Post 5 - WIll we have enough resources? - Mayra Galvan Romero

      This article, written by Dennis Dimick for National Geographic, mainly talks about if we have enough resources for our world's population. Right now, we have more than 7 billion people on our Earth. This number can skyrocket to a whopping 10 billion by 2050 -- 30 years from now. This amount of people can be detrimental to the amount of available resources that we may have in the future, such as energy, food supplies, and freshwater that we are able to drink. Will our earth be able to handle having that many people at once?
      The article continues to say that we have been in a 'population boom' for decades now. In 1900, there were 1.6 billion in the world, and by 2000 there were more than 6 billion. By 2011, that number increased to about 7.2 billion as said in the article. My initial thoughts about this is that obviously having more people inhabit our earth means more pollution. I can see why having so many people can be harmful for our earth in more ways than one. I don't really think there is a fix for this, though, unless every country implements a one-child law like China did, but that seems a little unethical to me for some reason...
      Although population keeps rising, I hope we figure a way to extend our resources to be able to keep up with more people on our earth. As the article says, advances in agriculture has helped us with this, and I hope it continues.

Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/9/140920-population-11billion-demographics-anthropocene/#close