Population = Poverty Environmental Issues and Ethics Team A SCI/362 Trika Gerard December 8, 2014 Population = Poverty The population boom of China was realized back in 1978. China started to initiate a population plan in order not to over populate the land. It worked and by 1980 300 million births had been prevented. But that is when China realized that it wanted to become a super industrialized power just like the United States and Europe. What they never realized was the consequences on the environment and the billions of people that live on this earth. Population = Poverty The negative long term effects on the environment are reaching a non reversible status. Since the forests are being rapidly exterminated to accommodate the increasing population, the issue of animal population not having a place to flourish and develop is rapidly rising which is creating a misbalance on the Earths ecosystem. Waste management is one of the pressing matters that needs to be solved rather fast. Population = Poverty The ozone layers constant weakening keeps on exacerbating the harsh weather phenomena which ultimately ends up costing billions of dollars globally. All of the money directed towards repairing environmental issues caused by humans could have been be directed towards managing population control and its well being. Population = Poverty The stakeholders involved in Population = Poverty are the United Nations (UN) and the United States (US). The basis for the UN claims lay in the fact that the US is per capita the most wasteful country in the world. The UN claims that if nothing is done about the population of third world countries and the wastefulness of the industrialized countries then the world as we know it is doomed to end. The end of the world dispute stems from the UN funded reports that state there are not enough resources for the expanding population. Population = Poverty In an attempt to mitigate the ongoing increase growth in population the United Nations (UN) funds family-planning and HIV prevention measure programs. The UN is also an advocate of woman’s right to choose and therefore supports abortion procedures in countries where it is legal. The UN even recommended contraceptive advice and sex education at every grade level. Population = Poverty The US claim that they are not responsible for the upcoming cataclysmic event, it is the developing third world countries new industrialization. The US claims those countries have an uncontrolled population growth and should not become industrialized because the world cannot sustain the use of resources by those countries. Also the US cannot curve their way of life because it will have a devastating effect on their economy. Population = Poverty The US also has not assisted with UN campaigns dealing with woman’s right to choose and contraceptives as part of the population reducing efforts in developing counties. The US social perspective is a Pro-Life s.