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The population boom of China was realized back in 1978. China started to initiate a population

plan in order not to over populate the land. It worked and by 1980 300 million births had been

prevented. But that is when China realized that it wanted to become a super industrialized power

just like the United States and Europe. What they never realized was the consequences on the

environment and the billions of people that live on this earth.

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The negative long term effects on the environment are reaching a non reversible status. Since

the forests are being rapidly exterminated to accommodate the increasing population, the issue

of animal population not having a place to flourish and develop is rapidly rising which is

creating a misbalance on the Earths ecosystem. Waste management is one of the pressing

matters that needs to be solved rather fast.

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The ozone layers constant weakening keeps on exacerbating the harsh weather phenomena

which ultimately ends up costing billions of dollars globally. All of the money directed

towards repairing environmental issues caused by humans could have been be directed towards

managing population control and its well being.

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The stakeholders involved in Population = Poverty are the United Nations (UN) and the

United States (US). The basis for the UN claims lay in the fact that the US is per capita the

most wasteful country in the world. The UN claims that if nothing is done about the

population of third world countries and the wastefulness of the industrialized countries then

the world as we know it is doomed to end. The end of the world dispute stems from the UN

funded reports that state there are not enough resources for the expanding population.

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In an attempt to mitigate the ongoing increase growth in population the United Nations (UN)

funds family-planning and HIV prevention measure programs. The UN is also an advocate of

woman’s right to choose and therefore supports abortion procedures in countries where it is

legal. The UN even recommended contraceptive advice and sex education at every grade level.

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The US claim that they are not responsible for the upcoming cataclysmic event, it is the

developing third world countries new industrialization. The US claims those countries have an

uncontrolled population growth and should not become industrialized because the world cannot

sustain the use of resources by those countries. Also the US cannot curve their way of life

because it will have a devastating effect on their economy.

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The US also has not assisted with UN campaigns dealing with woman’s right to choose and

contraceptives as part of the population reducing efforts in developing counties. The US social

perspective is a Pro-Life stand and therefore has held payments to the UN of their support of

family planning clinics. The US has also held up foreign-operation Bills demanding a guarantee

that no assistance will go to agencies or countries that advocate abortion.

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A. Environmental Theory by Florence Nightingale• Uses the concept of nursing in environment – good environmental management and

resource utilization• Define human beings in relation to the environment• Relates whatever surrounds human being to his state of health• She identified five environmental factors; pure water, fresh air, cleanliness or

sanitation, efficient drainage and lightB. Critical Environmental Theory by Richard Kahn

• Focus on the relationship between nature’s dominance and advanced industrial power

• Looks into resistance posed by several environmental groups as they attempt to understand evolution of environmental movements

• Critical theorists debate and present the case of dualism between natural and social sciences as well as human and nonhuman species

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The following is the influence of the Theories and Ethics.

• The first theory has given Nightingale a chance to compare nursing of a patient to nurturing or taking care of the environment

• She presents the role man has in taking conserving environmental resources.

• This way, she asserts that man takes care of the environment because its condition affects him in several ways

• Have given the critical theorist a chance to compare industrial power with nature’s dominance

• It has ignited in them a need to critically assess the way the influence of different environmental groups on environmental resources

• It also makes them make rational analysis of the symbiotic relationship between human and nonhuman species

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The United Nations has chosen to support birth control methods and sex education as its means

of controlling the population growth. Now it must lead the fight to support those programs and

convince the world leaders to follow in their belief through funding and education. They are also

trying to convince the industrialized countries to start looking at sustainable energy and reduce

waste.

 

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The United States has chosen a different position on the premise that birth control is murder.

That positon is supported by not funding programs in any country that will use those funds in

part of whole for birth control. The United States has chosen to push GMO’s to help the world’s

population and eliminate pesticides and other harmful chemicals. Some of these super resistant

plants are not only predator resistant but also drought resilient.

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The following describes how the some of the issue have been or should be resolved.

Job Training

• Job creation initiative from both the private and public sectors could significantly impact the poverty rate. In order to reduce the poverty rate, the jobs created must pay middle class wages. Minimum wage job creation may help to lower the unemployment rate, but these jobs don't lift families out of the depths of poverty.

Creation

• Creating job training programs to teach workers the skills needed to find employment can also help address the poverty problem. Individuals who rely on government services and public assistance need job training programs that match workers with emerging enterprises in need of qualified employees. In addition, job retraining can help older workers who find themselves suddenly unemployed. Many older workers have to learn new skills suited for 21st century businesses in order to find work.

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C. Education

• Education can help to uplift the economic circumstances of any individual. The days of large numbers of

available jobs in the manufacturing, service, and construction industries have ended. Many routine

production jobs and customer service jobs now reside overseas.

• The school system needs to train students to compete in high-demand fields like math and science.

Experts predict that job growth over the next few decades in great careers like engineering and

information technology will continue to increase. Our secondary and post-secondary schools must

prepare students for the emerging workforce. Targeted education, along with incentives for companies to

employ U.S. citizens can help keep more jobs in the US and help provide jobs for new college graduates.

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D. Apprenticeships

• Apprenticeship needs to become more popular in the United States to fill job

openings in technical fields. Individuals who pick up a trade or vocation can find

employment that enables them to lift themselves up out of poverty.