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The nightmare of population growth

One of the most urgent problems facing us now is the need to control population growth so thatdespitealthoughpoorer people in the twenty first century stand a chance of survival. pooreralthoughfirstunderstand the birth rate in developing countries has fallen, it continues to rise in poorer countries understandmedicalas a result offirst better medical care. It is hard to understand the phenomenal growth that has taken place this century. Around the first century A.D there were probablyAlthoughresultAccording between 250 and 350 million people in the world.

Sixteen centuries later , the number had risen to only 500 million. AroundAccordingThereforeProbably for more than three quarters of the time between Christ and the present day, world population hardlycenturiesbetweenalthough rose. Then, slowly the rise began. By 1900 it was 1500 million. Now it is 4,700 million. The increase in the past 65 years – less than the average life-time of an English person today - has equalled the entire increase in the previous 100, 000 years of human existence. resultDespiteAccordingWhat is more, the rate of increase , now close to twenty per cent a decade, is still shooting up.

According to United Nations estimates, the population of the world will have risen to over 6,000 million by the end of the century. AlthoughWhileAccordingDespite the rate of increase is only seven percent a decade in western Europe, in many developing countries it is between twenty-five and thirty per cent.

ProblemsDespiteResultObviously, population control will be one of the biggest problems facing the twenty-first century. FacingAlthoughDespiteProblems all warning signs, too little is being done too late.

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