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Scholar Heather Alberro rejects the overpopulation argument, stating that the human population growth is rapidly slowing down, the underlying problem is not the number of people, but how resources are distributed and that the idea of overpopulation could fuel a racist backlash against the population of poor countries.
Overpopulation or overabundance is a state in which the population of a species is larger than the carrying capacity of its environment.This may be caused by increased birth rates, lowered mortality rates, reduced predation or large scale migration, leading to an overabundant species and other animals in the ecosystem competing for food, space, and resources.
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 ...
A 2021 article published in Sustainability Science said that sensible population policies could advance social justice (such as by abolishing child marriage, expanding family planning services and reforms that improve education for women and girls) and avoid the abusive and coercive population control schemes of the past while at the same time ...
Don't Panic — The Truth about Population is a 2013 documentary about human overpopulation produced by Wingspan Productions and The Open University for the BBC as part of the This World series and presented by Swedish statistician Hans Rosling of the Gapminder Foundation.
Examples of animal overpopulation caused by introduction of a foreign species abound. In the Argentine Patagonia, for example, European species such as the trout and the deer were introduced into the local streams and forests, respectively, and quickly became a plague, competing with and sometimes driving away the local species of fish and ...
Over the past 60 years, the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies has expanded its focus on overpopulation to examine relevant questions involving demographic shifts, resources, health, and the environment. The Center engages over 75 faculty members from multiple disciplines in order to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration.
Pages in category "Human overpopulation" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...