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  2. Human overpopulation - Wikipedia

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    [237] In the actual world today, excessive procreation could also undermine our descendants' right to have children, since people are likely to refrain (and perhaps should refrain) from bringing children into an insecure and dangerous world. Meijers, Sarah Conly, Diana Coole, and other ethicists conclude that people have a right to found a ...

  3. Don't Panic — The Truth about Population - Wikipedia

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    Rosling states that this number is representative worldwide, the reason why the total number of children globally is now at a stable level of 2 billions. According to him, the so-called population explosion has already been overcome. The human population will peak at eleven billions, and stabilize at this level by the end of the century.

  4. The Cost of Overpopulation Around the World - AOL

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    Living costs are a big overpopulation problem. Living costs are a big overpopulation problem. Skip to main content. Subscriptions; Animals. Business. Entertainment. Fitness. Food ...

  5. Population Control: Real Costs, Illusory Benefits - Wikipedia

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    Population Control is a detailed exposition on the global effort to combat overpopulation, arguing that not only population control is immoral in many cases, but that overpopulation is a myth. [1] Mosher was first exposed to population control policies when he visited China as an undergraduate sociologist in 1979 to conduct anthropological ...

  6. Crowds can suddenly turn deadly. New research has clues that ...

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    But what's dangerous isn't the crowd itself, he said, it's their uncontrolled motion. Even with what he's learned about crowd dynamics and the potential for disaster, Gu still recommended visiting ...

  7. Demographics of the world - Wikipedia

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    The current world population growth is approximately 1.09%. [5] People under 15 years of age made up over a quarter of the world population (25.18%), and people age 65 and over made up nearly ten percent (9.69%) in 2021. [5] The world's literacy rate has increased dramatically in the last 40 years, from 66.7% in 1979 to 86.3% today. [13]

  8. Bill Gates says younger generations should be worried about 4 ...

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    In a blog post in 2023, Gates said that as his family grew, so did his desire to better the world. "A grandchild does make you think about how we make sure the future is better — politics ...

  9. Global catastrophe scenarios - Wikipedia

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    An ice age would have a serious impact on civilization because vast areas of land (mainly in North America, Europe, and Asia) could become uninhabitable. Currently, the world is in an Interglacial period within a much older glacial event. The last glacial expansion ended about 10,000 years ago, and all civilizations evolved later than this.