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The growth of human population, which Malthus believed had peaked during his lifetime, has risen relentlessly and rapidly over the past three centuries.
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Science plays an important role in our response to global issues such as climate change, the hydrological cycle, biodiversity loss, natural hazards and human-induced disasters, population growth, land-use change, migration and urbanisation.
UNESCO: UK National Commission for UNESCO :: Environmental Science
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The report contends that the main cause of the damage is the growth in the human population and associated economic activities.
ECONOMIST: Deforestation and floods
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Providing modern contraception also has the potential to stem population growth and relieve human pressure on the environment and natural resources.
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The continuing increase of human population in most developing countries and the rapid growth of consumption in the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) and in the emerging Mini-BRICS (Mexico, Turkey, South Korea, the Philippines, and Indonesia) are also of great concern.
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The world's past wealth creation is outstripped every generation by innovation, human progress and the rapid growth of the above-subsistence population.
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Yet the report itself makes no proposal to stem the absolute growth in human numbers, and no mention of population policy or contraception.
BBC: Harrabin's Notes: Population overload?
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Given the myriad of other reasons to limit human fertility (Dr Potts notes, for example, that slowing population growth is essential if poverty is to be eradicated), your correspondent cannot help but commend the report to mandarins meeting in Bangkok on September 28th to discuss the forthcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
ECONOMIST: Fewer people would mean lower greenhouse-gas emissions
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We want and need to have economic growth as that is the only way we know of to reduce population growth (quite apart from the fact that we also need it to abolish human poverty, something of a desirable goal).
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