OVERPOPULATION
MERRIAM-WEBSTER DEFINITION -- HAVING A POPULATION SO DENSE AS TO CAUSE ENVIRONMENTAL DETERIORATION & IMPAIRED QUALITY OF LIFE
1840-1 Billion** 1927-2 Billion** 1960-3 Billion** 1974-4 Billion** 1987-5 Billion** 1999-6 Billion** 2012-7 Billion** 2022-8 Billion
TMP = TOO MANY PEOPLE
OverPopulation is THE major factor in environmental reality, and therefore deserves as much attention as renewable energy. It is a bigger threat to our existence than Climate Change in that IT is what drives our depletion of natural resources, destruction of oxygen-producing forests, the need to burn fossil fuels & the endless overproduction of plastic.
“It is very alarming at the rate we’re going, and although people will say, ‘In the long run, we are going to stabilize’, they’re going to stabilize - as far as I can see - at a rather higher level than the Earth can really accommodate.”
David Attenborough
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"Climate change has taken on political dimensions...that's odd because I don't see people choosing sides over E=MC2 or other fundamental facts of science."
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
OVER 4 DOZEN, A COUPLE ARE CRAZY
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The Latin American Population Association, ALAP, is a scientific organization with interest on population issues. Joined by more than five hundred researchers, students and other professionals ALAP is a forum for dissemination, debateand discussion of demographic matters in Latin America and the Caribbean.
BALANCE's goals and activities are based on the relationships between population size, quality of life, and environmental impact. We believe that safeguarding the future of the U.S. depends upon achieving a balance between population and environment. After all, practically all of our environmental problems, and other quality of life issues, are to a significant degree caused, or exacerbated, by increasing population pressures.-
Welcome to the Baby Bust
Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) works to formulate and advance policies and programs designed to stabilize the population of California, the U.S. and the world at levels that will preserve the environment and a good quality of life for all.-
The Childless by Choice Project
The One Commandment: "Thou shalt not procreate" The Four Pillars: suicide · abortion cannibalism · sodomy Human Population: SAVE THE PLANET KILL YOURSELF
Human overpopulation is among the most pressing environmental issues, silently aggravating the forces behind global warming, environmental pollution, habitat loss, the sixth mass extinction, intensive farming practices and the consumption of finite natural resources, such as fresh water, arable land and fossil fuels, at speeds faster than their rate of regeneration. Read more: Overpopulation - Everything Connects
Population Matters is a membership charity that addresses population size and environmental sustainability. We believe population growth contributes to environmental degradation, resource depletion and other problems. We conduct research, inform the public and advocate improved family planning and sex education, women’s empowerment, smaller families and moderate consumption.
Population is a multiplier in the equation for finding a sustainable balance on the Earth. The more people there are, the smaller our economies must be and the simpler our lifestyles. The bigger our economies and lifestyles, the smaller our population must be. The science is clear that the current combination of world population and levels of consumption are unsustainable. We are in the process of liquidating the planet’s resources and injuring the capacity of life-sustaining ecosystems. It’s safe to say the world is overpopulated, and it will continue to be until we can say that we have achieved sustainable equilibrium.
Even if each and everyone of us contributes in an almost imperceptible way, 7.6 billion and rising is a tremendous number that our minds can’t even begin to conceptualize, with all of those trivial impacts amounting to profound transformations. The Human Overpopulation Atlas describes those deviations. Click below to watch an introduction video where I briefly explain what the Atlas is all about.
The Global Development and Population Program makes grants to expand women’s reproductive and economic choices, amplify citizen participation, and improve policymaking through evidence.
HPC stimulates and facilitates innovative, impactful research that combines the core strengths in social science, public health, medical science, and biostatistics in emerging areas of population research. HPC promotes innovative methodology beyond traditional demography to integrate systems science and computational modeling. HPC promotes exemplary interdisciplinary research that is translational to inform policy makers, with a priority on the growth of young investigators. Our research is rooted in four primary research areas: Poverty and Inequality Sexual and Reproductive Health Family, Maternal and Child Health Computational Population and Health Sciences
The French Institute for Demographic Studies or INED, is a public research institute specialized in population studies that works in partnership with the academic and research communities at national and international levels.
The IUSSP mission is to promote the scientific study of population, encourage exchange between researchers around the globe, and stimulate interest in population issues.-
LIFEWATCH GROUP
MASS EXTINCTION UNDERWAY The World Wide Web's Most Comprehensive Source of Information on the Current Mass Extinction
Especially in critical times, such as those faced today, it is essential to ensure that responses to migration are based on sound facts and accurate analysis. By making the evidence about migration issues accessible and easy to understand, the Portal aims to contribute to a more informed public debate.
Net migration to the UK is currently 246,000. If this continues, we will add half a million to the population every year. Over the long term, 75% of this growth will be due to immigration. This places huge pressure on public services. Read more here.
We must not simply stop population growth; we must turn it around. Since 1972, NPG has been making that case. We publish scholarly studies, call attention to valuable papers, support the distribution of books that make the case, support population student education, issue periodic newsletters and the monthly NPG Journal. We do not simply identify the problems, we propose solutions.-
Global Answers
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Over Population
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Over Population
Technicians are only too happy to point to technology that has solutions to all our problems up its sleeve. Unfortunately technical solutions have not as yet been able to combat world hunger in any significant way. Wherever there is no recognition or solving of the problems on a worldwide scale, war and violence would seem to be inevitable: everyone wants to survive. The only solution is a population policy applied on a worldwide scale. This site provides you – per language and, where possible, per country – with articles, films and images from all over the world showing what overpopulation is and why a population policy is important. Unfortunately too often any discussion of overpopulation or of population policies is taboo.
The Overpopulation Project studies the environmental impacts of overpopulation and explores humane policies to end population growth around the world.
The Population Association of America (PAA) is a nonprofit, scientific, professional organization established to promote the improvement, advancement and progress of the human condition through research of problems related to human population. PAA members include demographers, sociologists, economists, public health professionals, and other individuals interested in research and education in the population field. PAA membership has grown to 3,000 reflecting professional interest in the population field. Members receive Demography, the bi-monthly journal of the Association, and PAA Affairs, the quarterly on-line newsletter.-
People and the planet
PopPov is a group of academic researchers and funders from around the globe studying the ways that population dynamics affect economic outcomes.
Population publishes original studies on population questions by researchers in the fields of demography and the related disciplines of sociology, economics, anthropology, history, geography, epidemiology and public health. The journal publishes results of empirical research on all regions of the world, as well as methodological and theoretical studies.-
PAI
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Population Communication
Since 1968, Population Connection (formerly Zero Population Growth or ZPG) has been America’s voice for population stabilization—we are the largest grassroots population organization in the United States! We have more than 40,000 members, and hundreds of thousands more supporters and participating educators. Population Connection works to ensure that every woman around the world who wants to delay or end childbearing has access to the health services and contraceptive supplies she needs in order to do so.
The Population Council conducts research to address critical health and development issues. Our work allows couples to plan their families and chart their futures. We help people avoid HIV infection and access life-saving HIV services. And we empower girls to protect themselves and have a say in their own lives. We conduct research and programs in more than 50 countries. Our New York headquarters supports a global network of offices in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.
BALANCE's goals and activities are based on the relationships between population size, quality of life, and environmental impact. We believe that safeguarding the future of the U.S. depends upon achieving a balance between population and environment. After all, practically all of our environmental problems, and other quality of life issues, are to a significant degree caused, or exacerbated, by increasing population pressures.
The Population Institute is an international non-profit that educates policymakers and the public about population, and seeks to promote universal access to family planning information, education, and services. Through voluntary family planning, we strive to achieve a world population in balance with a healthy global environment and resource base.
What's my place in the world population? How long will I live? The Journey of your life in numbers and dates! Please enter your date of birth, country of birth and sex at birth:
At the heart of PMC’s work is a unique form of entertainment-education. PMC creates long-running dramas for TV, radio, and the web. These hit shows have a unique capacity for not only raising awareness among large numbers of people about critical issues such as women’s rights, reproductive health, and girls’ education – but for actually motivating audiences to adopt new behaviors. PMC has impacted people in more than 50 countries around the world.-
PopulationPyramid.net
EXPOSING THE FACTS ❂ Population control ❂ Overpopulation ❂ Climate Change ❂ Abortion
The Population & Sustainability Network, a global alliance, promotes sexual and reproductive health and rights as a critical element of sustainable development. The Network was launched as a Partnership for Sustainable Development under the UN Commission for Sustainable Development in 2004. The Network is administered and coordinated by the staff of the Margaret Pyke Trust, from their London offices.
In December 2006 the University of Lethbridge received an $8.25 million gift from John Prentice, a Calmar, Alberta based agri-business entrepreneur, award-winning agrologist, and industry leader, designed to launch the Prentice Institute for Global Population and Economy, a multi-disciplinary, cross-faculty institute dedicated to researching the long-term global impacts of demographic, economic and social issues related to changes in the world population patterns. The Institute was launched in 2009.
The Population Reference Bureau informs people around the world about population, health, and the environment, and empowers them to use that information to advance the well-being of current and future generations.
Our mission is to improve understanding within the U.S. scientific, educational and environmental communities of the fact of overpopulation and its social, economic and environmental consequences at both national and global levels. We advocate for U.S. population stabilization followed by its gradual reduction to a sustainable level by humane, non-coercive means. THINK GLOBALLY, ACT NATIONALLY!
Global Population Speakout | It's Time to Speak Out, Join the Campaign
Species Alliance is a nonprofit organization committed to raising public awareness of the mass extinction and its implications for humanity and the rest of the living world. We are dedicated to exploring and facilitating creative and effective responses. We aim to stimulate changes in public policies and human behavior which will assure a healthy future for life on Earth.
SUSPS' mission is to change Sierra Club population policy so that it once again comprehensively addresses U.S. population growth. We encourage you to vote for Sierra Club Board candidates who support the Club addressing the root cause of U.S. population growth.
An independent not-for-profit organisation seeking to protect the environment and our quality of life by ending population growth in Australia and globally.
If Earth’s history is squeezed into one year, modern human has existed for 37 minutes and used up a third of Earth’s natural resources in the last 0.2 seconds.
To increase awareness of increasing population growth
Truth or Drought is a science-based grassroots campaign making the undeniable connection between animal consumption and environmental breakdown. Mission: Our mission is to help inspire the vegan shift so urgently needed by our planet and its inhabitants.-
African Population Studies
UNFPA: Delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled. - See more at: http://www.unfpa.org/#sthash.qwckwNDE.dpuf
This Web site is an excellent source for statistics and other information about world population and related issues.
Phasing out the human race by voluntarily ceasing to breed will allow Earth’s biosphere to return to good health. Crowded conditions and resource shortages will improve as we become less dense.
To our knowledge we are the only population organization in the world that candidly promotes all of the following direct yet hopeful and empowering message: The world is significantly overpopulated right now. Overpopulation is Solvable. Successfully solving overpopulation will be an uphill battle. Yet, it is vastly easier than coping with overpopulation’s devastating consequences. And we can do it! We must successfully inspire and encourage people to choose having fewer children – below a two child average. By voluntarily choosing two – or, preferably one or none – total population will decline to a level where everyone can be properly supported, sustainably.
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World Population History
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World Population Review
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Population Facts, Statistics, and Comments
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Norm schriever
At the Center for Biological Diversity, we believe that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature — to the existence in our world of a vast diversity of wild animals and plants. Because diversity has intrinsic value, and because its loss impoverishes society, we work to secure a future for all species, great and small, hovering on the brink of extinction. We do so through science, law and creative media, with a focus on protecting the lands, waters and climate that species need to survive.
Humans are the new dinosaurs ... even scheduled our own extinction-
Population Education
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OVERPOPULATION LINKS
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It’s simple. If we can’t change our economic system, our number’s up It’s the great taboo of our age – and the inability to discuss the pursuit of perpetual growth will prove humanity’s undoing
Overpopulation, The Environment and Adoption: An Urgent Call to Action-
FIGU Landesgruppe Canada
News worth sharing
About nine out of ten of these young people live in less developed countries A whopping 1.59 billion young people live in the developing world, where they are more likely to face poverty and lack access to health care and education. Yet this is exactly where healthy, educated and empowered young people could make the most difference.
Earth Overshoot Day | marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year
According to the study, attempts to curb our population as a short-term fix will not work. If China's much criticised one-child policy was implemented worldwide, the Earth's population in 2100 would still be between five and 10 billion, it says.
Scientists more worried than public about world’s growing population
The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion-
Scientific American
Population and Sustainability: Can We Avoid Limiting the Number of People?
The equation seems fairly simple: The more the world's population rises, the greater the strain on dwindling resources and the greater the impact on the environment. The solution? Well, that's a little trickier to talk about.
Too Many People: The Case for Population Control
Population control may not be enough to conserve resources vital to global survival, according to a new study.
Rich people have smaller families but consume more resources. Curbing population growth is not on its own going to help the planet
"I've starred in many science fiction movies, and, let me tell you something, climate change is not science fiction. This is a battle in the real world, and it is impacting us right now."
Arnold Schwarzenegger
"We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain to look inward at ourselves on a small, increasingly polluted, overcrowded planet."
Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)