Sentence examples for human overpopulation from inspiring English sources

As with climate disruption, this is one more case of human overpopulation threatening civilisation.

"This is really human overpopulation," said Susan Russell, policy director for the Center for Animal Protection, a newly formed research and advocacy group based in Rumson.

It was first described by a 19th-century British economist and popularized by the biologist Garrett Hardin in a 1968 Science magazine essay about human overpopulation.

22) is yet another poignant and frightening reminder of how immensely destructive a force human overpopulation is, especially when that force is multiplied many times over by modern technology and economic policies bent on perpetual growth.

On the other hand, it has always been a mystery to me why so many people and institutions fail to recognise that the main problem of our earth is human overpopulation.

Habitat destruction, invasive species, pollution, human overpopulation, over-harvesting, wildlife trade and general human consumption are major contributors to the enormous biodiversity loss that has earth scientists and experts gravely concerned, Wolf noted.

Both are concerned, for example, with resolving such "applied" environmental problems as air and water pollution, use of natural resources, human overconsumption and overpopulation.

Complex humanitarian emergencies (CHEs) are associated with a variety of factors, such as war, poverty, overpopulation, human-caused environmental destruction and change, and natural disasters.

Paramount's quirky comedy "Downsizing," centered around shrinking humans to combat overpopulation, continues to have undersized box office earnings.

1977's "Gateway" was one of Pohl's many books that explored human space exploration after overpopulation and the depletion of Earth's resources; the Times called it an "adventurous, extrapolative, and insightful novel".

OO Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot: Humans' Staggering Effect On Earth, full of graphic images of consumption, addressing environmental deterioration through subjects including materialism, consumption, pollution, fossil fuels and carbon footprints -- and the population growth that is fueling this.