One of the most pressing problems facing the world today is overpopulation. What policies do you think governments should adopt to address the causes and effects of this problem? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.*

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society is facing a plethora of problems, and overpopulation happens to be among the most common of them.

Although

it is deemed to be a quite controversial topic, population control

policies

are being commonly discussed on the political level and even adopted by some governments nowadays. To start off with the topic of these

policies

, some examples should be mentioned of the cases of their active usage in modern history,

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as China's infamous law on the number of children in a single household. Until recently,

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government used to tax families that willingly had more than one child. It allowed the country to bring its' extreme birth rates down for the economy to keep up with the number of

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existing population. The mentioned law,

however

, had recently been revised, becoming much less restrictive, and allowing families to comfortably afford having more children.

Although

China was not the only country in modern history to directly restrict the means of reproduction, its' example has been mentioned actively in mass media, bringing up the questions of

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of

such

policies

. Of course,

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humanity should come up with

counter measures

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for overpopulation, but the dilemma of restricting life in order to survive seems way more complex than it might sound

initially

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the countless examples of failed population control attempts made by the Russian government during the Soviet Union era. Among those were the attempts of secularizing the conservative religious communities around the Southern Caucasus in order to convince the people in that region to give up on the concept of having big extended families. To sum it up, overpopulation is indeed a serious threat

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our civilization

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current times.

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policies

on controlling it should be introduced, those

policies

should not be too restrictive on humans.