Overpopulation
For a country to rise means for a country to industrialize. With the growth of the economy and standard of living comes the consequential growth in waste, overcrowding, and demand. While the increase in population gives means for the increase in labor, products, and export of a country it comes with a compromise.
To emerge from the metaphorical dark of pre-industrialized cities into the light of new technology creates a wanting of the so called “new and improved”. Is this a good thing? While the people in these countries desire an easier life, the functionality of an overcrowded city is greatly compromised. Lines grow along side the multitudes of people.
Imagine this: they’ve finally put a subway in your town. You ride the subway to school everyday and over the months this seems a great improvement over the normal routine. However, you begin to notice that it gets harder and harder to find a seat and you continually have to wait for the next train to come. Over time you discover that it actually takes you longer to ride the subway than drive yourself. Do you consider this an improvement?
The global population is said to increase by 1,003,028,261 people in the next 15 years. This rise is not in just births, but even factors in the deaths as well. That is millions of new people in new cities. Overcrowding is already an issue to most people. Can we as a society continue to manage these great numbers of people? Will safety decrease due to the hectic nature of this new population explosion? What about quality of products such as food?
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