Population Archives - Resilience

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Crowd watching a sports event. Audience, Merfelder Bruch, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; Wildpferdefang 2014

Do we have room for a billion Americans?

By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights

A prominent journalist is pushing the idea that the United States embark on a program to triple its population. He completely ignores the environmental implications.

Resources for a Better Future: Population

By Anne Hendrixson, Diane Ojeda, Uneven Earth

As stated in A Renewed Call for Feminist Resistance to Population Control, we call for ways in which climate change can be tackled at the same time that we challenge racism and social injustice, including issues of sexual and reproductive health.

The Population Problem Problem

By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future

So while as individuals, as consumers, as parents or as non-parents, we agonize and sermonize over our own and others’ lifestyle choices, the oil companies will keep lobbying, and the GDP and emissions lines will keep tracking upwards until we reach a point of reckoning when the size of the human population or how many children anyone has will be the last of our concerns.

7.5 Billion and Counting: How Many Humans can the Earth Support?

By Andrew D. Hwang, The Conversation

This World Population Day, humans number in the vicinity of 7.5 to 7.6 billion individuals. Can the Earth support this many people indefinitely? What will happen if we do nothing to manage future population growth and total resource use?

Why we must talk about population

By Erik Assadourian, Resilience

Focusing on some of the tactics of stabilizing population growth without offering an understanding of the urgency of the crisis we face undermines overall population efforts.

Burning down the house

By Tom Butler, Musimbi Kanyoro, Resilience.org

Today is World Population Day (July 11). It’s time to talk about the size of the human family and the way we organize our economic activity (and not just today, on World Population Day), in language that is both honest and non-accusatory. It’s time to move beyond old arguments about whether population size or overconsumption is most culpable (both matter).

Does Anthropocene science blame all humanity?

By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism

Little support for actual Malthusian policies can be found in scientific literature about the Anthropocene. Population growth is included as one element of the Great Acceleration, which it obviously is, but it isn’t identified as the main problem.

OVERdevelopment, OVERpopulation, OVERshoot

By William Ryerson, Population Institute, Population Media Center, and Foundation for Deep Ecology

In reality, every discussion about population involves people, the world that our children and grandchildren will live to see and the health of the planet that supports all life.