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Summary
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I am SoulLife God. Life is my domain.
Over the past decades, the recent rapid increase in human population has shown that the planet is no longer able to sustain everyone. Many major global problems, such as greenhouse gases, global warming, and pollution, are aggravated by the population expansion. Global Community has declared that the world is overpopulated. Humans are now threatening other species worlwide. The species extinction crisis is out of control as we are losing 40,000 species per year.
We must alert and organise Global Community to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our crises: exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of resources. Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every major global problem we face today.
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Global resources affected by overpopulation
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As human population continue to grow, finite reources such as fossil fuels, phosphorous, grain, fish, freshwater, arable land, coral reefs, forests, and other lifeforms species continue being depleted.
Coastal, forest, grassland, freshwater, global ocean and agricultural ecosystems provide essential goods and services such as climate control, nutrient recycling, production of food, provision of freshwater, storage of atmospheric CO2, maintenance of biodiversity, and provision of tourism opportunities. Freshwater ecosystems include species found in lakes, rivers, and wetlands.
Causes of overpopulation
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The discovery of genetically modified foods and technological advancements brought better means of producing food and increasing agricultural productivity.
Because of more effective solutions to infertility problems, safer pregnancies, and invention of vaccines to defeat diseases in developed nations, there was a decline in mortality rates and global life expectancy at birth got higher.
Due to less birth control and family planning in the illiterate populations of society and cultures, the massive growth in developing nations was, in large part, a consequence of much too high fertility rates, where women during their reproductive years would have an average of 5 children. Social pressures and families from some cultures and religions promoted beliefs and expectations to marry at a young age and to have several children.
Poor government leadership to educate the public and promote policies and strategies that make it easier and more socially acceptable to use contraception and abortion methods, has also been a major factor in creating the overpopulation problem worldwide.
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Effects of overpopulation
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Overpopulation leads to increased levels of tension both between and within countries. Overpopulation may also promote warfare through fear of resources scarcity. Over time, economic and political power were not used as a service to humanity but instead were misused in ruthless battles for domination. And a spirit of compassion with those who suffer, and special care for the children, the aged, the poor, the disabled, and the refugees, were not enough to alleviate the problem of overpopulation and made genuine efforts meaningless.
Greengase emissions have critically lowered the pH in the global ocean causing acidity to rise much to fast for fish life survival. After the global ocean absorbs CO2 and turn it into a carbon acid, this process dissolves the carbonates needed by organisms such as corals, oysters, scallops, snails, mollusks, to build up their shells and skeletons. Eutrophication, created by a much too high quantity of greengase emissions from fossil fuels, is a direct consequence of human activities of an overpopulated planet destroying the environment. Eutrophication makes more depletion of oxygen in the global ocean water, and huge 'dead zones' are created with no life, and thus no shellfish can survive and also, this process greatly reduces the global ocean's ability to support life, which implies less food and fish becomes less edible because of a more polluted ocean water.
Food security becomes more difficult to achieve as resources run out. And that makes today the need to deal with impacts of overpopulation. The need for more food caused the problems of over-grazing and over-farming with misuse of irrigation. By growing more and more crops off the same amount of land, the soil become exhausted so less food can be produced. There has been also a worldwide loss of arable cropland because of more hydroelectric dams construction and wetlands being drained for real estate development.
Freshwater levels are falling worldwide owing to widespread of extracting groundwater of an overpopulated planet beyond sustainable yields, leading to water scarcity and cutbacks in grain harvest, thus driving grain prices upward and creating starvation in developing countries.
World's ecosystems reveal a widespread decline due to increasing resource demands of an overpopulated planet.
Many effects of overpopulation: overfishing, desertification, deforestation, air pollution, erosion, wasteful consumption of resources, deterioration in living conditions, starvation, refugees crisis, malnutrition, human rights losses, lack of freshwater, melting glaciers and Artic ice leading to rising sea levels, ecosystems destruction, urbanization, global warming and climate change causing wild stomrs, tornadoes, cyclones, flooding of agricultural lands, and degradation of the global environmemnt.
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Solutions of overpopulation
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The most effective solution needed to slow down population growth quickly is to invest heavily in female literacy, education programs and family planning services worldwide. No waiting!
Policies and strategies to regulate the number of children allowed to a couple:
a) implement social marketing strategies in order to educate the public on overpopulation effects. Distribute flyers, brochures, fact sheets and stickers in local places of worship, sporting events, local food markets, schools and car parks;
b) educate the public on overpopulation, family planning, birth control methods, and make birth-control devices such as male/female condoms, pills and intrauterine devices easily available;
c) allow easy access to information, affordable means and services so couples can determine the size and spacing of their families;
d) a community-based family planning program;
e) make voluntary contraception available so that women and their families are able to live healthy, productive lives.
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Leadership needed to solve the problem of overpopulation
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Legitimate leadership is an act of service. Those in power must show a primary interest in the good of humanity ahead of their self-interest. They must exert strong global leadership on multinational solutions to pressing health, environmental, overpopulation, and other global problems. We should propose innovative new solutions and show leadership in carrying them out, especially in areas such as clean energy development and overpopulation.
The Global Protection Agency (GPA) provides leadership to citizens worldwide who would like to participate in activities focusing on solving the problem of overpopulation so that we have a ready cadre of people who are trained, equipped, organised and have communications that they can work with each other. As we enact global law, we will begin to take on a much deeper kind of global leadership, one that earns more respect than envy and more gratitude than hatred, one that can catapult the whole planet forward into a future where war is no longer thinkable between nation-states and a legitimate and beneficial global government is able to cope with global problems such as overpopulation.
There are many required characteristics that are prerequisite for legitimate leadership:
1. Legitimate leadership is built upon trust. Those who are led must largely believe that the leader is committed to integrity, honesty, and transparent inquiry into problems. The leader’s actions must align with his words.
2. Legitimate leadership rests upon checks and balances, which are necessary to ensure power is not corrupted.
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3. Legitimate leadership is an act of service. Those in power must show a primary interest in the good of the collective ahead of their self-interest. In this way, true leaders are mission-centered rather than self-centered.
4. Legitimate leadership empowers others appropriately rather than concentrating power disproportionately. In other words, true leaders produce more leaders and empower them as situations demand.
5. Legitimate leadership is visionary, carrying the torch of a possible future.
6. Legitimate leadership is willing to lead by example, including following a foundation of ethics, performing more than one’s share of work, and making sacrifices where appropriate.
7. Legitimate leadership is compassionately fierce when something undermines the good of the whole.
8. Exert strong global leadership on multinational solutions to pressing health, environmental, energy, overpopulation, and the many other global problems. We should propose innovative new solutions and show leadership in carrying them out, especially in areas such as clean energy development and overpopulation.
9. Take seriously the process of coming clean by exposing corporate interests in politics, lobbying by powerful organizations, subsidies of fringe military groups, etc. When our global government officials commit to be honest and transparent, a much deeper foundation of international trust will be built.
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