Why is overpopulation in Singapore a conservation issue?

Being a blog on conservation psychology, I would hope to bring the theme of conservation to readers out there. However, Singapore is facing a big issue with regards to conservation. It is not targeting issues of conservation pertaining to overpopulation.

Despite the government’s efforts to try to go green via movements like Earth Hour and Having Zoos and Organizations like NParks take care of the nature of Singapore, Overpopulation is a conservation issue that is hidden from the general public. It is a flaw in the system which I think they wish to hide.

To readers who are unsure of why overpopulation is an issue to conservation, let me give you a simple illustration. Singapore is a country without natural resource. In a conservation sense we are not self-sustaining and require other countries to survive. examples would be water from Malaysia, Oil from Indonesia, etc. However, not only do we not keep our population levels low so that we do not use so much of these limited resources the earth has, we continue to grow and increase our population to its current amount of 5 Million. With such a huge amount of people, think of the electricity we consume, the amount of food we take, the amount of water we use, and then the fact that we do not have enough of these resources to sustain on our own. That is the issue of overpopulation.

Looking at only Singapore is a small scale. If you look at a broader picture, Earth is facing a overpopulation crisis as well. More and more forests has to be cut down to make space for agriculture. All to create food to keep the population of humans alive and growing. If you think of Mother Earth as a species, then it is “infected” with humans, a disease that seeks out and drains the resources out of its host.

But looking back at Singapore. I would like to stand my stand on several issues pertaining to overpopulation which i feel is very salient to me. Some of my other blog posts will talk about these issues. Do note that this is just my personal opinion and not representative of any organization.