Why Don’t Environmental Groups Talk About Human Population Growth?
Most of the United States-based environmental groups do acknowledge that human population growth is a contributing factor to environmental degradation and the strain placed on natural resources (see this blog post by the Natural Resources Defense Council, this blog post by Conservation International, this page on the World Wildlife Fund website, and this event description […]
Making the Population Connection this Earth Day
Preserving our beautiful planet has been central to Population Connection’s mission since it was founded as Zero Population Growth in 1968. Our members know that every single environmental challenge — including climate change — is made more difficult by a continually growing population. Earth Day is this Saturday, April 22, and Population Connection members and […]
What Is the Carrying Capacity of Earth?
It depends. Joel Cohen is the professor and mathematician who most famously tried to calculate a definitive number, in his book How Many People Can the Earth Support? His success was in admitting that he couldn’t determine a sustainable limit for human population because that limit depends on how people live their lives and what […]
