The Sustainability of Human Populations: How many People can Live on Earth

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The Sustainability of Human Populations: How many People can Live on Earth

There is nothing new about the relationship between population size and land. As early as 470 BC, Plato asserted that „A suitable total for the number of citizens cannot be fixed without considering the land…‟ The Greeks, for all their knowledge at that time, could not even begin to conceive of the vast tracts of land that existed for human exploitation. They were therefore justifiably…

A Synopsis of CLIVE PONTING‘S A GREEN HISTORY OF THE WORLD

With an ever-increasing awareness of the effects of global warming on climate change and the pressing need to forecast — and try to ameliorate — the consequences of humankind‘s behaviour, many books have been written in recent years about the perils of the overpopulated, warming and post-oil world. But bearing in mind Churchill‘s words, I believe that it is imperative to supplement any…