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Impact of Human overpopulation on Social systems and the environment.

Date Submitted: 11/17/2004 07:00:21
Category: / Society & Culture / Geography
Length: 2 pages (553 words)
In less than 4 years Tokyo, the world's largest city, will reach a staggering 27 million people. San Paolo, Brazil will reach almost 20 million, and Mexico City will reach 19 million. Sixteen other cities world wide are expected to exceed 10 million inhabitants. The planet is undergoing rapid urbanization, more then half the world's population will reside in heavily urbanized cities by 2007. Massive industrialized cities are not the only major human impact on our planet. The World Book Atlas …
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…dozens of times their recharge rates, and we have embarked on the greatest extinction episode in 65 million years. As capitalism fails in more-and-more countries, these countries will begin to disintegrate, or even conglomerate into larger more powerful countries as they decline. Ultimately it is very likely that natural resources rather than profits will become the most substantial cause of war in the near future. Humanity is fulfilling its own prophecy of apocalyptical doom and destruction.
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