, the root cause of the extinction of mankind will be the excessive use of natural

resources

which are depletable in nature. These depleting

resources

are having the most carbon footprint on our ecology and hamper the natural flow of winds throughout our planet. The

increase

in

population

will lead to excessive use of

resources

where we still depend on fossil fuels for our

energy

needs.

Food

and fresh-

water

demands

also

tend to

increase

with the

population

rise

. On our planet

resources

are distributed unevenly,

thus

managing the

population

rise

in a local region would be difficult for the managers. For e.g., in Gulf countries, due to their proximity to the desert, there is insufficient

food

and

water

for the local

population

.

In contrast

, these countries have the largest oil and natural gas deposits in the world.

Hence

looking into both views, it can be summarized that in the long term dependence on depletable

resources

could hamper economic growth as it would not be sufficient to deal with the

rise

in populace.

Furthermore

, excessive demand for

energy

,

food

and potable

water

would lead to the extinction of natural

resources

.