What are the benefits / problems of high population?

Question

I'm doing a population article about population ad i'm halfway done and now i'm brain dead :P

Please help !!!

Answer 1

It would help us help you better if you mentioned what your article contains or what it doesnt contain.

Answer 2

We do not really know what a high population is except in the sense that the population is barely able to feed itself should there be a drought or crop failure.

If we see a population stacked up in giant apartments is it a high population? Or will that be a high population when it doubles again?

We know that all that sustains a population is out in the farm field or on the high seas. Little of the work done in large cities materially contributes to feeding the people. So what happens is that large concentrations of population typically means large cities that can not feed themselves.

This, and not just the size of the population, contibutes to the fragile life dependencies of large populations. When things go bad in the farm, the dependent population is not available to pick insects off plants, hoe the soil to prevent it from baking, remove weeds competing with the crops. There might be enough manpower hidden away in cities if it were deployed, but city people will say 'that is the farmer's problem' until it is too late for this season's crop.

When things go wrong we may need all of the population working to put it right. But organizing large populations to make it happen? It takes a much hated Mao to accomplish that, and even he got it wrong.

Small, sparse populations almost always mean the land has not sustained a larger population, and may never. But we should not think that larger population brings security. Rather security brings larger population and often population collapse.

Answer 3

There are problems and gifts from having a high population.  The bad:

Overcrowding, spread of disease, less jobs, little to bad housing choices, pollution, lack of food.

Now the good.  Having a large population of people, if done and treated right, and not by stupid corrupt governments, can have a giant positive effect.  Done well, a large population creates an industrial base that accelerates technological advances.   Seems to me, the smaller the population, the lesser the advances.  In ancient times through the middle ages, even up through the 1700's.

As we grew as a population, the ideas began to come about, some were ridiculous but they still paved the way for more realistic and successful ideas.  Someone always gets an idea to make something better, improve something, or invent something entirely different.  Someone out there has the answers to cures and perhaps space travel.

Answer 4

High populations equals less employment opportunities, more pollution, dirtier cities, crowded cities and areas.

Answer 5

In class the other day we learned about population problems in China how there was a 1 child policy for 1 couple & if u would have more than 1 child you would get fined, lose your job, lose your house, socialy denied, etc. If you followed the law you could get a raise, better house, etc. Because there population was getting to high & there were having a shortage on food & other stuff.