The connection between population growth and environmental degradation seems clear enough – the more people there are, the more greenhouse gases are emitted and the more resources are consumed.
It took me two years to read a book that had a significant impact on my thinking on environmental issues – The Party's Over by Richard Hienberg, about the connection between population growth, energy supply, and peak oil.
According to MIT researcher Wei Pan, there is a connection between population density and innovation that she calls "social-tie density": the denser a city is, the more interactions people will have, and the more innovative the city will be (and the more patents it will produce).
A crucial element downplayed by most contemporary accounts is the connection between population level issues, such as population size, mating strategies, etc., and the properties of inheritance systems.
The students created 60-second videos on the connection between population and one of three topics: climate change, global poverty and water sustainability.
There's the connection between population growth and poverty; population growth and food security; population growth and climate change; population growth and human rights; and the list goes on and on.
In the first place video for the sixth mass extinction category, Katherine Selley and Catherine Knox depicted the connection between population growth and species loss using snippets of footage collected during some of their international travels.
I'd be lying if I said that much of my time isn't spent thinking about the connection between population -- that is, human population growth -- and every facet of life as we know it (who said insomnia was a bad thing?).
