A selection of articles on the “overpopulation” debate. Ian Angus and Simon Butler open the hostilities on “overpopulation”: Even in the rich countries of the Global North, most environmental destruction is caused not by individuals or households, but by mines, factories, and power plants run by corporations that care more about profit than about humanity’s [...]
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Stuff to read
Posted in population growth on November 2, 2011 | 4 Comments »
If you want to save the world
Posted in population growth, tagged videos on December 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Dedicated to those who point at overpopulation as the source of climate change.
The overpopulation argument is racist and neo-colonial
Posted in population growth on October 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve written about this earlier (link). Now, George Monbiot shatters the overpopulation argument citing an article on Environment and Urbanization that shows a negative correlation between population growth and CO2 emissions growth (link). As Monbiot puts it, in one of his best articles ever, what matters is how much we consume, not how many people [...]
