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Record melt from Greenland icesheet in 2010 - Yahoo! News
"Were adding 77 million energy-consuming people to the planet every year." Not one politician (including Al Gore) has talked about population growth in regards to many of our problems!
"The global rate of human population growth peaked around 1963, but the number of people living on Earthand sharing finite resources like water and foodhas grown by more than two-thirds since then, topping out at over 6.6 billion today. Human population is expected to exceed nine billion by 2050. Environmentalists dont dispute that many if not all of the environmental problemsfrom climate change to species loss to overzealous resource extractionare either caused or exacerbated by population growth.
Trends such as the loss of half of the planets forests, the depletion of most of its major fisheries, and the alteration of its atmosphere and climate are closely related to the fact that human population expanded from mere millions in prehistoric times to over six billion today, says Robert Engelman of Population Action International"
Population Growth - How Global Population Growth is Creating Serious Environmental Problems
"Were adding 77 million energy-consuming people to the planet every year." Not one politician (including Al Gore) has talked about population growth in regards to many of our problems!
"The global rate of human population growth peaked around 1963, but the number of people living on Earthand sharing finite resources like water and foodhas grown by more than two-thirds since then, topping out at over 6.6 billion today. Human population is expected to exceed nine billion by 2050. Environmentalists dont dispute that many if not all of the environmental problemsfrom climate change to species loss to overzealous resource extractionare either caused or exacerbated by population growth.
Trends such as the loss of half of the planets forests, the depletion of most of its major fisheries, and the alteration of its atmosphere and climate are closely related to the fact that human population expanded from mere millions in prehistoric times to over six billion today, says Robert Engelman of Population Action International"
Population Growth - How Global Population Growth is Creating Serious Environmental Problems