Tragedy of Population Growth

                The Tragedy of the commons is when people act in their own interest and use up limited resources the world has in an inefficient manner. One overlooked example of the tragedy of the commons is the literal human population. The human population has been growing at an incredibly rapid pace, doubling in the last sixty years, and is expected to reach nearly ten billion in the next forty years. Little is being done by the governments of the world to recognize how important it is to think about this growth strategically. In the current state, we do very little to deal with population growth, and it is leading to a tragedy of the commons. Millions of people are unable to do anything for the world because of their economic circumstances, and this is wasteful of them as resources. Humans have something to contribute to the quality of the world, but many are unable to gain the opportunity to do anything.

                At upcoming political summits, scientists are requesting that world governments take a serious role in helping deal with population growth. This growth is being wasted, and is contributing to the rather negative state of the current world economy. The balance between people in different parts of the world is completely out of sync, and governments need to take a step back and start working on helping to share resources that are being wasted on people that do not need them, and should be shared with those that do need them, as this could lead to total economic expansion by solving the wasting of the human resource.