Population

Another inconvenient truth: the world’s growing population poses a malthusian dilemma

By 2050, the world will host nine billion people—and that’s if population growth slows in much of the developing world. Today, at least one billion people are chronically malnourished or starving. Simply to maintain that sad state of affairs would require the clearing (read: deforestation) of 900 million additional hectares of land, according to Pedro

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People could be threat to ecology

The Rudd government will consider adding ”human population growth” to a key list of ecological threats that underpins Australia’s environmental laws. Environment Minister Peter Garrett has confirmed that population growth will be weighed up to determine whether it represents a ”threatening process” responsible for widespread biodiversity loss, water pollution, coastal erosion and rising greenhouse gas

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