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More recent discussion of overpopulation was popularized by Paul Ehrlich in his 1968 book The Population Bomb and subsequent writings. [12] [13] Ehrlich described overpopulation as a function of overconsumption, [14] arguing that overpopulation should be defined by a population being unable to sustain itself without depleting non-renewable ...
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 ...
In the 1980s, tension grew between population planning advocates and women's health activists who advanced women's reproductive rights as part of a human rights-based approach. [31] Growing opposition to the narrow population planning focus led to a significant change in population planning policies in the early 1990s.
At the 2010 census, Texas had a population of 25.1 million—an increase of 4.3 million since the year 2000, involving an increase in population in all three subcategories of population growth: natural increase (births minus deaths), net immigration, and net migration. Texas added almost 4 million people between the 2010 and 2020 census'. [9]
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.
Chronic wasting disease, or CWD, poses a serious threat to Texas’ deer population, especially in light of the recent outbreak in captive deer — with more than 15 new CWD-positive facilities ...
The looming end of Roe v. Wade comes just as family planning efforts are getting squeezed.
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.