Created: 1995. Updated: 4 February 2012
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Population and Sustainability

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Did you know that world population reached 6 billion on October 12, 1999, and will reach 9.3 billion by 2050? The impacts of continued population growth are already felt by a majority of nations. U.S. population, too, has grown from 152 million in 1950 to 270 million today, a 78% increase. We have doubled in 58 years. Growing at 3,000,000 per year, U.S. population is expected to approach half a billion people in 50 years!
 
Overpopulation is the root cause of most environmental problems. The demands of increasing population magnify demands for natural resources, clean air and water, as well as access to wilderness areas. Unless we start stacking people in high-rises, this means an increased demand for living space, with the inevitable result of more sprawl. The quality of life for future generations hinges on stabilizing both domestic and world population.
 
 
What's new:
Excellent www.SprawlCity.org presents new reports using U.S. Census Bureau data to show how population growth is highly correlated with sprawl.
 
Excellent The Environmental Movement's Retreat from Advocating U.S. Population Stabilization
by Roy Beck and Leon Kolankiewicz.
This article is highly recommended to all population activists, environmentalists, and funders of environmental organizations. It examines in detail the events leading to abandonment of domestic population stabilization efforts by major environmental organizations. ZPG and Sierra Club are used as case studies in the article.

 
 
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Basic Information -
Is the World Overpopulated?
Action Alerts
U.S. Domestic Overpopulation Reference Material
Organizations Discussion and News Lists
Reports and Publications Books and Media
Data Sources and Graphs Interesting Links
Terms and definitions New!! Solutions

 
 
 
The Great Challenge
 
Can you think of any problem
in any area of human endeavor
on any scale, from microscopic to global,
whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way
aided, assisted, or advanced
by further increases in population,
locally, nationally, or globally?

 
-- Prof. A.A. Bartlett

 

World population is increasing at a rate of
6.6 million per month!
U.S. population is increasing at a rate of
approximately 50,000 per week!

 
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