The Earth s Inadequate Supply Of Natural Resources

Mallory York Environmental Science September 10, 2015 The Earth s inadequate supply of natural resources will only be able to tolerate 2 billion humans by 2100, the bad thing about that is, is that the world already feeds and supports 5.9 billion. The ideal human population, or carrying capacity, for the U.S. is projected to be 200 million, which is way fewer than the current population of the United States. This is a growing problem in not only the United States but also around our world today. The growing of population can lead to the diminishing of more than one or two of our natural resources. For more than a couple years the population has been growing faster than our renewable and non-renewable resources. Not only will we have†¦show more content†¦If we could drop the rate of the people reproducing that aren’t financially capable of raising children then we could drop the carrying capacity rate making our natural resources more abundant. Reproducing was looked at very differently â€Å"150 years ago, when lifespans were shorter, it was important to the survival of humanity for young women to bear children at an early age. Today, with longer lives due to modern medicine and sanitation, more infants are surviving childhood, and adults are living longer lives† (World Population Awareness). If women continue to have children at younger ages and the birth rate continues to stay the same for the â€Å"normal† bearing mothers then we will continue to have a major increase in our population. It is said that â€Å"if a region is experiencing a net population growth rate (even 1% doubles in 70 years), or if it is already exceeding carrying capacity, it is important for sex education, family planning, and self-esteem programs to be concentrated on young women in their teen years† (World Population Awareness). The more teens that are reproducing at a younger age the more problems we will face in the future w ith lack of natural resources. If teens are getting the proper sex education programs while they are still young there could be a chance for this to turn around. Like stated above, many years ago when the life span was