1) Minimum In Fresh Water
According to researchers at UN-Water, 75% of the planet is filled with water. 97.5% of that percentage is water from the ocean and 2.5% of it is fresh water. 70% of said freshwater is broken up into ice caps and glaciers and the last 30% is all land surface water, like rivers, lakes, ponds, and groundwater.
A lot of the sources of freshwater can either not be reached or are way too polluted, resulting in less than 1% of the world’s freshwater, or around 0.003% of all water on the planet, readily available for all humans use. Based on research done by the scientists at Global Outlook for Water Resources to the Year 2025, it is guessed that by the year 2025, more than 50% of the planet’s population will be up against water-based drought and the general human need for water will be true for 70% of any remaining freshwater.
2) Species Extinct
The human species is as of right now the reason behind the biggest mass extinction of species since the demise of the dinosaurs almost 65 million years ago. This extinction is occurring at 1000 to 10,000 times faster than usual.
The update made in 2012 of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species reveals that of the 63,837 species that are studied all over the world, 19,817 are in danger of extinction, which is almost a third of the total.
If current events continue, scientists suggest that within the next few decades, almost half of all animal and plant species on this planet will be obsolete, due to the effects of climate change, habitat loss, pollution, acidifying oceans, invasive species, over-exploitation of natural resources, overfishing, poaching and finally, human overpopulation.
3) Reduction of Natural Resources
As the human population grows more and more, limited natural resources, for example, freshwater, fossil fuels, coral reefs, farmland, and frontier forests, keep on dropping, which is putting competitive stress on the basic life assisting resources and chaperoning to a disgusting quality of life. A recent report by the UNEP Global Environment Outlook, which includes 1,400 scientists and five whole years-worth of work to be completed, discovered that human consumption had far outstripped available resources.
4) New Epidemics and Pandemics
A recent study reveals that environmental depravity, mixed with the ever-growing population on Earth, happens to be a huge reason for the rise of human diseases, which also plays a part in the malnutrition of 3.7 billion people all over the world, causing them to be more vulnerable to disease. According to the World Health Organization, Every three seconds a young child dies – in most cases from an infectious disease.
No Freedom
As population masses go up, rules and regulations, which are viewed as a main social advocate of affiliations between people, will more often mediate communication between humans and invent a requirement for more regulations and restrictions in order to mediate this intercommunication.
In 1958, Aldous Huxley guessed that democracy is in trouble because of overpopulation and could potentially become an environment run by totalitarian-style governments, and it just so turns out that he was correct. Rules and regulations can be great concepts, but for the sole reason that they are essential in order to make room for the growing populations that are reassuring such policies.
