"What's Your Number?" Reflection

"What's Your Number?" Reflection

                Today in class Iearned more about population. One of the things that I have learned about it was that if the Crude Death Rate (CDR) decreases but the Crude Birth Rate (CBR) increases, it has a negative impact. It has a negative impact because it would increase the population of a country rapidly and the carrying capacity will not be sufficient. Also I learned that replacement-level fertility is when the amount of offsprings a couple has, is to replace one of them when they die. 

                 In my own honest opinion I do truly believe that we are TOO overpopulated overall. But I do not believe that we should have an "only one child" policy or similarly to that like what China did because it is the own people's rights whether or not they should have as many as sixteen (kind of over exaggerating now even though it is accurately true) children or to have one or none. I also do not agree, if ever, someone created an idea where we should basically just kill elders. I do not agree with this because if YOU were an elder, you would not want to die just because the world is overpopulated. You would want to see your grandchildren and bond with them. So in total I am more on the side where birth rates should decrease. If we do not decrease our population then resources like food would perish slowly. 

My number: 

When I was born I was the 5,968,509,397th person alive on earth.

81,453,757,294th person to have lived since history began.