I am a student of history and social sciences at Dana College. My assignment is to construct a web page about the issue of overpopulation. The text that we used for the class was State of the World 1998 . The text and the class both dealt mainly with the area of environmental economics. I found the topic of overpopulation interesting so now I am making a web page devoted to addressing the issue.
Many factors affect the degree of carrying capacity.
These factors include the birth rate and death rate of the species, immigration and emigration, and the conditions of the habitat. When taking a look at the human species, one cannot help but be concerned. We are currently going through many problems that are unprecedented in human history and there is a significant chance that these problems are caused by overpopulation. To fully understand what exactly is the root of the overpopulation problem, one must first look at the rate of population growth. Throughout human history the population of the world had always increased at a very slow rate.