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It was speculated by Aldous Huxley in 1958 that democracy is threatened by overpopulation, and could give rise to totalitarian style governments. [180] Physics professor Albert Allen Bartlett at the University of Colorado Boulder warned in 2000 that overpopulation and the development of technology are the two major causes of the diminution of ...
Population Control: Real Costs, Illusory Benefits is a nonfiction book by Steven W. Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute, first published in 2008. 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 ...
The practice, traditionally referred to as population control, had historically been implemented mainly with the goal of increasing population growth, though from the 1950s to the 1980s, concerns about overpopulation and its effects on poverty, the environment and political stability led to efforts to reduce population growth rates in many ...
Critics have called it “a real threat to democracy,” “a far-right assault on America” and a “dystopian plot.” Institutions such as Georgetown University have called elements like the ...
The root problem in all but one of Diamond's factors leading to collapse is overpopulation relative to the practicable (as opposed to the ideal theoretical) carrying capacity of the environment. One environmental problem not related to overpopulation is the harmful effect of accidental or intentional introduction of non-native species to a region.
Are Democrats really a threat to democracy? Palm Beach Post readers react to a letter writer's claim that it's the Democrats undermining America.
Seventy-six percent of likely voters say democracy is “currently under threat,” while only 20 percent say it’s not under threat. Another four percent say they don’t know or refused to answer.
Graph of human population from 10,000 BC to 2017 AD. It shows the extremely rapid growth in the world population since the eighteenth century. The Population Bomb was written at the suggestion of David Brower, the executive director of the environmentalist Sierra Club, and Ian Ballantine of Ballantine Books following various public appearances Ehrlich had made regarding population issues and ...