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**Overpopulation** []
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**Works Cited:**
 "Roman Empire Population." // UNRV History - Roman Empire //. Web. 31 Jan. 2012. <[]>.
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 "Ancient Times." // Http: //library.thinkquest.org/07aug/02111/id12.htm//. Web. 31 Jan. 2012. <[|http://library.**thinkquest.org/07aug/02111/id12.htm**]**>.** //
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. "Human Impact." //National Geographic//. National Geographic Society, n.d. Web. 1 Feb 2012. [].
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**Possible Contacts:**

PAUL EHRLICH (OUT OF OFFICE--CAN'T CONTACT HIM)
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<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">DAVID VOAS (RESPONSE BELOW)
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 * <span style="color: #0bef6c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">How are people around the world trying to stop overpopulation?
 * <span style="color: #0bef6c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">What are the effects of overpopulation?
 * <span style="color: #0bef6c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">How do you think we can solve the overpopulation problem?
 * <span style="color: #0bef6c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">How many countries face the problem of overpopulation?
 * <span style="color: #0bef6c; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">What are the long-term problems of overpopulation?

<span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Rome:

 * <span style="color: #f1af0e; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">500,000 soldiers (legionaries totaling 150,000 and auxiliary for up the rest)
 * <span style="color: #f1af0e; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Approximately 600 Senators made up the highest group
 * <span style="color: #f1af0e; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">About 65 million population
 * <span style="color: #f1af0e; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Perhaps up to 30,000 men filled the roles of knights
 * <span style="color: #f1af0e; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">10% to 30% or 6 million to 19 million people lived in the cities, leaving the vast majority of some 46 to 59 million people to live in the country as independent and mostly tenant farmers
 * <span style="color: #f1af0e; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Rome itself was made up of over 1 million people and, though it shrank a lot after the fall of the west, no city would pass that number until the great urban population booms of the industrial age, many years later
 * <span style="color: #f1af0e; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">The slave population of Rome approached 500,000 on its own, probably half of which were owned by the 600 men of the Senate
 * <span style="color: #f1af0e; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Additional estimates have suggested that of the total 65 million people, 2 to 10 million may have been slaves
 * <span style="color: #f1af0e; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Overpopulation was caused by the massive amount of Romans and non-Romans, who were in Rome because they were willing to work for less, which led to having a shortage of food for the people
 * <span style="color: #f1af0e; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Because the land became overpopulated, thousands were forced to sell their children into slavery
 * <span style="color: #f1af0e; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Rome was one of the first civilizations to deal with overpopulation


 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Now: **
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">The United States is the only industrial country whose population is expected to increase—due largely not to births, but to immigration.
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Nearly 3/5 of the 4.8 billion people in developing countries have no basic sanitation
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Almost 1/3 lack access to clean water.
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">A 1/4 have no adequate housing
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">A 1/5 go without modern health
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">The U.S. is consuming national ecological resources at an unsustainable rate
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">The United States has a national environmental policy but doesn’t have a national population policy


 * <span style="background-color: #c0c0c0; color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Emails: **

<span style="color: #f146dc; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Dear Professor David Voas,

<span style="color: #f146dc; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">My name is Rashmi and I’m a 7th grader from Nagel Middle School. In class, we are learning about Rome and the reasons why it fell. We are each assigned a topic to research and have to figure out what we can do to fix the problem. This is called the Roman Time Machine.

<span style="color: #f146dc; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">My assigned topic is overpopulation. We have to contact experts on the topic and since you are a professor of population studies, I hoped you could answer a few of my following questions:


 * 1) <span style="color: #f146dc; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">What are the long-term problems of overpopulation?
 * 2) <span style="color: #f146dc; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">What is your opinion on how the government can reduce overpopulation?
 * 3) <span style="color: #f146dc; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">How are people around the world trying to stop overpopulation?

<span style="color: #f146dc; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">If you possibly have time to answer my questions, you can get back to me at rashmirege@student.foresthills.edu. Thank you for your time and I hope to hear back from you.

<span style="color: #f146dc; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Sincerely, <span style="color: #f146dc; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Rashmi Rege

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Dear Rashmi, <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Your questions are hard ones, but I'll try to provide short answers. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">1) It's important to distinguish two distinct problems: overpopulation (which implies that the population is larger than the available resourcesand social infrastructure can support), and rapid population growth. It is often the second of these that is the most serious. In parts of Africa and the Middle East, for example, the population is growing too fast for the economy to keep up. The absolute numbers may or may not be a problem.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">With Rome, then, the question would be whether the problem was the total population (which of course would still have been much smaller than a modern city) or its rate of increase out-running the capacity of the city toprovide food, water, sanitation, housing, employment, and so on.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">2) It is difficult for governments to control population without adopting severe policies (for example penalising people who have more than one or two children, or making inwards migration difficult, and so on). More moderate measures (such as making birth control easily available) may or may not be effective. It is generally thought that socio-economic development, which encourages parents to invest in raising and educating a smaller number ofchildren, is ultimately necessary.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">3) Overpopulation is not really a problem that is tackled at an individual level. Some individuals lobby their governments to promote population control policies, but for the most part these debates are conducted among policy-makers.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Good luck with your project. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Best regards, <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">David

<span style="color: #b4b41d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Dear Dr. Paul Ehrlich

<span style="color: #b4b41d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">My name is Rashmi and I’m a 7th grader from Nagel Middle School. In class, we are learning about Rome and the reasons why it fell. We are each assigned a topic to research and have to figure out what we can do to fix the problem. This is called the Roman Time Machine.

<span style="color: #b4b41d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">My assigned topic is overpopulation. I found out that since you wrote the book called “The Population Bomb,” you could hopefully answer a few of my following questions:
 * 1) <span style="color: #b4b41d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">What are the long-term problems of overpopulation?
 * 2) <span style="color: #b4b41d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">What is your opinion on how the government can reduce overpopulation?
 * 3) <span style="color: #b4b41d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">How are people around the world trying to stop overpopulation?

<span style="color: #b4b41d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">If you possibly have time to answer my questions, you can get back to me at rashmirege@student.foresthills.edu. Thank you for your time and I hope to hear back from you.

<span style="color: #b4b41d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Sincerely,

<span style="color: #b4b41d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Rashmi Rege

<span style="color: #1feaea; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Immediate Response: (Paul R. Ehrlich, via an autoresponder)

<span style="color: #1feaea; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">I will be partially out of touch for the current quarter. If you needinformation relative to the MAHB (see the web site at []), please contact MAHB's Executive Director JoanDiamond (diamondjm@comcast.net), although high enthusiasm for the project may delay an answer. In any case I may not be able to reply to your mailregarding

<span style="color: #1feaea; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Overpopulation

<span style="color: #1feaea; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">If there is an emergency please contact my assistant, Ms. Janet Elder(jelder@stanford.edu) at 650-723-3171.