Essay #319 "Population Explosion" 05.12.18 In recent decades with the development of technology and medicine people’s lives has been drastically increased in their quality and longevity. This has created quite a strange problem of overpopulation in some regions. As a result, this causes a highly negative effect on the environment and jeopardizes future of our planet. First of all, the main concern in not the actual number of people who are living on the planet, but limited resources which should be shared amongst them. With such explosive growth of population and increasing rates of birth we can expect in several decades that every human will be affected by this problem. We already witness drastic decrease of ecological state, unemployment, famine and the plain lack of parking lots. However, while some countries try to harness their birth rates and even fine or tax people who have many children, others by contrast try to encourage people to have two or more kids. This fact creates additional problems as this problem cannot be solved with such approach and overall population of the planet proceeds to grow. Only centralization of the effort in order to solve this issue can help this situation. One of the possible solutions to this problem is to devise the program of the relocation and population of deserted areas. This will not only mitigate this issue, but also allow people to master new wild territories. This is not the most perfect solution, but this can quite quickly change the situation to better. To conclude, in spite of the fact that new technology has risen people’s living standards and prolonged their lives, this has created another issue, namely overpopulation. This is a quite serious problem which affects every person on the planet and can be solved only by mutual collaboration of the whole world. Only by paying attention to this problem it will be possible to avoid its negative effect and not to face global catastrophe, because of the lack of resources, in several decades.