Policy and Practice: Human population and its effect on the environment

Our world is full of many different people and different cultures. Babies are being born every day in all different countries. People are dying every day in all different countries also. The human population is always growing, and in some regions there is not enough land for the amount of people. Countries like China have policies intact that try to control over population.
China started its one child policy in 1979. Chinas goal was to limit the population to 1.2 billion by 2000. The policy rewards citizens for having one child with grants, maternity leave, and the children are given educational opportunities, housing, and employment. The policy does allow a second child under circumstances, but doesn’t allow more than two. China did not achieve its goal of 1.2 billion by 2000; instead it grew to 1.3 billion by 2000. Chinas population is still a problem and could become a major threat to the world.
India’s population is growing much faster than Chinas. India could overtake Chinas population by passing the 2 billion mark by 2025. That concept is very scary. The HIV epidemic is still growing rapidly in India and many other countries. India’s water supply is also another serious problem, they’re water supply is decreasing rapidly. The cropland is also decreasing due to the amount of citizens taking over the land. Due to those three reasons the death rates are increasing but the population is still increasing rapidly.
The population problem is still increasing and we still don’t know how to stop it. We are running out of space for every person to live comfortably, in the United States this is not a big issue but in other parts of the world it’s becoming an alarming issue. What can we do though? We can’t just kill the whole country of China or India, so we need to get serious about the over population epidemic.
The population problem will affect the global environment greatly. Since India and Africa has a terrible AIDS issue is that going to spread to other countries? If their water supply is running low will people start dying due to the lack of hydration? I think we need to get serious about these things and what we can do to improve them. If the population increases in almost every country then will we have enough space to hold everyone? The economic impact of over population will become more and more and even more of a serious problem.
Over population will affect environmental aspects of the world also. If more and more people are over populating a certain area then there won’t be a lot of room left for plants and animals to live and their habitats will become ruined. Again the birth of babies will be even more risky because a lot of them will be exposed to AIDS or HIV or any kind of disease that could be fatal. The land in general will just go to ruins due to the amount of people taking over it. The land in India will become harder and harder to irrigate or keep clean or grow crops on because of the amount of junk on the ground. The world will just keep getting worse and harder to function with the over population.