User:Lvillegas10/Human impact on the environment

David Attenborough described the level of human population on the planet as a multiplier of all other environmental problems. In 2013, he described humanity as "a plague on the Earth" that needs to be controlled by limiting population growth.

There have been many ways that humans have effected the planet we live on, and for the most part they aren't so positive.There have been many ways that humans have effected the planet we live on, and for the most part they aren't so positive. Survival used to mean repopulating. That, however, is quickly becoming true for the opposite as we reach the maximum carrying capacity that our planet can sustain. Overpopulation has grown into an epidemic since mortality rates have decreased, medicine has improved, and methods of industrial farming were introduced, thus keeping humans alive for much longer and increasing the total population. It seems as if populating the planet was once what we wanted but with time that was a mistake and now we can’t reverse time. Overpopulation is causing dangerous effects to the planet, not enough food for everyone, not enough living space, there are only so much resources that not everyone will be able to survive.