Topic: The continued rise in the world’s population is the greatest problem faced by humanity at present time.
What are the causes of this continued rise?
Do you agree that is it the greatest problem faced by humanity?
written by Cuong Nguyen
The world population is now well over 7 billion, catapulted by an exponential growth over the past century, especially in the developing nations. From my standpoint, significant advancements in medication, along with improved food security, have brought about the current trend. Acknowledging this fact, however, I personally don’t believe it is a huge problem faced by mankind, for some underlying reasons about to be discussed in this essay.
The first cause for a drastic increase in world population is certainly enhanced health service in almost every corner of the planet. One of the most notable achievements was the discovery of antibiotics, the first being penicillin, which have saved millions of lives, especially in wartime. Some other milestones of universal health care were the creation of vaccines, and the implementation of vaccination campaigns, safeguarding newborns of life-threatening infections. On the whole, biology, chemistry, and health-related fields made serious breakthroughs in the last two centuries, altogether contributing to safer lives and longevity of the people.
The second cause of this lightning-speed population rise has to be vigorous attempts to maintain food security. Technological progress in agriculture and supporting industries such as fertilizer, pesticide production, automation equipment, etc has led to boosted productivity, variety and quality of crops and other food products. The relentless efforts of governments, especially in the developed countries, to reduce food prices (by subsidizing agriculture) generated spillovers to the rest of the world. Proliferation of specialization and free trade greatly enhanced the availability of food and drove down prices.
While the fact of rapid population growth is universally accepted, it’s believed that this phenomenon does not pose much of a problem. First, population of the world is always clustered in cities or coastal areas, so there is little chance of the Earth being overly inhabited. Second, rich and powerful nations are deliberately facilitating and developing alternative energy sources, which are already utilized in many European countries. The rise of electric, rechargeable cars has proven this trend. In the upcoming centuries, there is a good chance that Mars will be colonized (with the pioneering efforts being made by NASA and SpaceX). Thus, overpopulation is much less a worry than other contemporary concerns of humanity, such as poverty alleviation, terrorism, or climate change.
In a nutshell, the dramatic rise of human population stems from better medication, as well as improved food security in every section of the world. Nonetheless, this might not be a big deal compared to other urgent and more threatening issues.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, nonetheless, second, so, thus, well, while, as to, such as, as well as, on the whole
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 13.1623246493 144% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 7.85571142285 25% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 24.0651302605 46% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 41.998997996 143% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 8.3376753507 228% => Less nominalization wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2361.0 1615.20841683 146% => OK
No of words: 413.0 315.596192385 131% => OK
Chars per words: 5.71670702179 5.12529762239 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50803742585 4.20363070211 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.30267763944 2.80592935109 118% => OK
Unique words: 251.0 176.041082164 143% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.607748184019 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 738.9 506.74238477 146% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.384769539078 0% => OK
Article: 7.0 2.52805611222 277% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 16.0721442886 118% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.8300297683 49.4020404114 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.263157895 106.682146367 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7368421053 20.7667163134 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.73684210526 7.06120827912 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 8.67935871743 173% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.146339398448 0.244688304435 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0426119273295 0.084324248473 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0518263393779 0.0667982634062 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0807381543985 0.151304729494 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0327503285887 0.056905535591 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.4 13.0946893788 125% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.24 50.2224549098 66% => OK
smog_index: 13.0 7.44779559118 175% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.9 12.4159519038 128% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.3 8.58950901804 120% => OK
difficult_words: 147.0 78.4519038076 187% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 9.78957915832 133% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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