Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Current Event: Populations

This is the news article from BBC NEWS: A squash and a squeeze
This article states so many problems about world population and how it is going to be in many years. If we keep going on like this, what would happen?
This basically tells us the estimates on the world's population. Charts and pictures are shown on the link. It is still mainly about England, but if you get the idea, you'll realize how endangered our world is. As some say, we are the cancer of our world. It just keeps getting worse.

Acrostic Poem

Swelling population, people are predicting the population of 2031
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he UK's population estimate would be 75million by 2031
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ll are scared, because the power of population is stronger than the power of the Earth
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he Earth will not be able to support all of mankind soon
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n 1965, the UK population was being augmented by a much higher total fertility rate
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tatistics show how wrong the scientists have been about the year 2001
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he demographers have checked fertility rates and have seen that in the 1960s, the fertility rates dropped
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 know that many are concerned about the environment, like Sir Julian Huxley
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hallenges are yet to be overcome as our numbers increase
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truggles to cope with our surging population are still present