Effects of population growth.
(Syed Mujtaba Hussain, karachi)
Pakistan's population continues
to grow at an alarming rate. The adverse effects of a growing population include
environmental degradation, air and land traffic congestion, pollution of all
kinds, water shortages, soaring urban housing costs, increased crowding, loss of
prime agricultural land, and social stress. Our land area is quickly consumed as
more people require more space to live, work and play.
As population grows , taxes increase in order to maintain social services and
education , and to continually add costly infrastructure such as schools,
hospitals, prisons, roads, and system for the disposal of sewage and other
waste.
The quality of our daily lives deteriorates as population grows; over-population
both worsens and frustrates attempts to solve, social maladies such as crime,
psychological stress and homelessness. We must all stop and think about this.