Environmental Studies

Running Head : Environmental Studies

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Environmental Studies

Global Environmental Change - The Reduction in the Population of the world

The population of the world has been on an upward trend for the most part of the past many years . The rapid rise in the population in the past had been attributed to factors like improved medical care and good nutrition . However , the statistics appear to be changing as the 21st century wears on . There has been recorded a decrease in the

overall global population growth rate such that although there is still a growth in the population , the rate is reducing . However , the rate is not evenly distributed . Instead , only the developed nations where industrialization and modernity are advanced are experiencing the population slowdown . The developing World still has rising rates of population growth (I .R .C 2005

The reduction in the growth rate can be attributed to climatic changes that have in turn caused people to resort to There has been a lot of destruction to the atmosphere and the resultant effect has been that some of the plants and animals that were useful for improving the immunity of the people when included in the diet are now extinct . Global warming has killed many such plant and animal species and the other effects have been that there is an increase in strange previously uncommon diseases caused by climatic changes which are making more people to die faster...