Concerns about the Earths Population growth

Our planet Earth has been experiencing many global changes as our population has been increasing. The greatest fear for our future (within the next decade) is that more then half our worlds population will unfortunetly experience "Water-stress" or "water-scarce" conditions. In other words this means that in some parts of the world, water will either become very difficult and in some cases almost impossible to find. Another growing concern is our high consumption levels, mainly in developed nations. For example: The United states of America represents about 4 percent of our intire global population, yet they consume over 25 percent of all resources.

The reasoning is that our ressources are being unequally distributed. People who have easy access to their ressources (DCs) will use more then they need as it is easily accesable, while those in LDCs will consume less and in proportion to what they actually need, rather then wasting their "precious" ressources. Unfortunetly these are not the only concerns we are facing in the

neer futur. As LDCs we are creating industrialization, thus contributing to climate change, ozone depletion and over fishing. We are teaching the rest of the world how to become comsumption-heavy, creating a global population of over-cosumers (which we do not need any more of!) Lastly, but deffinetly not least. Are LDCs contributing to any of our Environmental imperatives? Yes. Being less developed, they lack many necessities we have, such as birth control (to control the size of families). This causes a very rapid population growth, resulting in an increase in poverty. Not only is it a case of poverty, but the number of people who suffer from malnourishment, lack of clean water and shelter as well as overcrowding, AIDS and other serious diseases are increasing steadily.