Biodiversity and the roles of human population and consumption: a debate
Population increase leads to faster consumption of resources, destruction of nature and decreasing biological diversity.
The Quixotic pursuit of sustainability
Atmospheric carbon has topped 420 parts per million this year, higher than at any time in the past 3 million years.
The role of population growth during three decades of increasing carbon emissions
A dominant narrative in climate change debates asserts that addressing population growth is not relevant for climate mitigation.
Reconciling human demands with planetary boundaries
Human population grows, Earth doesn’t. A certain environmental impact is needed to satisfy basic human needs.
The Great Multiplier
Consumption and population size work together in having an impact on the Earth's resources and the sustainability of our societies.
Overpopulation as a local problem
Overpopulation is commonly associated with global ecological overshoot, but it can occur at any level from the local to the global.
Strange bedfellows of sustainability: How identity politics obstructs the future of wilderness
Growth of our US population squeezes wildlife into unsustainable corners of our ever more human-serving landscape.
Delusional population projections lead us sleepwalking into catastrophe
Unless we take a more proactive approach to ending population growth, we will miss our last chance to avoid a hungry, hothouse world.
Procreation and Consumption in the Real World
Environmentalists should advocate policies leading to fewer people and lower per capita consumption, not one instead of the other.
Two ways to argue for population’s importance
We need the term overpopulation to explain that in all likelihood, the current global population is much too large to ever be sustainable.
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