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Overpopulation


Having considered some of the ways that humanity is destroying its inheritance, we can look more closely at the concept of "." All too often, is thought of simply as crowding: too many people in a given area, too high a population density. For instance, the deputy editor in chief of Forbes magazine pointed out recently, in connection with a plea for more population growth in the United States: "If all the people from China and India lived in the continental U.S. (excluding Alaska), this country would still have a smaller population density than England, Holland, or Belgium." *31
The appropriate response is "So what?" Density is generally irrelevant to questions of . For instance, if ...

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of that in the United Kingdom. Even by 2020, Africa's effective density is projected to grow to only about that of France today (266), and few people would consider France excessively crowded or overpopulated.
When people think of crowded countries, they usually contemplate places like the Netherlands (1,031 per square mile), Taiwan (1,604), or Hong Kong (14,218). Even those don't necessarily signal —after all, the Dutch seem to be thriving, and doesn't Hong Kong have a booming economy and fancy hotels? In short, if density were the standard of , few nations (and certainly not Earth itself) would be likely to be considered overpopulated in the near future. The error, we repeat, lies in trying to define in terms of density; it has long been recognized that density per se means very little. *34
The key to understanding is not population density but the numbers of people in an area relative to its resources and the capacity of the environment to sustain human activities; that is, to ...

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Added: 12/1/2008 11:35:13 AM
Category: Social Issues
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