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Population Growth - Reference
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by Deborah Rich & Jason Mark -- Summer 2009 -- It's highly unlikely that life as we know it - or want it - can continue for long unless we rein in population growth. Too many measures indicate that the great mass of us burning fossil fuels, gobbling up renewable resources, and generating toxic trash is overloading our life support ecosystems. (Full Article) |
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Do we need population control? |
By Katharine Mieszkowski -- Sept. 17, 2008 -- Some 6.7 billion people live on planet Earth today and close to 3 billion more may be in the mix by 2050. Given those staggering numbers, it's easy to assume surging human population is the real root of the world's evils, from global warming to poverty, starvation to habitat loss. (Full Article)
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by Robert Engelman -- Sept. 2008 -- Vaccinations, improved water supplies, sanitation, roads and railroads to move crops to markets, food and fertilizer aid, hygiene education -- each of these steps, large and small, slashed away at the high rates of infant and child death that for centuries had clamped down population growth in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. (Full Article) |
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Women: Population's Once and Future Key |
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by Thomas Prugh -- Aug. 2008 -- The best strategy for constraining population growth is empowering women to make their own family-size choices through access to education, economic opportunity, medical care, and family planning services. (Full Article) |
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Confronting the Inevitable: Population Reduction, Voluntary and Other |
by J. Kenneth Smail -- May 5, 2008 -- In this brief essay, I shall argue that it has now become necessary for the human species to develop and implement, as quickly as possible, a well conceived, clearly articulated, flexibly designed, broadly equitable, and internationally coordinated program focused on bringing about a very significant reduction in global human numbers over the next two or more centuries. (Full Article)
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Peak Oil, Carrying Capacity and Overshoot: Population, the Elephant in the Room |
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by GliderGuider -- May 7, 2007 -- Each of the global problems we face today is the result of too many people using too much of our planet's finite, non-renewable resources and filling its waste repositories of land, water and air to overflowing. The true danger posed by our exploding population is not our absolute numbers but the inability of our environment to cope with so many of us doing what we do. (Full Article)
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Optimum Population Trust Journal |
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Optimum Population Trust -- The OPT Journal is published twice a year and is available to members on request. It is edited by OPT Research Co-ordinator Andrew Ferguson and contains academic and technical articles by OPT experts and other contributors. You can download complete versions of past editions of the OPT Journal. Over several issues, there is a synopsis of Clive Ponting's A Green History of the World by Martin Desvaux. (Link to Journal) |
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Birth Rates 'Must be Curbed to Win War on Global Poverty' |
The Independent -- Jan. 31, 2007 -- The earth's population will approach an unsustainable total of 10.5 billion unless contraception is put back at the top of the agenda for international efforts to alleviate global poverty. A report by MPs released today challenges world leaders to put the contraceptive pill and the condom at the centre of their efforts to alleviate global poverty, tackle starvation and even help to avert global warming. (Full Article)
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The Population Bomb is Ticking Again |
by Eric Curren -- Oct. 2, 2006 -- The U.S. is expected to reach 400 million by mid-century. Whatever happens as a result of global warming or the energy crisis coming when world oil production peaks, overcrowding alone will make America a very different place than it is today. And not a better one. (Full Article)
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Population Explosion Threatens to Trap Africa in Cycle of Poverty |
by Xan Rice -- Aug. 25, 2006 -- By 2050 Chad, Mali, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Niger, Burundi and Malawi - all among the poorest nations in the world - are projected to triple in size. Nigeria will have become the world's fourth biggest country. Democratic Republic of Congo and Ethiopia will have vaulted into the top 10 for the first time. Nearly a quarter of the world's population will come from Africa - up from one in seven today. (Full Article)
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If We All Close Our Eyes, Will Our Population Problems Go Away? |
by Jeffrey Allen -- Jan. 24, 2006 -- The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment--a four-year, $22 million research project compiled by 1,360 experts from around the world--notes that "humankind is pushing up against natural thresholds and increasing the likelihood of abrupt changes--especially when there are three billion more people in 2050." (Full Article)
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The Population Bottleneck |
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by E. O. Wilson -- Dec. 2002 -- The bottleneck is what I believe humanity’s in right now. We all, or most all, realize that humanity has pushed its population growth pretty close to the limit. We may top out, if we can use the United Nation’s projections at this stage, at perhaps nine to ten billion, fifty percent more people than exist today, and then begin to decline. (Interview) |
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