There is a possibility here that colonization by a Neolithic rice growing population led to such high levels of population growth and environmental over-exploitation (deforestation?) that these islands were actually abandoned for agriculture for about 2000 years after 1500 BC.
The growing population led to an enormous interest in gambling; Wanderone, in partnership with fellow hustler Lassiter, quickly recognized the financial possibilities.
The growing population led to the construction of many back-to-back dwellings that, along with severe pollution from the factories, inspired George Orwell in 1937 to write: "Sheffield, I suppose, could justly claim to be called the ugliest town in the Old World".
A growing population led to supplementation of Antofagasta's water supply in the late 1950s with water from rivers with arsenic concentrations near 1,000 μg/L.
The pressure of a desperately poor and growing population has led to the indiscriminate felling of trees, for fuel as well as to increase cultivable acreage.
The growing population has led to adopt the On-site sanitation system as compared to conventional sewerage.
NPR reported that the growing population has led to a shark infiltration, and Cape Cod Today wrote a blogpost on April 1st implying that Barnstable County was putting a $20 bounty on every seal brought to the county sheriff's office.
"This is a face we have not seen in the land-use debate before". The effect of civilian development on military bases is increasingly an issue across the state, because the need to accommodate California's growing population has led to housing projects on land where the armed forces once had nearly free rein.
Kabul's rapidly growing population has led to a severe shortage of classrooms and overcrowding in schools.
True, Chicken Littles have been sounding alarms like this since Malthus published "An Essay on the Principle of Population," which says growing population rates will lead to poverty, in 1798.
