The Population Bomb

The Population Bomb

In the article “The Population Bomb” the author claims that during the last six decades Pakistan’s population has grown greatly from 32.5 million to 160.25 million. Also, Shahbaz Hussain is a Federal Population Welfare Minister who said Pakistan is a part of South Asia, which is a penniless region and has one of the higher populations in the world. He was concerned about Pakistan’s population which will bring extreme problems to people. For example, the government can not offer enough health services and educational systems for people. However, this article mentions what the reasons for Pakistan’s population increasing are, such as a high fertility rate and a low infant mortality rate, which can develop a country’s population. Meanwhile, if the Pakistan government also improves health services, medicine techniques and sanitation systems that will help Pakistan’s population increasing. Therefore, the author wants us to know a great population that is not a big problem for a country. This depends on a government’s policies. Is it focusing on the people’s environment?

It is apparent that the author’s opinion is right in this article. The government has to care for the country’s environment. Is it good for people who have a great population condition? Even if a great population causes lots of problems, the government still has to solve them. If the government can from develop education, economy and medical techniques to improve our environment, than a great population’s people still can feel happiness.

First of all, I used to live in a highly populated country, Taiwan, so in my opinion education is a very important factor to control population. Education can let people to know about prevention of pregnancy and it also can develop its economy and environment. However, people can get education, so they will easily get jobs and solve many kinds of environment problems. For example, in the past fifty years, Taiwan has had a really high growth rate and high infant mortality rate, because people didn’t know how to prevent pregnancy and also low education led to infants dying in first year of life, because they didn’t have enough medical science to treat diseases. Therefore, the government has to develop education, which is a first step for population growth or reduction.

Next, economy is a major factor to affect country’s population. It also is a signal that lets government officials know what causes population growth. For example, a society or a family has a low economy, which will cause people to not like having children, and it also leads to a birth rate decrease. Therefore, if the government supports society to have high economy, this lets people be able to raise their children and that country’s population will increase.

Finally, the developing medical techniques are very helpful in population’s promotion. It will lead to infant mortality rate decrease and control of fertility rate.However, a country has developing medical techniques that will protect people or infants from diseases and cause a decline in death rate. Moreover, the developing medical techniques also can increase fertility rate or birth rate, because it could bring a good opportunity for women who can’t get pregnant. For example, in the past, some people had a problem in pregnancy because they didn’t have a good medical technique to solve it, but now almost every developed country has low infant mortality rate because of new medical technique.

In conclusion, in the future, even though most countries tend to high population, we have to appeal to our government to improve environment first, because people are the most important part in the country, and a the government has responsibility to take care of them. Therefore, a country with a large population, we should have a good environment to support people living in society. In my opinion, a country with a large population is not a big problem, because we have a good example of a country, China. In China, people have education and good economic society that supports China even if has a great population, but people are still happy, because the Chinese government has a good policy in environment.

Reference

The Population Bomb. (2006, November 21). Business Recorder. Retrieved July 10, 2007, from Lexis Nexis database.

By Marc Chang
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