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11. Are there any solutions to end starvation? 20. What can people like me, an eighteen year old, do to help?
The UN claims that farmers in Africa can be be taught better farm You can join an activist group, or do tabling alone if you can't find
management. Africa is where the highest growth is. It remains to be a group. You can educate yourself on the subject and all the arguments
seen if this will be enough to end starvation. and issues on the subject (I hope my website will help you there), and
participate in letter writing and leaving comments on online newspaper
12. What types of diets have the least environmental impact? articles about population. You can find WOA's Facebook page (World
Diets which use plants instead of animals; animals are ok if they feed Overpopulation Awareness), and share your activist activities with us
on land or in water that cannot be used for crops. Some plant diets there. You can look up Population Connection, and find suggestions of
are better than others, using less resources. what to do there (one of them is making presentations to school
teachers, who take the lesson to their students). You can hook up with
13. Is overpopulation a problem that we need to be worrying the Sierra Club and join population activities there:
about? http://www.sierraclub.org/population/
Yes, overpopulation is like a runaway train, and the longer we wait to
do something about it, the harder it will be to deal with the impacts. 21. Why don't we hear much about this issue on the news and
such? It seems like something that should be dealt with
14. What is the biggest effect of overpopulation? immediately, yet I don't see anyone in power taking action.
The United States and other countries HAVE been taking action on this
The most drastic impact so far is food shortages, with one billion issue for many years. Programs are in place for voluntary family
people classified as 'undernourished' by the World Health Organization planning and reproductive health, among others that reduce fertility
(WHO) in 2009, and nearly a billion undernourished in each of 2007, rates. These programs have been instrumental in bringing down world
2008, and 2011. 3 billion people in the world today struggle to fertility rates, which are now around 2.5 children per woman. But
survive on US$2/day, and food prices are rising. every year there is a battle over how much funding should be put into
these programs by the U.S
The second and third impacts of overpopulation are Peak Oil and
Climate Change. Some will argue that climate change is not man made, ~~~
but it is indeed happening and causing crop failures. The world is This article may be copied freely, in whole or in part. Reference to
producing less oil today than it did last year, and this trend will its source, overpopulation.org, would be appreciated, but only without
continue. Both peak oil and climate change result in less food to feed significant modification of any wording in the text.
the world, peak oil because food depends on mechanized farm
machinery and transport.