The world’s population is quickly growing… and growing… and growing. Our resources, obviously, are under an increasing amount of strain. With more mouths to feed, more food is needed world wide; millions of people are already dying from starvation on a daily basis. Not everyone has a home or even just a protective shelter. Resources are slowly yet surely depleting, and soon… we will be forced to face this international problem.

The thing is, the human population is not just growing but increasing faster than it ever has. Between 1800 and 1930, the world populatiojn doubled–in 100+ years. But it doubled again between 1930 and 1975, less than half the time is took to double previously. This has undeniably caused an increase in extinction rates of other animals, which is not a problem that can be lightly brushed away as no big deal. Because it really is a “big deal.”

What a majority of the human race seems to often forget or just ignore, is that we are simply and plainly animals. We do not own the earth or control the earth. We inhabit the plant with tens of thousands of other species that are as important as we are (or even more so) to maintaining the environment. But instead of doing so, we are grabbing the reigns, forcefully I might add, and attempting to will the earth to do our bidding. Because of this attitude, resources are withering away.

The solution? Well, the solution is not just finding other sources of food and energy, but making space. Space cannot be artificially produced; we must solve it realistically. Birth control is a wise idea… especially for families like the Duggars who have “19 Kids and Counting.” Situations like these are what proves my point to be absolutely correct: The human race wants to do whatever they want to do, even if it means producing an unnatural amount of offspring and taking more than their fair share of resources.

<http://www.cosmosmith.com/human_population_crisis.htm, http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/overpopulation/index.html, http://www.overpopulation.org/, http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/bel/bel_01populationcrisis.html>