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Mongabay: Climate change, biodiversity loss, resource depletion, water scarcity, and land issues: almost all of the world's environmental problems are underpinned by too many people inhabiting a finite planet. A new study in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B warns that overpopulation-combined with over-consumption-is threatening to push the entire globe into "a collapse of global civilization." But cultural changes, especially more empowerment of women and access to contraceptives, may hold the key to......
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Scientists: stop treating population growth as a ‘given’ and empower women
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 27th, 2013
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