OVERPOPULATION AND ITS IMPACT ON THE

ENVIRONMENT
 Introduction

• Overpopulations is the state where by the human population rises to

an extent exceeding the carrying capacity of the ecological setting.
 Causes of overpopulation

• Increase in life expectancy

With the advancement of science and new technologies being
discovered every day to fight diseases, life expectancy has almost
doubled
• The decrease in infant mortality rate
In the 18th and 19th century due to lack of knowledge, technology, and
vaccinations, newborn infants could not live long enough.
 Causes of overpopulation

• Prevailing Education
undeveloped nations lack proper education about reproduction and preventive
measures of reproduction, due to this lack of proper education about
precautions, there’s a steep rise in the population of the world especially in
those nations.

• Poverty
Poor and uneducated households may give birth to a child considering that
another member of the family would only result in more hands that could earn.
This could often lead to a negative impact on both, economy and environment.
Environmental effects of overpopulation

Farming impacts
• . With the advancement of time and with the increasing population,
demand for food has risen.
• to overcome this difficulty, farmers with the support of the
government started cutting the forest in order to increase their hold
on land that was fit for farming and the use of fertilizers to increase
crops.
 Effects of overpopulation…..

• Deforestation
Due to population , it was becoming impossible for the human to build
houses to live in, it also hard to pass through the forest in order to
travel from one place to another. So they arrived at the conclusion of
cutting down the forest altogether to build houses, roads and to
increase farming capacity.
Picture that show deforestation
 Effects of overpopulation…….

• Global warming and climate change

Another negative impact that overpopulation has had on the
environment is clearly visible in the form of global warming and climate
change.
Graph of population vs temperature
 Effect of overpopulation….

• Increase of new epidemics and pandemics

There is a strong correlation between the emergence of new epidemics
and pandemics and overpopulation. . As the population increases, their
interaction with animals and their ecosystem increase
 Conclusion

• Overpopulation and a degrading environment bring us to many

questions, it also puts our existence in question. One question that
should hit us hard is that are we really ready for sixth extinction? Are
we really doing justice to the environment? Are we really giving to
nature what we are getting from it? Till when will the earth be able to
bear the burden of our exploitation.
 References

• https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy
• Mark, C. U. (2015) Accelerating extinction risk from climate change. Science, Vol. 348 (6234), 571-573
• https://www.activesustainability.com/environment/top-5-most-polluting-countries/
• NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, State of the Climate: Global Climate Report for Annual
2019, published online January 2020, retrieved on July 18, 2020, from
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201913.
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