own people. A big effect of cropland shortage is migration. People who can no longer live in an area that doesnt provide enough food leave and move to either urban areas or other farmlands where it has yet to meet its limits. This migration drives poverty even more and also increases the chances for destructive conflict between people.The third part of the begging of the end for human growth is pollution. Air pollution, land pollution, and water pollution are all taking abundant resources and making them scarce. Smog, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and various other airborne chemicals are slowly taking clean air away. Clean water is becoming harder to find naturally. Once again the developing countries, the one who need water treatment plants, can not afford them, leaving the people to drink water full of toxins, bio-waste, and deadly pathogens. Finally land pollution is astronomical. The US itself accounts for 25% of the waste in the world and it only holds 6% of the worlds population. Not only waste contributes to land waste, land degradation also contributes to overpopulation. Land once full of life sustaining minerals and resources have been destroyed by deforestation and desertification, rendering them inhabitable and pushing people closer together. In the end, damage has been done so extensively we can only hope to control the situation. Optimistically, we as humans can hope technology can somehow find a way to keep sustainable resources and to increase the carrying capacity of the earth. However, if the technology did present itself, the countries that need it most would not be able to afford it. The only key to controlling the spin overpopulation has placed the earth in is through education. Education in family planning, education in eco-friendly practices, and educating minds to help solve the problems that we have created basically in the last 100 years are our only hope....
