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.
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.
New paper defends a pragmatic definition of overpopulation
Distinguishing ecologically sustainable from excessive human populations is necessary to understand humanity’s environmental challenges.
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.
Housing affordability improves when population growth eases
In the past two decades, many high-income countries have endured unprecedented increases in the cost of homes to buy or rent.
The Psychology of our Strange Overpopulation Taboo
The psychoanalytic literature on the ecological crisis is a case study of disavowal, evasion and distraction with side-issues.
The imminence (or otherwise) of depopulation
As ecosystems deteriorate and wealth inequality deepens, the impact of overpopulation on the natural world is well-documented.
Major UN report highlights overpopulation and overconsumption, need for profound transformation
The report is very candid regarding the fundamental drivers of our planetary crises — population growth, overconsumption, and growth-dependent.
Overpopulation is a major factor in global mortality
In many countries, overpopulation, poverty and lack of food increase hunting of wildlife for ”bush-meat” and other products.
The argument from failure
As nations embrace short-term economic growth at the expense of environmental sustainability, the case for overpopulation is strengthened.
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