The boiling frog theory on population

Population Control: Read the article “The Boiling Frog Theory” and provide a response to the author’s message concerning the relationship between food availability and population growth.  What do  you think about the population and its contribution to the spread of Covid-19 over the past few months. 

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The boiling frog theory on population

In this theory, the author believes that the availability of foods contributes directly to population growth and vice versa. He believes that in the early years, the way of life contributed significantly to population control, and chances of having a population outflow were low. According to this theory, the birth of Agriculture ten years ago brought humanity this problem of population growth in ways and speed that has proven to have adverse and dangerous effects. The history of humankind shows that there were no distress signs in the initial years of discovery, and life was quiet. Still, later on, in the second half, symptoms started appearing gradually. The author mainly blames totalitarian Agriculture, which led to the conversion of each available space of land for food production. This style of Agriculture led to the creation of large surplus food for human consumption, the phenomenon that, according to the author, started and has contributed significantly to the continuation of the boil. The author uses mice that are locked in a cage and provided with different portions of food sufficient to support a particular desired number of their population. In this example, he implies that a proportionate increase in food will lead to a corresponding increase in the population and vice versa. The author believes that no other intervention is necessary to control the human population apart from control in food production to regulate the population to the desired number. The author uses the available data to show the human population’s responsiveness to food availability by showing the relationship between population growth in the past three million years and in the last ten thousand years. In the years before the most recent ten thousand years, the population grew at a glacial rate, and there was no threat of overrunning the earth. The fact that there is a threat of an overrun in population in only over ten thousand years a phenomenon that was not experienced in the previous three million years before the discovery of Agriculture shows that this discovery contributed to the overwhelming growth in population. Data shows that the development of a peculiar Agricultural form, which made food available in large quantities led to doubling of the population in less than three thousand years, followed by another doubling in the following two thousand years and huge growth in population has continued to be witnessed as food production increased.

Presently, there has been an unprecedented increase in the population that has seen the world support more than six billion people, which is becoming unsustainable. The human population growth has been unsustainably high, which has contributed to the crowding of people who are competing for resources that are, on the other hand, dwindling. The human population has played a great role in spreading the coronavirus infections and has continued the spread of the virus exponentially due to the population density around the globe. The fact that the virus outbreak started in Wuhan, a megacity in China with over 11 million people, meant that close contact between humans was inevitable, hence the quick spread of the virus. Many foreign nationalities from all over the world travel to and from Wuhan with very close interactions, considering the significant number of people who live in the city. The population density across the globe has led to congestions and close human proximity in workplaces, schools, hospitals, and in every other social amenity, a fact that increases the risk of a virus spreading rapidly and extensively. Huge human populations globally have breached physical gaps. The dense population has contributed significantly to the global spread. It is inevitable to avoid problems that occur elsewhere as the amount of travel and relationships between nations has been forced to become closer compared to the past. 

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