forests and natural habitats of animals. By 1997 the worlds forests were for the first time, loosing more carbon than they were absorbing (202). Public awareness and concern for environmental issues need to be integrated into everyday living so, the remaining numbers of plants and animal species continue to exist. Its crucial we act now as continued extinction of species is a loss no future can cure. When trying to correct the imbalance created by man, science, and technology, we who have inherited the earth must be adamant about developing cleaner ways of improving productivity, and developing better methods for prevention of births, the root of overpopulation. On average family size has decreased almost by half from approximately six children per woman in the late 1960s to three per woman in the late 1990s (216). Contraceptive technologies are becoming more accessible, affordable, and more widely accepted. Unavailability or access to family planning services and education, continue to exist in many parts of the world. Presently, throughout the developing world, women are having smaller families than their mothers, due to access of birth control pills, condoms, and diaphragms along with methods of sterilization consisting of tubal lingation for women or vasectomy for men. Even under the low-growth conditions, human numbers will continue to climb for many years, at a slowing rate. An early halt to human population growth will not end human-caused extinctions. If, we continue to over-exploit resources and pollute our environment the world will be an uninhabitable planet for future generations. The purpose of this paper is to help promote awareness, and focus on the circle of problems contributing to the destruction of the planet (571)....
