What Is the Carrying Capacity of Earth?
Alex Casey, Communications Fellow, reports on a conversation she had with Joel E. Cohen, author of How Many People Can the Earth Support? What Does Carrying Capacity Mean? Did you know that the term we use to try to determine the number of people the planet can support is the same one used by sailors […]
State of World Population, 50 Years Ago and Today
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) turns 50 this year. To mark the occasion, the multilateral agency’s annual State of World Population report includes a timeline of the agency’s work and the of events that shaped it into the organization it is today: an organization the United States isn’t funding under the Trump administration. In […]
