An introduction to the issue of overpopulation

Human overpopulation is among the most pressing environmental issues, silently aggravating the forces behind global warmingenvironmental pollutionhabitat lossthe sixth mass extinctionintensive farming practices and the consumption of finite natural resources, such as fresh water, arable land and fossil fuelsat speeds faster than their rate of regeneration.

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Its consequences are poverty, famine, disease and deathsometimes on very large scales. Minor problems An introduction to the issue of overpopulation overcrowding, strained infrastructure and social instability. By facilitating contraception and women's medical services we enable family planning.

Making birth control accessible to all is a moral requirement for anyone who has the power to help.

It is inconsistent, for example, to say that contraception and abortion is "murder" whilst ignoring the fact that poverty and overpopulation are far bigger killers. Aside from population control, "the health benefits of contraceptive use are substantial.

Contraceptives prevent unintended pregnancies, reduce the number of abortions, and lower the incidence of death and disability related to complications of pregnancy and childbirth" 1. The numbers of abortions that are prevented by contraception is staggering.

A Guttmacher Institute report on the developing world predicts that "inuse of modern contraceptives in the developing world will prevent million unintended pregnancies, which, in turn, will avert 55 million unplanned births, million abortions 40 million of them unsafe25 million miscarriages andmaternal deaths.

It will also prevent an estimated 1. Condoms help prevent the spread of disease - their effect is strong enough that long-term use by a community can gradually eradicate strains of sexually transmitted diseases from the community.

Venereal disease causes unimaginable suffering and can affect the purely innocent. Babies are frequently infected with the diseases of the parents; in this way, the prevention of disease with contraception is vital because once women in a local area are infected with a disease, children will also be directly infected.

In the case of incurable diseases, such an event can lead to unsurmountable suffering.

Understanding past responses

Such a terrible state of affairs is prevented by the correct use of contraceptives such as condoms. The number of women with unmet needs for contraception in the developing world is still increasing - between and the figure rose from million to million 1. Those 69 countries are the ones that are least able to support growing populations.

These religious groups are associated largely with Islam, Roman Catholicism, and evangelical Christianity. Despite the practical necessity of birth controlthe benefits of disease prevention, the moral responsibility we have towards the future of our children and the responsibility we have with regards to the stewardship of our planet, many religions have opposed birth control for various superstitious reasons.

Why have religions determined to prevent family planning? The answer is in a kind of survival of the fittest amongst religions themselves. As most religious people simply abide by the religion of their parents 5religions that encourage parents to have more children will attain a stronger and longer-lasting base of adherents.

Barber notes that religions promote fertility by encouraging marriage at a much earlier age than amongst the non-religious 6. Bearing this out is Catholicism, which has an infamously strict suite of dogmas that forbid all kinds of birth control. The Roman Catholic Church is the most notable, powerful and active organisation that lobbies against birth-control wherever it can, internationally.

Thankfully Most Catholics routinely ignore the Church on this issue, especially in educated and developed countries, but there are still plenty of fast-growing countries where the Catholic Church is still prospering the old-fashioned way.

Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? [Alan Weisman] on regardbouddhiste.com *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us. In his bestselling book The World Without Us. Ovulation will usually occur within 20 to 50 hours after mating, and the eggs are viable (capable of being fertilized) for approximately one day. The eggs are fertilized in the oviduct, and then make their way to the uterus via the uterine horn, implanting in the uterine lining within 10 to 12 days. Overpopulation is becoming a major global issue for today and for future societies. People need to be informed on the causes and consequences of overpopulation so that it can be controlled and regulated.

It took the government of the Philippines 13 years to force through legislation to allow government-funded contraception and for sex education in schools because of the strength of the opposition of the Catholic Church there - in a country where 11 women die of pregnancy-related problems every day.

The Catholic Church "ferociously" opposed it, warning of moral and social collapse, the destruction of family life, and divine wrath, if it was passed. The bill is considered "a major step toward reducing maternal deaths and promoting family planning in the impoverished country, which has one of Asia's fastest-growing populations.

It shows that the effects of religious prohibitions against birth control are clear on the international scale. Conversely, every country that has a fertility rate of over 3.

On account of all of this, in " Why I am not a Christian " by Bertrand Russell 9 the author takes a moral stance against the Church: If they already have too many children for the family income, there will be poverty, underfeeding, overcrowding, very likely incest. To please [the anti-contraception religious types] a life of torture is inflicted upon millions of human beings [ Yet it is the greater suffering which is deliberately inflicted by bishops and politicians in the name of morality.

The availability of methods to control family size is one of the biggest factors in being able to escape poverty. People in poor countries are now able to exert more control over their own fertility, and hence over the size of their families.

Kressel 11 relates a story about an American woman who "now believes abortion rights are an important component of American civil rights and that physicians have a moral obligation to make them available, even if at considerable risk to themselves.

In the real-world, the moral arguments are strongly in favour of those who defend the right of women and doctors to be able to freely use abortion as one of their possible methods of preventing harm.Few people doubt the severity of the problem that overpopulation presents for this regardbouddhiste.com consequences are poverty, famine, disease and death, sometimes on very large regardbouddhiste.com problems include overcrowding, strained infrastructure and social instability.

By facilitating contraception and women's medical services we enable family planning. India has billion people living in 25 states, speaking 19 major languages and over a dialects, practicing over about 6 religions and belonging to thousands of castes and sub-castes.

Ovulation will usually occur within 20 to 50 hours after mating, and the eggs are viable (capable of being fertilized) for approximately one day. The eggs are fertilized in the oviduct, and then make their way to the uterus via the uterine horn, implanting in the uterine lining within 10 to 12 days.

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The Necessity of Birth Control and Contraception and the Opposition of Religious Organisations

A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us. In his bestselling book The World Without Us. Overpopulation, in my belief, is an enormously serious global issue that should be identified, analyzed, and controlled immediately.

The term overpopulation literally means that the number of things (in this case: humans) that depend on resources for survival is significantly larger than the amount of resources available to them.