Natalie G10 IEP #5 Mr. deGroof My persuasive essay Today, the population is getting larger and larger, elder people living longer and longer, people give birth to more and more children, and that’s the cause of overpopulation. Overpopulation is one of the world’s biggest problems; it causes the poor getting more and more poor. The resources remain less due to so many people using them. Additionally, because of so many people in the world, the environment is getting wasted. We should find some ways like family planning or give people more education to solve this problem. One of the reasons that cause overpopulation might be the lack of education. There might be more human resources for having so many children, and having so many people in a family might be helpful for doing works. But the more people we have, that means the more we have to pay for their living. Family planning is one of the solutions to overpopulation. Many governments now sponsor family planning. If governments make laws or rules implement, In my opinion, the government should make a law to control each family to have under Natalie G10 IEP #5 Mr. deGroof a maximum of kids. If the law truly exists, I think the overpopulation problem will be well-controlled. Another solution to overpopulation might be to give people sex education. People now think it’s not necessary to have education about sex. But the truth is it’s extremely serious! There are some courses about this now, but it isn’t professional and it’s always secondary! I think that “sex education” shall be a mandatory subject in school because we undoubtedly have to be aware of how serious it is. Although family planning can control birth, it may not help to solve the problem from the roots, although sex education helps people to understand what sex is about, there are still a lot of people who dislike school and don’t listen to class. So, to improve the economy might be the better way. Overpopulation can’t be easily controlled. Mainland China used to implement family planning, one family can only raise one child. It didn’t work, the family planning failed. Overpopulation is a monumental problem now, people shall be aware of this big problem. The society should take effective Natalie G10 IEP #5 Mr. deGroof steps to solve this problem, to control birth or other ways to make this problem under control.