This is a chapter that I really did not know a lot until I started reading it and I think it is something that people should be more aware of since we are talking about earth and our existence. The first topic that caught my eye was overpopulation. I once heard a friend of mine who was a biology teacher say that he didn’t want to have kids because there were too many people in the world already, and I guess he was right. This is something that I never thought about but according to this chapter based on our resources and the way that we are also contaminating the world it makes it impossible to survive in 100 years. I think the most surprising of this overpopulation was when the chapter mentions how we would need to planets to meet the demand by 2030 which is literally in ten years.
The second interesting topic that is actually related with overpopulation was the recommendations on how to decrease the number of birth and it all comes to education. More than ever, there is a lot of unprotected sex and pregnancy in teenagers. However, if high schools take a bigger responsibility in educating kids about sex and the cautions that we should take to avoid not only pregnancy but also sexual transmitted diseases. I also found interested how educated woman are more likely to have less kids. I think even though most people want to have kids because they like the idea of creating and taking care of a person, a lot of people, especially those with lower education and economic status have more than one kid by accident, this is why most third world countries have 5+ families while wealthier and more educated family have one or maybe two kids.
The last thing I really liked and I think I will try to follow as much as I can is the “Skills for Behavior Change”. I think there was a lot of things that I never even noticed until I read it like the packaging on the food. I think bringing my own reusable bag and being a better planner when it comes to food shopping it is an awesome idea. I think sometimes we go food shopping without a list and buy things just because and end it up putting it in the trash which it is just a waste of money as well as resources. Even though I will more likely won’t follow the cleaning strategies of avoiding caustic cleanser, I think it is really interesting how even those things can affect our environment.
Environmental Health 