Posts Tagged ‘overpopulation’

• David Attenborough asks corporations to protect wilderness from overpopulation

  Regular readers of Climate & Capitalism know that David Attenborough, in addition to making nature films, is a patron of Optimum Population Trust, a British outfit that, using the name Population Matters, promotes birth control for poor people and immigration …

• There is virtually no possibility that global population will ever reach 15bn

  The world’s population will soon pass 7 Billion, and the United Nations Population Fund will mark that milestone this week by releasing its annual State of World Population report. On October 22 the UK Guardian claimed that the report will …

• The dirty side of the British Royal Wedding

  Did the Royal Wedding set a new record for greenhouse gas emissions produced by a one-day event? A while back, in an article about a bizarre scheme to let people in Britain offset their carbon emissions by paying for birth …

• Overpopulation is not the problem – overconsumption by the rich few is

  I often hear people saying that overpopulation is the main problem to our environmental and ecological problems. Some people even claim that it’s responsible for global warming. I also agreed with this idea before. But after reading more about the …

• Carbon in numbers – Weighing in on the sources that add to the planet’s greenhouse gases

  Photo credit: Taras Kalapun The environmental footprint per capita in developed countries is more than 10 tones per year. For example, 10,8 tones of carbon is emitted per capita by British, 12,7 per capita by Greek and 22,4 tones per …

• Overpopulation

  Six billion people. That’s the current human population on Earth, and the highest ever reached as well. Things start to get cramped in the cities, while there is everywhere a noticeable depressing atmosphere due to having too many people around, …

• Rainforests and deforestation

  Inside the Rainforest – Cape Tribulation – Queensland – Australia. Photo: Rob Inh00d. Tropical rainforests have the largest biodiversity of all ecosystems on Earth. The soil is rather poor, but it sustains a great variety of plants. It is estimated …