All you wanted to know about overpopulation. The environmental effects of population growth and solutions to this highly neglected global issue.
Population growth is a major step-back in terms of making any significant progress in reducing global environmental impacts. While most nations agree that something needs to be done, most models do not seem to include the human growth factor in the picture. Let’s say that average world enviro...
The different environmental issues that are brought up with human activity are intense and sometimes the effects are not seen immediately but they do have an effect on the surrounding environment. First, I will elaborate one the different issues and explain what they include. The first being Biodi...
1. Overpopulation is a major cause of many problems, including energy and food crises, and environmental damage. 2. Despite government warnings, some factories continue to overproduce wastes, worsening the environment. 3. Artificial light's negative impacts on human bodies cannot be underestimated. ...
climate change and environmental pollution are arisen as a result of rapid population growth (Coleman, 2011; Edet et al., 2014). This chapter reviews the impacts of overpopulation on environment, indicates future perspectives and provides some recommendation to combat the adverse impact of overpopulati...
“superior races”. These claims have been revived today by the far right, who promote conspiracy theories about “white replacement” and “white genocide”. When affluent white people wrongly transfer the blame for their environmental impacts on to the birthrate of much poorer brown and...
Environmental degradation is one of the most threatening global challenges currently faced by humankind1. In recent years, environmentalists and policymakers have paid considerable attention to the growing impacts of greenhouse gases (GHGs) on global warming. The prime focus of all countries, especially...
Table 3: Impacts of consumption and population on global ecological sustainability. National population densities have been calculated as the ratio between national population and national biocapacity, not national area. All data are updated to 2016. ...
water pollution, and new virus that infect humans. Low life expectancy in countries with fastest growing populations • Increased chance of the emergence of new epidemics and pandemics For many environmental and social reasons, including overcrowded living conditions, ...
Increased chance of the emergence of new epidemics and pandemics For many environmental and social reasons, including overcrowded living conditions, malnutrition and inadequate, inaccessible, or non-existent health care, the poor are more likely to be exposed to infectious diseases. ...