UNITED INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

COURSE CODEAN: URC1101

COURSE TITLE: LIFE SKILL FOR SUCCES
ASSIGNMENT ON:
“Identifying problems for overpopulation in Dhaka city and providing it
solutions”
SUBMITTED TO:
Jakowan
Assistant Professor & Assistant Provost

SUBMITTED BY:
GOAL DIGGERS

Submission Date:
14 Sep 2022

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Group Members:
1.Ariful Islam Rafi
ID:111222098
SECTION: R

2.Abdulllah Ismail Chowdhury

ID:111222107
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3.MD. Shafiul Alam

ID:111222076
SECTION: R

4.Mostofa Asad
ID:111221190
SECTION: R

5.Alvee Islam
ID:111222114
SECTION: R

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 INDEX
Serial no: Particulars Page No.
01. Cover page 01
02. Introducing group members 02

03. Introduction of Overpopulation 04

04. Short Explanation about overpopulation in Dhaka City, 04

country and world at large.

05. Impact of Overpopulation in Dhaka City 05-06

06. BANGLADESH POPULATION2022 DATA 06

07. Causes of overpopulation 06-10

08. Effect of overpopulation on the country 10-12

09. Effect of overpopulation on the world 12-14

10. Solution 14-16

11. Positive impact of overpopulation 17

12. conclusion 17

13. Experience of group Members While Making the 18-20

Documentary
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 • Introduction of Overpopulation:
The term overpopulation refers to the surpassing of particular population
density thresholds when natural resources fail to fulfill the needs of individual
creatures in terms of shelter, sustenance, and so on. It results in a high risk of
death and morbidity.
▪ Many of the world's tiny islands and isolated governments have huge
populations in comparison to their size. The five most densely
inhabited areas are Macao, Monaco, Singapore, Hong Kong, and
Gibraltar. Singapore has over 8,000 people per square kilometer,
which is more than 200 times denser than the United States and 2000
times denser than Australia.
▪ Bangladesh has the highest population density among the bigger
countries1, with 1,252 persons per square kilometer, about three times
that of its neighbor, India. Lebanon (595), South Korea (528), the
Netherlands (508) and Rwanda (495 per km2) round up the top five.

• Short Explanation about overpopulation in Dhaka City, country and

world at large.

Overpopulation is a key contributor to the majority of the world's issues. Every

country in the world is impacted - or will be affected - by food shortages, a lack of
drinking water, or energy constraints. Any country may sustain its own wellbeing in
part due to the import of commodities from other countries. However, this cannot
continue indefinitely. In reality, the population of every country is increasing. The
global population is expected to reach 8 or 10 billion in the next decades. There's a
significant likelihood that more and more nations will require their own goods. No
more than 2 billion people on our globe can enjoy a standard of living equivalent to
that of the European Union. With a population of 8 to 10 billion people, global
welfare per person will be equivalent to that of a poor farmer who can barely raise
enough food for himself and has no concept of wellbeing. As a result, in order to
avoid disagreements or violence, we will have to divide everything equitably. The
climate is changing, and it makes little difference whether this is due to human
activities or changes in the solar system. A small rise in sea level is all that is required

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 for a large amount of productive agricultural land to vanish. At the moment, we
appear to believe that we can avoid starvation by using artificial fertilizers, brutal
animal breeding, and other survival techniques. Humans have an insatiable need for
more and greater comfort. The global population of automobiles and refrigerators is
rapidly rising before our own eyes. However, there will come a point when population
increase and wellbeing will collide. There is a significant likelihood that floods of
people will travel all over the planet in quest of more food and shelter. Technicians
are only too willing to point to technology that holds the answers to all of our issues.
Unfortunately, technological solutions have failed to significantly reduce global
hunger. War and bloodshed appear to be unavoidable when there is no global
acknowledgment or resolution of problems: everyone wants to survive. The only
option is to implement a global population policy. This website offers you with
articles, films, and photos from around the world that explain what overpopulation is
and why a population policy is vital in each language and, when feasible, by nation.
Unfortunately, any debate of overpopulation or population policy is typically frowned
upon. The economic world and religions are primarily concerned with population
expansion. Allowing aid to dwindle is sometimes as tough for the wealthy as leaving
poverty is for the destitute. Furthermore, the growth paradigm continues to dominate
global thinking about remedies to the difficulties outlined above.

▪ Impact of Overpopulation in Dhaka City:

Nearly 8% of jobs in Bangladesh are centered in Dhaka, and 40% are concentrated in
the broader Dhaka region, which includes the towns of Gazipur and Narayanganj.
According to a new study, the high concentration of people and economic activity in
the capital is having a detrimental influence on the national economy. According to
the report, Dhaka has 31.9 percent of Bangladesh's urban population, while the
country's big cities with over a million residents have just 3.5 percent of the urban
population. Dhaka's population has grown by more than 50% in the recent decade.
Due to the excessive concentration of resources and economic activity in the city,
Bangladesh's per capita income and GDP were 11 percent lower than their potential in
2017. The GDP loss as a result of this was USD 35 billion in 2019. Bangladesh is
currently losing 6-10% of its GDP because Dhaka's growth rate has exceeded the
optimal pace—a considerable loss. That simply goes to demonstrate how long the

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massive population load that Dhaka is now bearing.

BANGLADESH POPULATION 2022 DATA

❖ Causes of overpopulation

Over the course of the past 50 years, the number of inhabitants on the planet has detonated.
Presently there are very nearly 8 billion individuals in the world and this number is projected
to fill in a brief time of time. Of each of the ecological difficulties confronting the planet
today overpopulation is one that occasionally sneaks by the radar. Issues like contamination,
environmental change, and water deficiencies all appear to come first, yet overpopulation is
one of the primary supporters of numerous other natural issues. Overpopulation will put
extraordinary expectations on assets and land, prompting far reaching natural issues as well
as affecting worldwide economies and ways of life. Discussions about overpopulation can
immediately become disputable in light of the fact that they make one wonder: Who precisely
is the reason for the issue and what, assuming anything ought to be finished about it? Reasons
for overpopulation are different for some nations however are generally connected with
neediness, decreased death rates, unfortunate clinical access, unfortunate prophylactic use, as
well as immigration. With overpopulation come a reduction in assets and an expansion in
side effects of sickness and illness. Driving causes are like-

⮚ Poverty

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 ⮚ Unfortunate Contraceptive Use

⮚ Child Labor

⮚ Falling Mortality Rates

⮚ Fertility Treatment

⮚ Migration

⮚ Early/Child Marriage

⮚ Expecting male children

• Poverty

Neediness is accepted to be the main source of overpopulation. An absence of instructive

assets, combined with high demise rates prompting higher rates of birth, bring about ruined
regions seeing huge blasts in populace.

The impact is broad to the point that the UN has anticipated that the 48 least fortunate nations
on the planet are likewise liable to be the greatest supporters of populace development. Their
evaluations express that the joined populace of these nations is probably going to inflatable to
1.7 billion out of 2050, from 850 million out of 2010.
• Unfortunate Contraceptive Use

However the accessibility of contraceptives is broad in created nations, lack of foresight on

the two accomplices' parts can prompt startling pregnancies. Measurements have shown that
in Great Britain 76% of ladies matured somewhere in the range of 16 and 49 utilized
something like one type of preventative, leaving a quarter open to unforeseen pregnancies.

This issue is exacerbated in immature regions. A concentrate by the World Health

Organization (WHO) shows that this utilization figure drops to 43% in nations that are cursed
by issues like destitution, which prompts higher rates of birth.

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 • Child Labor

As troubling as it could be to hear, Child labor is as yet utilized broadly in many areas of the
planet. UNICEF assesses that roughly 150 million kids are as of now working, fundamentally
in nations that have not many youngster work regulations.

This can bring about youngsters being viewed as a kind of revenue by devastated families.
Moreover, kids who start work too youthful likewise lose the instructive open doors they
ought to be allowed, especially with regards to contraception.

• Falling Morality Rate

The essential (and maybe generally self-evident) reason for populace development is
unevenness among births and deaths. The baby death rate has diminished universally, with
4.1 million newborn child deaths in 2017 contrasted with 8.8 million of every 1990, as per
the World Health Organization (WHO). This is welcome general wellbeing news, obviously.

Simultaneously, life expectancies are expanding all over the planet. We who are alive today
will probably live significantly longer than the majority of our predecessors. Worldwide
normal future has dramatically increased beginning around 1900, because of progressions in
medication, innovation, and general cleanliness. Falling death rates are absolutely nothing to
grumble about either, however boundless life span adds to the math of expanding populace
numbers.

• Fertility Treatment

However it just assumes a minor part in contrast with different reasons for overpopulation,
further developed richness medicines have made it feasible for additional individuals to have
kids.

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The quantity of ladies utilizing different fertility treatments has been on the ascent since their
beginning. Presently most have the choice of considering kids, regardless of whether they
might not have had the option to do as such without such medicines.

• Migration

Unrestrained movement into nations might prompt overpopulation to the place where those
nations never again have the necessary assets for their populace. This is especially dangerous
in nations where movement numbers far surpass resettlement numbers.

At times, outsiders might be endeavoring to get away from overpopulation in their own
nations, just to add to similar issues in the nations they move to. Be that as it may,
information likewise exists to show the movement can reinforce economies, with the impact
in the UK being especially articulated
• Early/Child Marriage
Child marriage can be defined as “a marriage entered into before the age of 18 and before the
girl is physically, physiologically and psychologically ready to undertake the responsibilities
of marriage and childbearing. Bangladesh has one of the highest rates of early marriage in the
world. According to UN ICEF, 66% of Bangladeshi girls were. married before she turned 18,
and about one-third of women aged 20 to 24 were married before she turned 15. Traditional
customs and moral codes in Bangladesh are responsible for the rising rate of early marriage.
Patriarchy and social inequality are rampant in Bangladesh. Moreover, poverty is an
important factor in early marriage. Young girls are often seen as a financial burden by their
families, and marrying older men or other family members is often a family survival strategy
to achieve financial stability. are tempted by the possibility of a reduced dowry if the
daughter marries young.Another major reason for early marriage in Bangladesh is the fear of
sexual harassment of young daughters. Early marriage is seen as a way of "protecting" a girl's
sexuality in a vulnerable environment. In Bangladesh, the legal age of marriage is 21 for a
boy and 18 for a girl. This was introduced in 1929 by the National Child Marriage

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Prohibition Act. However, authorities rarely intervene to prevent child marriage, and parents
continue to secretly marry their daughters. Despite this law, a demographic and health survey
in Bangladesh found that the average age of marriage for a girl was her 16.4 years.

• Expecting male children

May you be the mother of 100 sons.”- These blessings clearly demonstrate the importance of
sons in family life. There is a general view of having rights, privileges and freedoms.This
attitude is reflected in different countries in terms of male-female ratios, slaughter of women,
high rates of girl child mortality, gender inequality, and gender equality. It is seen through
such things as violence based on

The term "son preference" is related to the concept of sexual selection. This means trying to
control the sex of the offspring in order to achieve the desired sex. I can. It was marketed
under the title Balancing the Family. It is also seen as a major cause of unequal treatment and
violence against women in society.
Demographically, South Asia is one of the world's leading regions contributing to the
"missing women" phenomenon referred to by Nobel laureate and economist Amartya Sen. He
cited love for her son as the main reason for these "missing wives." Bangladesh, like India
and Pakistan, has far more deaths than men of almost any age. Moreover, according to the
2006 United Nations World Population Prospects, Bangladesh had her 104 boys born to her
100 girls, indicating a higher mortality rate for girls than for boys. Here in our country, we
experience our son's preferences even before he is born. For example, before conception, by
continuing to have children until the desired number of sons is reached and then stopping. In
addition, girls are killed during pregnancy by sexually selective abortion and by sexually
selective infanticide at birth. Neglect, malnutrition, and other mechanisms are causing girls to
die in early childhood, reflecting high mortality rates among girls.
The basic reasons for favoring sons in Bangladesh are the socioeconomic structure of society,
religious and cultural beliefs, illiteracy, poverty, cultural restrictions on women, traditional
gender roles, male dominance, and income. legitimacy as head of a household. The kinship
system, pensions expected only for sons, dowry requirements, advances in medical
technology for abortion, etc.

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 ❖ Effect of overpopulation on the country
• Economic growth

Assuming that monetary development surpasses populace development, the way of life goes
up. Then again, in the event that populace development influences yield development per
capita, higher populace development rates will add to sequential generally financial
development rates relying upon the idea of its consequences for per capita Gross Domestic
Product (GDP).

• Energy protection

As the number of inhabitants in a nation builds, its degree of energy protection likewise
increments. The relationship of living creatures relies more upon petroleum derivatives and
the energies created by it. Furthermore, consequently energy preservation is hampered by the
development of populace

• Public health

The nearer individuals become, the more effectively illnesses spread. Consistently 3.4 million
individuals pass on because of polluted water-related sickness. Overpopulation will just make
a more contaminated water supply. It is assessed that in the following 35 years the Earth's
stockpile of petroleum gas will be depleted. That is what overpopulation will mean for
general wellbeing.

• Cultivating

Overpopulation influences cultivating in a manner that while individuals living in a nation are
more, they need more essential and optional products. Individuals will require more food and
this request will prompt seriously cultivating. The ranchers will be in a circumstance to
develop more harvests as for their interest and will be in strain to develop more food.

• Food supplies

Food supplies are hampered when the populace develops. The more how much populace, the
more is the prerequisite of food supplies.

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 • Absence of freshwater

A few unpleasant thoughts give that human interest to freshwater will stay at around 70% of
the planet's accessibility by 2025. This will give space to individuals living in regions that as
of now have restricted openness to such water. Overpopulation is probably going to supply
encourage more prominent interest for the world's new water. Since just 1% of the world's
water is new and open, this is a significant issue that its interest will increment as the
populace increments.

• Region to live

At the point when more individuals are living in a country, they need more space and region
for living. Consequently overpopulation diminishes the crude region and changes it into a
living region which further prompts natural issues like contamination.

• Ascend in Unemployment

At the point when a nation becomes overpopulated, it leads to joblessness as there are fewer
responsibilities to help countless individuals. The ascent in joblessness brings about
wrongdoing, like robbery, as individuals need to take care of their families and give them
essential conveniences of life.

• Expanding cost of Living

As the distinction among request and supply keeps on extending because of overpopulation, it
raises the costs of different fundamental wares, including food, sanctuary, and medical care.
This implies that individuals need to pay more to get by and feed their families.

• Deforestation

Deforestation is chopping down trees. At the point when a country's populace increments,
they need materials like wood, lumber, and so on for specific purposes. Furthermore, thus
overpopulation causes deforestation.

❖ Effect of overpopulation on the world

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 • Exhaustion of Natural Resources

The impacts of overpopulation are very serious. The first of these is the exhaustion of assets.
The Earth can create a restricted measure of water and food, which is missing the mark
concerning the momentum needs. The vast majority of the natural harm found in the last
fifty-odd years is a direct result of the developing number of individuals in the world. They
incorporate chopping down timberlands, hunting untamed life in a wild way, causing
contamination, and making a large group of different issues. Those participated in discusses
overpopulation have seen that demonstrations of brutality and hostility beyond a disaster area
have expanded enormously while competing for assets.

• Corruption of Environment

With the abuse of coal, oil, and flammable gas, it has begun creating a few serious outcomes
on our current circumstance. Additionally, the remarkable ascent in the quantity of vehicles
and enterprises has gravely impacted the nature of air. The ascent in how much CO 2 outflows
prompts an unnatural weather change. Softening of polar ice covers, changing environment
designs ascend in ocean levels is a couple of the results that we could need to look because of
natural contamination.

• Clashes and Wars

Overpopulation in emerging nations overburdens the assets it ought to use for advancement.
Clashes over water are turning into a wellspring of strain between nations, which could bring
about wars. It makes more sicknesses spread and makes them harder to control. Starvation is
an immense issue that the world is confronting, and the death rate for kids is being fuelled by
it. Neediness is the greatest trademark we see while discussing overpopulation. All of this
will possibly turn out to be more terrible on the off chance that arrangements are not searched
out for the elements influencing our populace. We can never again forestall it; however there
are ways of controlling it.

• Pandemics and Epidemics

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Destitution is connected to numerous natural and social reasons, including stuffed and
unhygienic everyday environments, unhealthiness and distant, deficient, or non-existent
medical services, for which the poor are bound to be presented to irresistible illnesses.
Further, high densities of populace increment the opportunity of the development of new
pandemics and scourges.

• Unhealthiness, Starvation and Famine

At the point when the accessibility of assets is scant, starvation, hunger, alongside medical
affliction and sicknesses brought about by diet-inadequacy, for example, rickets become
almost certain. Starvation is regularly connected with less-created locales, and there is a high
relationship with neediness levels.

• Water Shortage

Generally 1% of the world's water is fresh and accessible. Overpopulation is a significant

issue that makes enormous tension on the world's freshwater supplies. According to the
review, the human interest for freshwater would remain at around 70% of freshwater
accessible in the world by 2025. Subsequently, individuals living in devastated regions that as
of now have restricted admittance to such water will be at extraordinary gamble.

• Lower Life Expectancy

A huge extent of the total populace development happens in less evolved nations.
Consequently, lower future brought about by the blasts in populace is capable by less-created
countries. This causes a deficiency of assets in these nations bringing about less admittance to
clinical consideration, freshwater, food and occupations, and at last in a sharp fall in future.

The effect of overpopulation on the world's untamed life is serious. As interest for land
develops, the obliteration of normal living spaces, like timberlands, becomes normal.

Information has likewise been gathered to show an immediate connection between

expansions in human populace and diminishes in the quantity of species in the world. On the

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off chance those current patterns proceed, as numerous as half of the world's natural life
species will be in danger of annihilation, a few researchers caution.

❖ Solution

➢ Solution on the Individual level

✓ Have fewer children! One is good, two is enough

✓ Consider adoption!

✓ Read, educate yourself about population issues

✓ Reduce your personal consumption: go vegan, limit flying, share your household with
others.

✓ Educate your teenage child(ren) about sex and contraception early, without taboos.

✓ Spread your knowledge and concern among your friends and family, raise awareness
about overpopulation on social media.

✓ Vote for politicians who acknowledge the detrimental impacts of population growth
and propose political solutions.

➢ Solution on the community level

• Join local environmental groups, encouraging them to “connect the dots” between
population and the environment and address population issues

• Write opinion pieces for local newspapers, contact local media sources requesting
more reporting on population issues – create demand!

• Municipalities should set growth management boundaries, discouraging sprawl

development on their fringes

• Towns and cities should purchase surrounding lands, or the development rights to
such lands, in order to set them aside as nature preserves and open space

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 • City councils should pass resolutions accepting limits to growth, and directing their
national governments to develop policies to stabilize or reduce national populations

➢ Solution on the national level

• Generously fund family planning programs.

• Make modern contraception legal, free and available everywhere, even in remote areas.

• Improve health care to reduce infant and child mortality.

• Restrict child marriage and raise the legal age of marriage (minimum 18 years)

• Introduce obligatory education as long as possible (minimum until the age of 16), and

generously fund the necessary infrastructure.

• Improvement of family arranging

Individuals all around the world ought to know about providing for a family and of the
expenses connecting with it. People ought to inquire as to whether it could be smarter to
restrict the quantity of kids they want. It is to our greatest advantage to restrict the quantity of
individuals on our planet to safeguard it and feasible.

• Bringing issues to light on overpopulation

One more related point is to increment individuals familiarity with the subject of
overpopulation. Many individuals might in all likelihood never have known about this issue
since it is very typical for them to have however many kids as possible. If they put the
quantity of youngsters in setting to the overpopulation issue, it might turn out to be obvious
to many individuals that overpopulation might kill the entire planet on the off chance that we
don't change our way of behaving.

• Education

Schooling is the key, additionally in the setting to moderate the overpopulation issue.As we
have seen before, needy individuals are probably going to have a greater number of
youngsters than rich individuals. This is because of the way that needy individuals typically
don't have benefits plans and subsequently rely upon their youngsters to accommodate them
when they are old. Subsequently, schooling can assist individuals with escaping neediness
and consequently it can by implication add to a decrease in populace development.

• Birth guideline

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On the off chance that individuals won't become mindful enough to diminish the quantity of
youngsters, the states will be compelled to intercede and set severe guidelines on the quantity
of kids that are permitted. An unmistakable illustration of this system was China with its one-
youngster strategy.

• Extraterrestrial settlement

One more method for battling overpopulation connects with sci-fi writing.With
extraterrestrial settlement like colonizing Mars, we could move part of our populace to
different planets or space natural surroundings and in this manner could moderate the
overpopulation issue. Notwithstanding, this choice can be viewed as very unreliable and must
be approved from now on.

❖ Positive impact of overpopulation

As a significant issue numerous researchers concurred that human populace might arrive at
the place where the earth will not anymore ready to support life. In any case, many accept
that expanding populace has some benefits, for example,

• Financial advantages

• Expanded HR

• More appeal in businesses

• Imaginative, less expensive and

• All the more promptly accessible items and so forth.

A country with high populace as well as expanding number of youth can add more
individuals to formative exercises. A rising populace can help the financial development of a
nation provided that the interest for better administrations develops. Consequently, to yield
constructive outcomes from developing populace a country should have sound approaches.
Keeping the speed with populace development, nations that use their human assets
proficiently in growing better medical services and medication, food creation.

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 ❖ Conclusion: This analysis on overpopulation in Dhaka city and world at large.
Overpopulation is one of the most pressing issues confronting society today. The
overpopulation of humans on the earth has an impact on the health and welfare of our
planet. Overpopulation impacts all of us because food shortage increases, pollution
increases, and global warming worsens. Family planning is the most effective way to
control overpopulation. To do this, appropriate spacing between childbirths can be
ensured. Furthermore, limiting the number of children based on income and resources
is essential. Similarly, increased resources are required.

Experience of group Members While Making the Documentary:

• Ariful Islam Rafi: Firstly, I took interview from a Russian, he was not
fluent in English but he tried his best to share his experience with us.
Secondly, I took interview from a doctor to get the solution for
overpopulation. The idea was mine while my group mates asked me how
can we get the solution of this problem? I said “a doctor played a vital
role in family planning so he can give us a proper solution”. Actually, I
enjoyed a lot while I was doing that type of work. In the introductory part
of this video, we tried something unique and I have presented this this
part when we took this shoot we tried 5 times then it became decent.
Lastly, it was first time I did that types of work even my group mates are
same,so hopefully, we will get forgive if we did something wrong.
• .MD . Shafiul Alam; It was a wonderful a experience for being a part of
this documentery. This task helps us in developing team work ability.
Like: I give the idea of how we can start our documentry video.By taking
interview we develop our communication skills.Because lots of people
did not want to tell in the interview. However we managed to convince
them.So it also developed our convincing ability.Overall it was a very
enjoyable journey with lots of experiences.

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 • Alvee Islam; Working together with other individuals for an assignment
might be a tough endeavor in certain situations but happily, I worked
effectively with my group mates. The choices we made were anonymous
however we paced ourselves individually when it came to finishing our
various sections. Since a group, I feel that we bonded effectively on an
interpersonal level as all five of us were able to make adjustments to any
issue collectively. Furthermore, we did not allow each other an
opportunity to become furious at one another since we understood that
this would just produce conflict that would break our flow as a group.
There was an equal division in the quantity of work that we all
completed; our efforts were fair and no one was missing behind. In
addition, my group members were fantastic at keeping each other
updated if one of us were not able to attend a group meeting; emails
were sent out telling us what we missed and ideas that were made.
Everyone in my group worked according to deadlines and in
coordination with each other; we did not have to badger anybody to
finish work or wait on a member to complete their duty.

As a group, we were able to discuss and construct ideas together so everyone

understood what the other person was writing about to minimize last-minute
misunderstanding.

The experience while working with my group was entertaining and

nice.Completing the group project helped me not only to learn about the issue
but also to have interactions with people while doing interviews and group
work.

• Mostofa Asad; The majority of people who are creating population right
now are rickshaw pullers and day laborers who lack common knowledge,
which is why there is an increase in overpopulation in our society.
Bangladeshi people still don't know how to register births or prevent
them, and they also lack the necessary educational qualifications. The
population of Bangladesh is growing, and based on my experience, the
government must stop it unless we can satisfy many of our demands.
They don't know how to use birth control, and they have no desire to

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 obtain it And when I was creating the documentary video, I became
conscious of the fact that the people of Bangladesh are not aware that if
we don't act quickly and forcefully, Bangladesh would pose a threat to
our future generations.
Because they raise the question of who exactly is the root of the issue and
what, if anything, should be done about it, discussions regarding
overpopulation may quickly get contentious. Many population experts are
concerned that prejudiced individuals will use discussions about
overpopulation to suggest that some people are "the right people" to be on
the planet (like themselves) and that others are "the wrong people"
(typically those who are poor, people of color, foreigners, and so forth—
you get the idea). On the other hand, there are no "right" or "wrong"
individuals in the world, therefore talking about the issues of
overpopulation cannot ever be an excuse or a place to start having that
kind of discourse.

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