The Weight of the World: Overpoluation on Planet Earth

According to the World census, as of 2012 there are seven billion people on planet Earth. Currently the weight of the population is relatively close to 300 million tons. All seven billion are contributing to an ever evolving world such as: technologically, medically, socially, and economically. Unfortunately having such luxuries at our fingertips it is only natural to take things like electricity and even water for granted, we are not looking at what will happen in the long run as a result of everyone using these things at their own personal leeway. In some places birth rates are very high as it is in Africa, which has the highest birth rates in the world, mostly due to lack of family planning knowledge and safe sex awareness. Interestingly, the growth from six to seven billion people things have actually slowed a bit, but that doesn’t mean they won’t pick back up again maybe very soon. And with that fact some argue that overpopulation and over depletion of natural resources won’t be a big issue in the future. But the bigger question we seem to be facing is whether or not humanity r…