World Lacks Enough Food, Fuel as Population Soars: U.N.

The article, "The world lacks enough food, as population soars" reported by UN deals, with very sensitive issue that needs immediate attention. The focus of the article is to demonstrate how the world rapid growing population will be link to a decrease in food, energy, and water by the year 2040 if not earlier. In addition, the article suggested that if the population continues to grow without addressing the problem by implementing sustainable development action then we would take the risk condemning up to 3 billion people onto poverty. After reading this article my question is, what does this mean for less developed countries? How did we get here? Moreover, what can be done to alleviate this potential catastrophe?

This article qualifies for a developing topic because it shed light on serious issues that could potentially mean the end for the population of less developing countries if the problem is not address immediately. There are so many people living without enough to eat or clean water to drink presently and the implication of not having enough food, water, and natural resources in the future for people that is presently living in dire condition seems too much to fathom. The world lacking enough food to feed its people will almost seems like committing a natural genocide cleansing of the poor because while everyone will be affected the outcome of death, diseases, and starvation will be greater for less developing countries.

As stated by the articles the world's population is expected to grow to nearly 9 billion in 2040 from 7 billion now, and as population increase, middle-class consumers' increases and the demand for resources will rise exponentially. So, what does this mean? As countries experience economic growth and economic development, population began to increase there is a constant demand for more food, more water, and more energy but nothing has been done to restock the earth's reservoirs and food sources.

At this moment, the population is rapidly growing and there are more than 20 million people undernourished and as the number rises, the forest is shrinking, fish stock is depleting, and carbon dioxide is rising. We need to bear in mind that once they are gone, they are gone for good and there is no way to replenish the earth's supply. Looking at the fact is there anything that can be done to reverse this path of doom or is the world definitely running out of time to make sure will be enough food, water and energy for future generations?

In my opinion, it is not too late to fix the problem. If each of us starts by doing our part to reduce our carbon footprint, plant a tree, use less water, and recycle then we might be able to sustain the earth's resources. On a wider scale, we should be implementing sustainable development to try alleviating this problem before it is too late.

In closing, we cannot risk condemning millions of people into poverty because