I am concerned about the growing population of the world. The earth can only maintain so many people before we run out of food and water for everyone. We already have enough trouble feeding people everywhere, and our population is getting larger and larger every day. There are over six billion people currently and unless we do something soon to either produce more food using less resources or we convince this six billion to have no more than two kids in their lifetime, we won’t be able to feed everyone that is hungry. I think China has the right idea by giving incentives for people to have fewer children. If you give positive rewards people will listen, and we can avoid the hunger crisis. India tried punishing people for having more children and that just cause people to distrust the government family planners and was not successful. We can also look at genetically altered plants to provide a temporary solution. These plants can be made to grow in harsher climates or produce higher yields of food than current plants. This wouldn’t stop the population explosion, but it would give us time to find more solutions. Maybe sometime in the future we will move into space to find more land for farming? That is an interesting thing to think about. However, at the rate we are growing there will be serious problems trying to feed the world soon and we need to find a solution that can last, not just prolong the issue.
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