Last year, the world population reached 7,000,000,000. At the time, the media and blogosphere briefly erupted in a war of editorials arguing overpopulation, but for most of Earth's citizens, life went ...

Doris Lin is an animal rights attorney and the Director of Legal and Government Affairs for the Animal Protection League of New Jersey. Her focuses as an expert writer include animal rights and ...

Colin Butler is a Future Fellow, funded by the Australian Research Council. He is co-founder of the NGO BODHI (www.bodhi.net.au) which seeks to improve human carrying capacity, especially in Asia. The ...

"The power of population is so superior to the power of the Earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race." The late-18th century ...

Humans' actions can have a major impact. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. There are nearly 8 billion people living on Earth today, ...