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News digest of population, resource depletion, reproductive choice, women and girl's education, male responsibility, educational soaps, disparity of wealth, demographics, conservation of resources and ways you can help.|WOA!! World Population Awareness

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WOA! World Population Awareness is a non-profit web publication seeking to inform people about overpopulation, unsustainability, and overconsumption; the impacts, including depletion of natural resources, water, oil, soil, fertilizers, species loss, malnutrition, poverty, displacement of people, conflict; and what can be done about it: women's advancement, education, reproductive health care, delaying marriage, availability of contraception, and male responsibility; and what you can do to help.

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Groundwater Contamination - The Groundwater Foundation

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Groundwater Contamination Over 50% of the United States population depends on groundwater for drinking water. Groundwater is also one of our most important sources of water for irrigation. Unfortunately, groundwater is susceptible to pollutants. Groundwater contamination occurs when man-made products such as gasoline, oil, road salts and chemicals get into the groundwater and cause it to become unsafe and unfit for human use.

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Overuse is one reason antibiotics are losing their punch.

NEW YORK - U.S. doctors are prescribing enough antibiotics to give them to 4 out of 5 Americans every year, an alarming pace that suggests they are being overused, a new government study finds.

Overuse is one reason antibiotics are losing their punch, making infections harder to treat. The report released Wednesday gives the first detailed look at usage of these medicines in every state and finds it highest in the South and Appalachia.

"It sounds high," said Keith Rodvold, a professor of pharmacy practice at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

There is no scientific consensus on an appropriate level of antibiotic prescribing. But some experts said the new study's results are disturbing, and that rates are probably excessive even in the states with the lowest antibiotic prescription levels.

Antibiotics have been commonly available since the 1940s, and have done wonders at saving patients with infections ranging from pneumonia to sexually spread diseases. But bacteria have increasingly gained the power to shrug off antibiotics.
MORE: W. Va. top state for antibiotic prescription rates
Experts say chances of resistance increase when antibiotics are not used long enough or are taken for the wrong reasons, allowing bacteria to survive and adapt. The Centers for Disease control and Prevention is tracking at least 20 strains of resistant bacteria.

CDC researchers conducted the new study, analyzing a national prescription drug database for 2010. The findings are being published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.

Other studies have focused on antibiotic prescriptions for specific groups like Medicare patients. This is the first to look at it for all Americans.

Doctors and other health care providers prescribed 258 million courses of antibiotics in 2010, for a population just shy of 309 million, the researchers found. That translates to 833 antibiotic prescriptions for every 1,000 people, on average.

But rates were much higher in West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee, where about 1,200 were written for every 1,000 people. On the low end were Alaska, Oregon and California, where prescriptions were at or below 600. Earlier studies found similar geographic trends.

Why the difference?

One possibility: Southerners suffer more infections than people in other parts of the country.

Southern states have the highest rates of obesity and diabetes, and diabetics tend to have more infections than other people, noted the CDC's Dr. Lauri Hicks, one of the study's authors.

"So some of that prescribing may be warranted," she said.

During the swine flu pandemic of 2009 and 2010, the South saw more reports of illness than other parts of the country. Experts at the time said patients with flu-related pneumonia should be treated with both antiviral medicines and antibiotics to prevent all forms of deadly complications, Rodvold noted.

The South also has higher rates of certain other respiratory infections, including bronchitis, according to a study last year by University of Pittsburgh researchers.

And the CDC study found the most frequently prescribed antibiotic was azithromycin, which is commonly used for bronchitis symptoms. But that's a problem. Bronchitis is usually caused by a virus, and antibiotics like azithromycin don't work against viruses.
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"Some of the prescribing may not be warranted," Hicks said.

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Overuse is one reason antibiotics are losing their punch. NEW YORK - U.S. doctors are prescribing enough antibiotics to give them to 4 out of 5 Americans every year, an alarming pace that suggests they are being overused, a new government study finds. Overuse is one reason antibiotics are losing their punch, making infections harder to treat.

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Human Domination of Earth 's Ecosystems Science

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Overpopulation is NOT a MYTH - OVERCONSUMPULATION

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According to the millennium ecosystem assessment's four volumes of scientific peer reviewed journals (http://www.maweb.org/en/index.aspx) humans are using ecosystem service resources faster than they are replaced or recycled leading to degradation of the Earth's bank of savings.

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The USA has been a major contributor for mankind's Ecological footprint on Earth. The constant demand for natural resources has prevented nature to produce crucial things needed to survive. We humans must prevent ourselves from stripping Mother Earth's resources for the benefit of mankind.

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As time passes, this world has become overpopulated with billions of people causing a high demand of resources. This high demand has put a stress on nature as it makes an attempt to catch up to the constant demand of its resources (food,water). Also, a sense of national pride has been a major cause as we Americans make an attempt to have the most technological and evolved items in the world. Finally, ignorance and selfishness are our darkest traits in all human beings. This has led to overusing because us humans have forgotten that the world we live on is not ours, but for all living beings across the planet.

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We should divert our main attention to the long list of things that our once great country is doing wrong. These things poison the world we are allowed to thrive and flourish on. If mankind's habits continue, the world we use to call home will be destroyed forcing us into extinction or have to seek a new world.

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The only way to fix this constant usage of unnecessary things is by educating the people and people of higher status within the government system. Not only would this benefit our country, but we will serve as a precedent for other parts of the world and generations yet to come

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Our most major human flaws are that we have is our extreme arrogance and selfishness. These traits affect our mindset by forcing us to do unnecessary things that may bring danger to our future.

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The United states are constantly wasting or exceeding their limit day by day. Whether its food or electricity we have quite a list of what we are overusing today and in the past. Some of the subjects we are overusing today are:

> Antibiotics: given to animals

> Ground water: contamination and levels low

> Healthcare

> Food: 165$ billion dollars

> Natural Resources

> Energy:

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The United States of America: a nation founded under unnecessary bloodshed and big knuckleheads fighting over whose land was whose! Our nation has come a long way and has made a pivotal contribution to this world and its inhabitants. We have the most tremendous sights, highly enhanced tech, and mouthwatering food! Although our country may seem like a daydream to people around the world; we too, have our  flaws. The USA's landscape takes up about 5% of our planet's surface, but uses about 20% of it's resources! "We have only one planet. Its capacity to support a thriving diversity of species, humans included, is large but fundamentally limited. When human demand on this capacity exceeds what is available - when we surpass ecological limits - we erode the health of the Earth's living systems. Ultimately this loss threatens human well-being." - WWF International's Director General, James Leape states at a conference where ecological issues were discussed.

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USA: A Nation Constantly Overhyped and Constantly Overusing

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USA: A Nation Constantly Overhyped and Constantly Overusing