• Human overpopulation (or human population overshoot) describes a concern that human populations may become too large to be sustained by their environment...
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    Demographic transition Doomsday argument Family planning Food security Human overpopulation Megacity Natalism One-child policy Population decline Population...
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  • Overpopulation or overabundance is a phenomenon in which a species' population becomes larger than the carrying capacity of its environment. This may be...
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    frequently cited by the group as evidence of the harm caused by human overpopulation. VHEMT was founded in 1991 by Les U. Knight, an American activist...
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    population growth, though from the 1950s to the 1980s, concerns about overpopulation and its effects on poverty, the environment and political stability...
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    extinction of the human race within a century, primarily as the result of human overpopulation, environmental degradation and climate change. According to a 2020...
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    praised the AIDS epidemic in Africa as a solution to the problem of human overpopulation in their newsletter. Asociality – lack of motivation to engage in...
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  • Behavioral sink (category Human overpopulation)
    B. Calhoun to describe a collapse in behavior that can result from overpopulation. The term and concept derive from a series of over-population experiments...
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    Population density (category Human overpopulation)
    area, illustrating the difference between high population density and overpopulation. Deserts have very limited potential for growing crops as there is not...
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    about disease and climate change were essentially correct and that human overpopulation is a major problem. Whereas American journalist Jonathan V. Last...
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    main reason for biodiversity loss is a growing human population because this leads to human overpopulation and excessive consumption. Others disagree, saying...
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  • Human migration is the movement by people from one place to another, particularly different countries, with the intention of settling temporarily or permanently...
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    to the 1970s, a time of population explosion and growing fears of human overpopulation in the wake of decolonization and before the adoption of China's...
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  • main reason for biodiversity loss is a growing human population because this leads to human overpopulation and excessive consumption. Others disagree, saying...
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    the number of people in a population or dispersed group. Actual global human population growth amounts to around 83 million annually, or 1.1% per year...
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  • include pollution, plastic pollution, waste, resource depletion, human overpopulation and climate change. Global Alliance on Health and Pollution (GAHP)...
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    linked human population growth or population size as a driver of environmental issues, including some suggesting this indicates an overpopulation scenario...
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  • pronatalism, overpopulation, human supremacy, and ecological collapse and promote urgently needed solutions. Activities include The Overpopulation Podcast...
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    species, famine as a result of non-equitable resource distribution, human overpopulation, crop failures, and non-sustainable agriculture. Research into the...
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  • Sustainable population (category Human overpopulation)
    involve limits to human numbers, since per capita human resource use can never be driven down to zero. Population growth Human overpopulation Overshoot (population)...
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    Malthusianism (category Human overpopulation)
    A similar, more modern concept, is that of human overpopulation. Neo-Malthusianism is the advocacy of human population planning to ensure resources and...
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    Total fertility rate (category Human overpopulation)
    replacement rate, estimated to be 2.3, in the 2020s. Projections of world human population indicate the transition from long-term growth to long-term decline...
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  • ecologist and microbiologist. He focused his career on the issue of human overpopulation, and is best known for his exposition of the tragedy of the commons...
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    One-child policy (category Human overpopulation)
    from a human rights perspective have been subjects of controversy. China's family planning policies began to be shaped by fears of overpopulation in the...
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    RAND Corporation (category Human overpopulation think tanks)
    was secretly recommending to the US government a major effort to design a human-made satellite that would take photographs from space and the rockets to...
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    people prioritize day-to-day survival over species conservation; with human overpopulation in tropical developing countries, there has been enormous pressure...
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  • Overshoot (population) (category Human overpopulation)
    populations have been consumed completely. Overshoot can apply to human overpopulation as well as other animal populations: any life-form that consumes...
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    of biodiversity has been attributed in particular to human overpopulation, continued human population growth and overconsumption of natural resources...
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  • The Population Bomb (category Works about human overpopulation)
    Ehrlich. From the opening page, it predicted worldwide famines due to overpopulation, as well as other major societal upheavals, and advocated immediate...
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  • Soylent Green (category Overpopulation fiction)
    overpopulation, global warming, and pollution have caused ecocide, leading to severe worldwide shortages of food, water, and housing, bringing human civilization...
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