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2 unusual facts about Human overpopulation


Demographics of Budapest

The city became extremely overcrowded, the central government also noticed the problem so limited getting apartment in 1965, preventing overpopulation, housing shortage and the collapse of public works.

The Wanting Seed

Although the novel addresses many societal issues, the primary subject is overpopulation and its relation to culture.


Andasibe-Mantadia National Park

This disappearance has been caused primarily by logging and replacement of rainforest with commercial Australian eucalyptus and Chinese pine forests, and to a lesser extent by slash-and-burn cultivation for rice agriculture, which is exacerbated by the extremely high population growth rate and poverty in rural Madagascar.

Planet in Peril

CNN's Anderson Cooper, Sanjay Gupta and Animal Planet's Jeff Corwin investigate the current state of our planet, focusing on four major areas: global warming, overpopulation, deforestation and species loss.


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Irruptive growth

As Thomas Malthus described in his essay on the Principle of Population, human overpopulation is a serious issue, and one which can only become more pressing.