Environmental Issue

I feel as though one of the environmental issues that could contribute to the need for an "island civilization" is the rapidly increasing human population. The earth simply cannot support over seven billion people with the limited amount of resources that it has. Much of the technology that humans have created has led to global warming which is very harmful to the environment. Also, the growing human population is causing a lot of deforestation and habitat loss for a very large amount of other organisms. It’s not right for humans to be so selfish and to feel as though they are better and more deserving of the “wilderness” than the other types of organisms. In previous classes I’ve learned that population growth is the most in developing nations and these nations typically don’t have all of the resources that they need in order to survive. I feel as if many other countries, even developed nations, get to the point of a huge overpopulation, they won’t have a sufficient amount of resources either. Overall, I feel as though if the human population growth were limited, the environment would clear up drastically in more ways than one. 

"The Interaction of Population Growth and Environmental Quality"