Overpopulation++Fact+Sheet

Science behind the problem and what the problem is, where it is occurring, why, etc.?

Overpopulation is a condition where an organism’s numbers exceed the carrying capacity of its habitat; for humans their towns and cities; and for animals the wood land, rivers, oceans, lakes, plains, etc. The problem that we are facing is that some organisms are overflowing the area around them that supports their survival, for example a deer in the woods, the woods gives the deer certain things that it needs to survive in that kind of environment. Scientists believe that India is the closest to overpopulation on the earth right now, because of the population of 1.8 billion the people in India are competing for their country’s resources. Also they believe that China is close to overpopulation too, because of the population of 1.3 billion; according to the U.S. Census Bureau and the United Nations Population Division say that if the growth in population keeps at it’s pace then there will be an uncertain future for the environment and the people living there. Overpopulation occurs because of the people and other organisms reproducing at an enormous rate. If the human race overpopulates all the other species like most people suspect it will then we will one day be extinct like mammoths and the saber toothed cat. However if the animals overpopulate us then they will overpower the human race and become the top organism in the planet and on the food chain.

Some things that will happen when humans overpopulate other organisms is crime, not enough food, not enough homes, not enough jobs, poverty, not enough oxygen, death, wildlife vegetation decrease, pollution, traffic, resources, how population changes over time. For crime in humans, we would steal to be able to support our survival even if it means killing our own kind in the process; also the gangs would grow in size to the police force so they would be able to murder, steal, and cause vandalism. We wouldn’t have enough food because we would eventually eat all the remaining food sources in the world, so starvation would occur until the point that some would turn into cannibals; with the over population the food chain would collapses. Also we would eventually run out of space to live, due to the fact that we would overflow the amount that cities, and towns can hold in one place at a time, we would have to rebuild and make more homes to adapt the growth. Even if we built more homes we would have to deal with no have enough jobs in the community for all the people to be able to support their families, because there would be to many people working for all of them to get a job. With the fact that they will not be enough jobs that means poverty will begin, which is not having enough money to support yourself, that means that some people will have money to eat and live, but the unlucky wouldn’t. With the growth in the population then the people would run out of oxygen eventually, because of the constant cutting down of trees that support our oxygen flow. Death has to deal with the fact that the crime would go up and pollution would go up too so the people have a higher chance of dying from the loss of food and the higher chances of pollution and crime. The rest that we described in the beginning interact with the other ones so they basically have the same thing as the other ones that were already explained.

For animals they wouldn’t have enough food, habitats, oxygen/trees, have more death, wildlife vegetation decrease, and resources. The ones dealing with not enough food and habitats would be the same as if the humans overpopulated an area on the map, but the rest are all different. Now the one that has to deal with not enough oxygen/trees, would have to do with the fact that some animals cut down trees to make homes, like beavers so if they cut down more trees, then birds wouldn’t have a home. Also with the decrease in tree area then the animals wouldn’t have enough oxygen to be able to breath even the fish in the sea, because they get their oxygen from dissolved oxygen in the air. Death for animals would have to do with the fact that when the animals run out of food then they will start to eat each other, which means the meat-eaters would rule because they already eat other animals, but they would eventually have to eat each other in their species because of the lack of food. Wildlife vegetation would go down because of all the herbivores that are animals would eventually eat all the plants that are in the area that they live, so later on they would have to move to a different area to be able to eat. Lastly the resources have to deal with everything that was just explained about what would happen if the animals overpopulated the human race and messed up the food chain.

For both species the population would change over time by, first it would start with just a little increase, but then it will gradually rise to an enormous rate and they would overpopulated the area they live in. To show how that looks, take on bunny and then multiply that by two, then the next time by four, and then by six, and so on and so on until they eventually would overpopulate the rest the organisms on the planet.