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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 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.
In 2007, Jeffrey Sachs gave a number of lectures (2007 Reith Lectures) about population planning and overpopulation. In his lectures, called "Bursting at the Seams", he featured an integrated approach that would deal with a number of problems associated with overpopulation and poverty reduction. For example, when criticized for advocating ...
The president views the pro-Trump faction, she said, as an “extreme threat to our democracy, to our freedom, to our rights. They just don’t respect the rule of law. They are pursuing an agenda ...
Malthus argued in his Essay (1798) that population growth generally expanded in times and in regions of plenty until the size of the population relative to the primary resources caused distress: Yet in all societies, even those that are most vicious, the tendency to a virtuous attachment [i.e., marriage] is so strong that there is a constant ...
The acceleration of artificial intelligence may already be disrupting democratic processes like elections and could even threaten human existence, AI experts warned at the Reuters NEXT conference ...
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.