My Modest Proposal

The Problem with Population

Amelia Maloney

Comic Spirit  E

            The world population is constantly growing and is just going to keep growing because so many people are being added to the world.  The problem with population is that there are not enough resources to go around for the growing population, as well as the number of jobs not matching up with the number of people.  There are different ideas to solve the growing population, but do not seem to be working, such as trying to expand the number of resources, educating adults on family planning, and keeping the population numbers to be at a sustainable number.  My idea of solving the population problem is to make sure that the maximum number that adults have is three children, and if they have more, the extra child or children will be sent to a bio dome in Antarctica where they can will take part in a challenging contest.  This seems like a cruel idea, but this will help decrease the population in increments by sending away the extra children. 

            Some families are having more than three children and that is just adding to the growth of the population.  With this idea of sending the extra children away to a less populated location, the families will have less stress as well as decreasing the population.  China was strict about the one child rule, but is now considering relaxing that rule and allowing families to have two children.  This is being considered because the population is becoming unbalanced and this rule has been in effect for three decades.  My environmental science class learned about population control and China was a country of discussion.  Having only two children in China will keep the population in balance; and having the three child rule in America will have the same results. 

            Having too many children will result in economical problems for families.  A family with more than three children will have problems with money and will their children will be forced to suffer.  You would not want to be a fourth or fifth child born into a poor family and have to suffer.  That child would have to walk to school barefoot and would not have anything to enjoy because they are the last child into that family.  That child would wish that they had never been born because of how much they are suffering through, and with this proposal, that child would never have to suffer because of their poor conditions.  There would be no suffering children, and the population would be decreased, or at least stay in balance.

            I learned about the problem with population growth in depth as a part of my environment class.  I learned that mostly developing countries suffer because of population issues and there are many effects due to the problem.  With a large population, resources are becoming scarce and there will not be enough to support the growing number of people at some point in time.  This is a reasonable proposal because after learning about population issues, I realized that the number of people is going to continue to grow, causing more problems. 

            Once the children are in the bio dome, they will be introduced to the contest that they will be taking part in.  The contest, which will include singing and dancing, and also televised, will determine whether or not they will be returning back to their families.  The number of contestants will be decreased every week, leaving the final number of contestants to be three.  Those three will then compete to be in the top two, and then those two people will return back to their families.  The judges will be the adults who are in charge of running the bio dome, and they will be the ones choosing the fate of the top two members.  The losing members will be considered as unimportant and will be forced to stay in the bio dome, where they will live controlled lives until their deaths.

            This contest is branching off of my proposal and will be an entertaining way of decreasing the population.  The extra children of the population will be sent away, and only one child will be sent back every few years.  This will help the population be decreased, or at least stay in balance, which will stabilize the number of resources.  Sending the children away may seem cruel, but there is an entertaining part to this modest proposal.  I think that this is a good idea because it will be decreasing the population as well as providing entertainment to fellow viewers.