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Overpopulation

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A useful tool to explore future population possibilities

Within the past decade, Our World in Data has emerged as a leading purveyor of global economic, health, and demographic statistics.

Overpopulation: The Global Challenge and Its Far-reaching Impacts

Overpopulation exerts pressure on the environment, exacerbating the depletion of natural resources, and contributing to ecological degradation.

Solutions to Population Growth Weaken Catholic Church Authority

That the Vatican views the solutions to the population problem as threats to its authority, and thus its political power, is well supported.

Some thoughts about people who advocate for a larger population

Although fertility in the USA has declined, people want more children, on the average, than they actually have.

We are Only Treating the Symptoms of Overpopulation

I have met thousands of people who wish to have control over their family size. Slowing population growth is, indeed, the “low hanging fruit.”

Catholic Church and the Preoccupation with Power

The Catholic Church's preoccupation with power stems from some of the most sensitive and important social issues of our day.

The Most Appropriate Response to Falling Birthrates? Embrace Them

As birthrates continue to decline in many industrialized countries, anxious governments are running out of schemes to keep women procreating.

Population growth has contributed 80% of ecological overshoot

The human enterprise is in overshoot, depleting essential ecosystems and polluting the ecosphere beyond nature’s assimilative capacity.

The dogma of papal infallibility

Papal infallibility means that the pope is incapable of error when he makes ex cathedra decisions on matters of faith and morals.

New paper defends a pragmatic definition of overpopulation

Distinguishing ecologically sustainable from excessive human populations is necessary to understand humanity’s environmental challenges.

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