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Effect of Population

The document discusses the effects of uncontrolled population growth. It notes that while population growth can initially be beneficial, there is a point when the population exceeds available resources and causes overpopulation. The consequences of overpopulation are severe, including issues with housing, food, water and waste management as populations grow larger. Ultimately, the key problems stem from a mismanagement of natural resources and waste, which especially impacts less wealthy regions without proper infrastructure.

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Effect of Population

The document discusses the effects of uncontrolled population growth. It notes that while population growth can initially be beneficial, there is a point when the population exceeds available resources and causes overpopulation. The consequences of overpopulation are severe, including issues with housing, food, water and waste management as populations grow larger. Ultimately, the key problems stem from a mismanagement of natural resources and waste, which especially impacts less wealthy regions without proper infrastructure.

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Effect of population

The effects of population growth are varied and vast. While population growth, of any
species, may be beneficial to a certain extent, there may come a time when the number
in the population exceeds the natural resources available to sustain it. This is referred to
as overpopulation. The consequences of such an event are severe and major.
The population growth of any animal, if left uncontrolled can become burdensome.
Farmers have noted, for many centuries, what the effects of an uncontrolled predator
population can do to livestock. Once their natural prey run out, or are harder to find, the
predators may turn to domesticated animals, despite the risks. This can cause a severe
hardship on any family depending on those animals for survival.
However, when most think of a growing population, they do not think of other animals.
The prime fear in most people's minds is the population growth of their own species. As
humans leave a much larger footprint on the environment than any other creature,
uncontrolled overgrowth can be especially devastating.
First, as the population grows the opportunities for quality, available housing may
become an issue. More people crowded into less space is not a good combination in
any locality. As space is taken up, it becomes more valuable. Eventually, it begins to
affect to poorest in the area. In the long run the effect of population growth may be
substandard housing or homelessness.
In other cases, access to food and clean water may be the main issue. This is an even
more immediate problem than housing. As more people are faced with unsanitary
sources of food, disease and famine begin to take root. If left unaffected, it will sweep
through an entire population. In some cases, entire countries may be affected by the
situation. Finding a solution often requires a multi-national effort.
Another negative effect of population growth is waste control. When there are relatively
few people, controlling waste is a much simpler task. However, as populations grow, the
waste increases dramatically. Finding a spot for this waste, or treating it in a way that
does not poison the environment, is critically important. Regions of the world that do not
have the ability to do this will find it leads to a number other serious issues and
becomes a massive public healthproblem.
In general, the problem is not population growth in itself, it is a mismanagement of
natural resources and waste that cause the majority of the problems. Many places have
found effective strategies for dealing with such issues. Other locations, usually because
of a lack of relative wealth, and perhaps engineering knowledge, have fallen behind.
Population-A population is a summation of all the organisms of the same group
or species, who live in the samegeographical area, and have the capability of
interbreeding.
[1][2]

In ecology, the population of a certain species in a certain area is estimated using
the Lincoln Index. The area that is used to define a sexual population is defined as the
area where inter-breeding is potentially possible between any pair within the area. The
probability of interbreeding is greater than the probability of cross-breeding with
individuals from other areas. Under normal conditions, breeding is substantially more
common within the area than across the border.
[3]

In sociology, population refers to a collection of human beings. Demography is a social
science which entails the statistical study of human populations. This article refers
mainly to human population.
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