Population explosion refers to the number of people that live in an area. It is a major issue for developing countries. I think it is necessary to have a birth control policy in my country. You see, the biggest problem facing the world today is overpopulation and that population explosion is also a considerable problem in Vietnam. We have more than ninety million people. Overpopulation results from the fact that Vietnam's birth rates are rising while death rates are falling as medical advances have made it possible for people to live longer than before. People still hold the traditional idea that the more children one has, the happier they will be in the future. Overpopulation is the root of unemployment, increasing rubbish, lacking resources, and reduced green land. A lot of Vietnam's problems stem from overpopulation. It can cause a series of social problems, such as unemployment, social and so on. If the population goes on increasing at the present rate, our energy resources will be used up sooner or later and there will eventually not be enough resources left to sustain life on the planet. Today, in Vietnam, the rapidly rising population has put strain on natural resources in general, and forest resources in particular, as a result of increased demand for resources. The following factors contribute to the degradation of forest resources as a result of population growth: Expansion of agricultural land acreage: to satisfy the demand for food production, the primary cause of which is shifting cultivation. Due to poor forest management and conservation, the area of natural forests is currently shrinking. Natural disasters are becoming more powerful and frequent as a result of this. According to the General Department of Forestry (2018) (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam), the natural forest area has increased by more than 50% in just over 5 years (from 2012 to 2017), the natural forest area has been lost by 11 percent owing to illicit deforestation, with the remaining 89 percent due to conversion of forest use purposes in sanctioned projects. So, Vietnamese governments have been taking active measures to bring the birth rate under control. Some people don't realize that by having more children they make it more difficult for themselves and the government in the long run. Experts have long been concerned about the population on earth, which could have reached 11 billion by the year 2075. As China has practiced this policy for three decades, the birth control policy has achieved success in China, and the hope is to reach zero population growth with the total number of births equaling the total number of deaths by the year 2010.
But in my country - Vietnam, at the beginning, it was quite tough to implement the birth control policy. Some people tried every means to have children. But the government has done a lot of persuasion work. The policy "one couple, one child or two children” may not be ideal when it comes to educating the only child in the family because the only child can easily get spoiled. But there is no other better way. But you just can't imagine what would happen if Vietnam didn't practise birth control. Ever since they implemented this policy, they have seen a great reduction in the birth rate. In this sense, my country has made great contributions to world population control. But hopefully, with the "one couple, one child or two children” recommendation, the situation has been improved. Besides, the situation in the urban areas is much better than in the rural areas. The city dwellers are comparatively better educated. They are fully aware of the severity of the population problem in the world. They are happy with one child, either a boy or a girl. I have heard that it was a problem in the countryside, where people used to think only boys could carry on family trees and be the main labor force. So, if their first-born was a girl, they would keep trying for a son. But by educating these people and many endeavors of the government, we can see that the work of family planning is going much better in the countryside nowadays.
In modern society in Vietnam, people now attach more importance to the quality of the children than to the quantity. They make great efforts to bring up their children well physically and psychologically. Today, more men and women are waiting longer to get married and are using birth control devices and methods to prevent or delay pregnancy. Well, of course, some people delay having children, because they are making great efforts to achieve self-fulfillment first and enjoy their life without any constraints if they have children.
To sum it up, the population explosion has caused huge pressure on the surface of the earth. Also, we can control many issues of the earth by controlling population growth. Besides, many problems like food insecurity, illiteracy, poverty, and unemployment can be minimized by controlling the population.