Journal 10- Overpopulation Article

I found an excellent journal entry from JSTOR about the topic I am researching and arguing, overpopulation. It was an article written in Population and Environment (a science journal dealing with the environment) by J. Anthony Cassils in January 2004 entitled "Overpopulation, Sustainable Development, and Security: Developing an Integrated Strategy." Cassils did a fantastic job of introducing the issue and how as wonderful as medical advances have been to mankind, they have put the globe in a major crisis of exceeding sustainable restrictions the planet has. He argues strongly that all around the world, short sighted political agenda's have clouded the dire necessity to address the ever increasing population. In fact, he blames the countless groups entangled in politics for fostering population growth for altruistic gains and not seeing the consequences of exploding our population, ultimately leading to the implosion of the species. He showed how already the population is showing signs of instability, with depleting resources, massive famine, and malnutrition. He contends all governments must take control of their people and set up a division to responsibly harbor population growth in their boarders (including stricter immigrant limits). With all nations working on this, it will benefit the globe immensely. He feels the biggest problems will come form underdeveloped countries lacking government and where populations grow fastest and starvation kills most. So developed nations are suppose to set an example and lead the world in this curbing of a population explosion, yet special interest groups seem to deter overpopulation-fighters' goals. As great as he illustrates the need for response to help overpopulation, he also provides what he thinks what is the correct route to control the problem. He feels the surer path is similar to the Chinese governments implication of one child per couple legislation. He feels governments must remove incentives for families to have more children. I loved the article, I hope mine is as informational and powerful, but I do hope to provide more helpful and insightful solutions rather than this writing which is more used to highlight exigence. I will however definitely use his statistics to portray the global dilemma to audiences and I also plan to use the solutions he credited and I will also take his account of the inhibitors on overpopulation legislation and likely re-blame them in my paper as well.

Cassils, Anthony J. "Overpopulation, Sustainable Development, and Security: Developing an Integrated Strategy." Population and Enviornment 25.3 (2004): 171-94. JSTOR. Springer. Web. 5 Nov. 2010. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/27503878?&Search=yes&term=Overpopulation&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DOverpopulation%26x%3D0%26y%3D0%26wc%3Don%26acc%3Don&item=13&ttl=10475&returnArticleService=showFullText>.