Overpopulation Overpopulation has been recognized as a problem since the late eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century, William Stanley Jevrons showed that the rate of increased energy consumption was exponential to population growth. In effect, energy consumption is an exponential rate of an exponential rate. Currently our major energy source is oil, which is a finite source. How much do we have left? No one knows. The current known supply will last us 20 years. Discoveries …
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…able to have an equal amount of jobs, shelter, food, and other necessities to meet the needs of all the people that we will have to have in our country. We need to conserve the things that we do have so when the time comes to use them we will have replenished more to meet our population needs. This does not go to say that we will probably still produce more than we can handle.