- Since the second unit we are focusing on is the conflicts coming with population. The deeper I dig on my research, the more I found about how huge the impact can be within overpopulation. In this section, I will introduce about the situation in slums and the life people who lives there.
- To begin with this section, the first question coming to us is what is slum? There is a common believes that slum is the areas where poor people live. However that is only partly correct. Generally, slum means the area is highly populated in a small urbanized area within a large number of population in poverty.
- Due to the population explosion started at 19 century, the development of fundamental support in city can't meet the speed of the growth in population. Therefore, in order to find better living condition and opportunity, those poor people who live at rural areas, decide to migrant to those big city which are well developed. However, within large population coming to those cities, the endurance of the city was exceeded. Therefore, within less education and economic support, those poor peoples are less likely to find the "better living conditions" they want. As a result, those migrants from rural gathered together and formed the slum area.
- Generally, slums are lacking of portable water, improved sanitation, durable housing, adequate housing space and security. Since people who lives in slum are extremely poor, daily basis like electricity or water supply become not affordable for them. In this case, there is no secure to the safety of water. Additionally, with the lack of sanitation resources, people who lives in slum are constantly drinking water that is badly contaminated which caused diseases took place cross the slum. Furthermore, slum are also a area that controlled by gangs. Since people who are living in the slums are extremely poor, they are hard for the government to manage. Therefore, it create the situation that a large part of slums are controlled by the gangs.
- Despite the fact that the living condition in slums are below the poverty. the daily life in the slums are not as despair as people's common expected. For example, in slum Kibera which is located in Kenya, since it was originally set up at last century back to the time when Kenya was still a colony. Most residents living in Kibera now are the generation who were born and grew up in the slum. Within the restricted resources for those people to leave the slums, they had never seen the world outside. Therefore, the slum itself is the whole world for those people live in slum. Without comparison to other target, people lives in slum are satisfied by their current living condition. Within the video above, as can be seen, even in a extreme condition like that, children in slum are still laughing happily.
- Eventually, after my researching to slum, I found despite there are more people had already noticed the problems existed in slums and decide to support those slums in their way. It is still far not enough to solve this problem. Since the reason for those people to live in poverty coming from the overpopulation and the lack of job opportunities. By creating more job opportunities can not solve the conflicts permanently. Unless there is a way to balance the relationship between population and city development, the existence of slums will never end.
- As can be seen in the graph above, even with a high speed of social development the prediction of future slum dwellers is still rising. Despite the fact that the proportion of people who lives in the slums is decreasing. The conflicts of slum is still a rough conflicts to solve as if the population keep growing.
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