Earth's Population

Our world's population has seen drastic changes since the late 1960s when the growth rate reaches its peak: 2%. Earth's population now is 7 billion people and counting and we are expecting it to reach 8 billion in 2024.  Overpopulation is one of the most concerned problems in the world. As we know, China and India have the highest population: 1.4 billion and 1.27 billion people. There are articles that talk about the problems:

http://www.codewit.com/asia-pacific/15717-overpopulation-in-china

The cause of China's exponential population growth is because of the encouragement that Mao Zedong gave to the people of China after World War II. He encouraged people to have as much children as possible since it would bring more money to the economy. As a result, a massive increase of population of 712 million of people in just 20 years.This circumstance contributed to our problem today. But China has taken preventive measures to decrease the growth rate: One child per family.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/world/europe/germany-fights-population-drop.html?pagewanted=all

Although there are countries with increasing population, Germany is not one of them. In fact, Germany's population is decreasing. They have a negative growth rate. More people are dying than babies being born. In a town, there had been 60 houses torn down as well as 12 apartments. The country has a decreasing population and it some cities feel empty. In 2100, the population would be only 70 million people left. The government is encouraging the population to have more children to prevent this problem to happen.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2517637/India-stretched-limit-overpopulation.html

India's exploding population is a hard to contain by the government. The demand for goods and services is tremendously high, and there are not enough facility to accommodate and satisfy the people's need. With the two billion figure blooming, along with shortage on needs, it might be too late when Western technology innovation comes.

http://www.howmany.org/big_picture.php

Many problems occur under the pressure of overpopulation. Not enough food and water for at least 1 billion people on Earth, scarce limited resources that are now even harder to exploit and extract, etc are the negative effects that we need to eradicate. We need to create a safe environment where everyone receives the same basic needs that they need to survive. We need to cut down our resource consumption with recycle and reuse. Our world is limited in land as well as in resources, so we need to take charge and save our home planet. Future generations depend on how well we treat the planet now and leave them with the most prominent and prosperous legacy.