Argumentative

Mission Population Regulation

Cruising into the new millennium, humans crossed a threshold that has never been witnessed in our species. We actually crossed the six billion mark in number. This figure is immense, and it cannot be easily appreciated unless it is Shell or McDonald's that we are talking about. Shell will then have more customers to sell oil to, and McDonald's will have a larger market to target its burgers on. However, the tendency to think about population as a problem for our world has its own serious implications and limitations. The problem is not excess population, as our Earth has sufficient space and resources to support even a much larger population than now. The actual glitch lies within humans, as they have not thought about this issue correctly. Humans have to realize that overpopulation is really just a myth.

Let's try to realize this giant population of the world. Since this essay contains approximately one thousand eight hundred words, it would take about four million copies of this document to produce enough words to represent all humans presently on earth. The number of humans in the world is over thirteen times the number of words contained in the dictionary of the English language. Also, if our species were to hold hands side by side, we would circumscribe the Earth's equator about 15 times. Furthermore, if all humans were to move into an area the size of the state of Texas, each of us would theoretically have a space of approximately thirty feet by thirty feet to themselves. Keep in mind that Texas is slightly smaller than Turkey, slightly larger than Ukraine, the second largest state in the United States of America, and more than five times the size of England (Population Control). Indeed, our Earth is loaded with space, and surely does have room for plenty more of us.

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