Okay, well, the biggest problem is if you get overpopulation.
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That sounds like the route to an overpopulation apocalypse, right?
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In this distant future, overpopulation has spiraled out of control.
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Magnifying crises resulting from global overpopulation, explained in five charts.
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Demographers now admit that the overpopulation alarmism of yesteryear was misplaced.
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Apparently, inclusiveness to the point of overpopulation is a thing now.
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The dog overpopulation in southern states is still out of control.
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In the 1960s, fears of overpopulation sparked campaigns for population control.
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We live in an era of overpopulation and mass housing shortages.
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Fears of overpopulation due to immigration are short-sighted, according to Musk.
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Overpopulation will be a terrible strain on natural resources and state services.
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Overpopulation, wrote Malthus, could potentially deplete the earth's resources, and Darwin agreed.
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The anti-nuclear-power movement did not arise from concerns about overpopulation.
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I can imagine that device is a planet of microorganisms suffering from overpopulation.
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Considering all that, why are people—not just movie villains—worried about overpopulation?
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Thanos effectively retires to the countryside, his dream of stopping universal overpopulation achieved.
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And please remember to spay and neuter your pets to prevent pet overpopulation.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Japan has a problem with cormorant overpopulation.
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Shelters across the country are overwhelmed with pets who need homes due to overpopulation.
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After Singapore won independence in 1965, many feared that overpopulation would hamper economic growth.
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"You are humanity's final hope," Zobrist warns at the outset of the overpopulation threat.
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Worst of all, the rationale behind these abuses—fear of overpopulation—is fundamentally misguided.
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Experts say Jakarta's growth and overpopulation has become unsustainable due to rising sea levels.
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It also offers visualizations of how deer overpopulation affects Appalachia, where the reserve is.
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If we have issues with overpopulation now, just image the future impact on the planet.
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Rose looks directly and clearly at overpopulation, history, disastrous urban planning, terrorism and utopian dreams.
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Another daunting challenge is ignorance of the connection between overpopulation and climate change, as Sen.
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Many will cheer this development, pointing to overpopulation and the stress put on the environment.
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To avoid overpopulation, people called Scythes are commanded to take the lives of chosen victims.
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Conservationists are grappling with the consequences of deer overpopulation, which is throwing ecosystems out of whack.
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Kids are encourage to harvest the larva to avoid overpopulation with a bit of dry roasting.
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It is about heritage, nostalgia and identity; about overpopulation and migration and the threats they pose.
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Both games warn of the conflicts that will come with overpopulation and colonization of distant worlds.
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Their argument is that strict immigration policies prevent overpopulation, and thus reduce stress on the environment.
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For all that, nothing indicates that the newly teeming galaxy is in imminent danger of overpopulation.
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Are groundwater extraction, overpopulation, corruption and climate change creating an unsolvable water crisis in Mexico City?
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This view implies that we could be suffering from an underpopulation problem, not an overpopulation problem.
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Through education, they are putting an end to the cycle of pet overpopulation, abuse, neglect, and euthanasia.
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"Overpopulation is eating everything," said Dr. Amr A. Nadim, an obstetrician-gynecologist at Ain Ain Shams University.
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"Overpopulation was not a sexy subject," John says, reflecting on why nothing was done to curb it.
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The swinging church music on the radio is interrupted for a special announcement about the world's overpopulation.
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Famine isn't caused by overpopulation, and as Ethiopia's experience shows, it's not a necessary consequence of drought.
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In our lab, we exposed study participants to false information about terrorist incidents, overpopulation, and pathogen outbreaks.
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Despite the overpopulation in Schumann's reputedly muddy orchestration, Mr. Salonen elicited a crisp, lively and appealing performance.
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Though I'm not so sure adopting monikers like Pegasus and leprechaun will really solve the unicorn overpopulation problem.
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They are generally nocturnal, so seeing one in the day might mean disruption of routine due to overpopulation.
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You see, he's concerned about overpopulation, and the scarcity of resources plaguing almost every planet in the universe.
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The bottom line: Just before the fertility rates plummeted in the '70s, there was spreading concern for overpopulation.
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But the truth is that overpopulation in the United States is not even close to a serious problem.
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When it comes to wild horses, the United States government is unambiguous: America has a mustang overpopulation problem.
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She said it was unclear whether this was because of gray whale overpopulation, melting ice caps or both.
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With an estimated twenty-one million inhabitants crammed together, Lagos could easily serve as a symbol of overpopulation.
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In much of the world over the last 50 years, there's been a lot of panic about overpopulation.
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It needs to be addressed, but luckily, like the overpopulation one, it's a really easy one to address.
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This is a great country, and if you can get to Finland, don&apost, because overpopulation will destroy it.
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She had so many ideas and she was actually very knowledgable about the subjects — overpopulation and genetically modified foods.
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Moreover, to the extent women want birth control, family planning is a social good that may help prevent overpopulation.
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However, the threat of overpopulation is still a complicated issue that could impact the world economy and environment. 2.
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Overpopulation brings ecological destruction, and with ecological destruction comes the starvation of some of those wild horses and burros.
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In a country that argues over everything else, overpopulation, it seems, is one issue we never want to address.
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We need to learn how to deal with resource supply, overpopulation, disease, ethnic conflict, and many more rising issues.
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Alexander Payne, the director of "Nebraska" and "Sideways," takes on a science fiction premise about the problem of overpopulation.
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For decades, we have been terrified by dreadful visions of civilization-ending overpopulation, resource shortages, pollution and nuclear war.
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That billionaire is one Carlton Drake, who's supposedly very concerned about Earth's current state of waste, pollution, and overpopulation.
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"My biggest irrational, hopefully, fear is that the Zika virus is going to be the solution to overpopulation," she shared.
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These community cats produce around 80% of the kittens born in the US each year, adding to the overpopulation concern.
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The guide also includes facts that justify cannibalism as a potential solution to global issues like overpopulation and food shortages.
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The writer, Charles Cobb, described a country in deep despair, afflicted by political corruption, violence, overpopulation, disease and crushing poverty.
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It's ostensibly set in Columbus, Ohio, 30 years in the future, in a world overwhelmed by climate change and overpopulation.
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Can you come up with a humane way to solve the problem of overpopulation of wild horses in the West?
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With no natural predators, a large portion of goldfish offspring survive to reproductive age, continuing a cycle of rampant overpopulation.
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He's right to worry about the exhaustion of resources, but wrong to blame overpopulation, rather than overconsumption, as the culprit.
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"David was messianic about overpopulation," Virginia Carter, a former executive of Mr. Lear's production companies, said in a telephone interview.
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The momentum suffers from the narrative's overpopulation; and Slezkine falls into digressions about the Exodus, Armageddon and repressed memory theory.
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The urchin's overpopulation is the result of a disease that wiped out sea stars, their top predator, beginning in 2013.
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He also argued vigorously that overpopulation would no longer be problematic as the world grew wealthier and fertility rates declined.
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Downsizing is the solution to our overpopulation problem and our growing disillusionment with the American dream, all in one fell swoop.
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The satire explores how overpopulation and rising inflation could lead people to make drastic decisions in order to live lush lives.
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And resistance to radical life …Read more ReadOur planet, with its 7.4 billion people, is already dealing with an overpopulation problem.
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Their foe, the titan Thanos, is working on Malthusian logic, claiming to be doing what's necessary to save existence from overpopulation.
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Because the Middle East, particularly Iran, is becoming an environmental disaster area — running out of water, with rising desertification and overpopulation.
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Homebuyers are typically relocating to cheaper metro areas and the suburbs, but that move has resulted in tougher commutes and overpopulation.
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So in the case of overpopulation, essentially I point to the fact that fertility rates are already plummeting in many areas.
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"There has been a 'social purification' drive aimed at preventing the overpopulation of migrants and unemployed youth in the cities," he said.
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They serve as fodder for Drake's experiments, meant to save humanity from destruction at the hands of disease, climate change and overpopulation.
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These challenges are global and serious – climate change, food production, overpopulation, the decimation of other species, epidemic disease, acidification of the oceans.
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The plan has many holes in it, but Thanos isn't the first to concern himself with overpopulation and the depletion of resources.
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The project is not intended to promote cannibalism, but address global issues such as lack of resources, overpopulation, and issues around consumerism.
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"This tragic incident exemplifies the problem the Navajo Nation faces in an overpopulation of feral horses," said Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye.
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"Obviously there is a problem with deer overpopulation on Long Island," New York State Assemblyman Fred Thiele said in a recent interview.
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The farm was dealing with a duck overpopulation problem, and Zach had selected one of the older ones to be our dinner.
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The closing of the Calais camp led to the arrival of Afghans in Grande-Synthe, creating overpopulation and tensions with the Kurds.
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He says the traffic congestion, air pollution and high housing costs that afflict big cities result from poor management rather than overpopulation.
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The resulting evolution of ideas will consistently allow humankind to improve its living conditions, despite the threats of climate change and overpopulation.
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But yes, overpopulation is the single biggest concern that people raise, and I have basically three levels of answers to these questions.
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Langdon and Brooks unravel clues that eventually lead to the disovery that Zobrist has created a killer virus—apparently he's obsessed with overpopulation.
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Worrying about it is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars before colonists have even set foot there, says Andrew Ng, an AI researcher.
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The monochromatic palette enhances this bleak story, where people are required to jack into a "postmortem social network" in order to combat overpopulation.
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"Those in power behind the scenes have brought this Trump to solve the world's greatest problem: overpopulation," said Hossein Darbani, a wealthy farmer.
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This "greening of hate" keys into long-standing Malthusian panics about scarcity and overpopulation as the great threats to civilization and global order.
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Spotting a deer in your backyard might sound like a lot of fun, but deer overpopulation is a problem, and can disturb ecosystems.
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And she has a bulletproof way of preventing overpopulation, too: by literally bullying her subjects into infertility, so she has exclusive breeding rights.
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But the effects of the vaccinations last only a year to 18 months, and the results have not adequately addressed overpopulation, she said.
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The country suffers from overpopulation, with one of the highest birthrates in the world, and ranks as one of the world's poorest nations.
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"They predicted an overpopulation crisis in the 1960s, mass starvation in the '70s, and an end of oil in the 1990s," Trump said.
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Malthus was a minister and economics professor who was inordinately interested in the effect of overpopulation of England's larger cities, most notably London.
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I would suggest that all are superseded by the possibility that we, as a species, are responding to the many stresses of overpopulation.
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Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, who had attended gatherings with Epstein, told the Times that Epstein had more or less advocated letting the impoverished die off because of "overpopulation":At one session at Harvard, Mr. Epstein criticized efforts to reduce starvation and provide health care to the poor because doing so increased the risk of overpopulation, said Mr. Pinker, who was there.
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Author: Susan Hockfield Description: With climate change, extreme weather, and overpopulation threatening our way of life, neuroscientist Susan Hockfield says biology will be crucial.
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Among the causes of this global disaster in slow motion is industrial pollution, ecosystem fragmentation, habitat destruction, overexploitation, overpopulation, and of course climate change.
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The researcher's study also excluded other variables, notably "density population," which leads to wolf populations shrinking as some packs move out due to overpopulation.
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The UN warned it will be "unlivable" for its 2 million occupants by 2020, considering its lack of access to basic resources and overpopulation.
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Yet even without the climate changing, we still have all of the negative effects of basic human overpopulation, and the incredible decline of wildlife.
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The procedure is supposed to be a way to address overpopulation and global warming, but it is also increases the value of your money.
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The Bureau of Land Management is conducting the research in an attempt to find ways to control overpopulation of wild horses across the country.
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If the world ended, it would be because of the goddamn Ruskies, not melting ice caps, overpopulation, water shortages, sick cattle, and drying crops.
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We don't necessarily have an overpopulation problem, but we certainly have an inequality problem, and we seem to need more resources than we have.
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This explosive growth concerns leaders at the United Nations, who created World Population Day in 27.4 to raise awareness about the problems caused by overpopulation.
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"People are quiet about lives which are being lost as a result of wildlife, we have a serious problem of overpopulation of animals," he said.
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This would involve killing people en masse so as to avoid overpopulation—which he labels as the main cause behind the degradation of the planet.
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While the human rights abuses alone are reason enough to oppose family size limits, the premise that "overpopulation" is a problem at all is incorrect.
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David Poindexter, a Methodist minister who worked with television and radio producers worldwide to inject story lines into their programs about overpopulation, died on Feb.
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And overpopulation can contribute to such social and environmental problems as global warming, resource depletion, pollution, overcrowding, malnutrition, gender inequality and the spread of deadly disease.
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Humanity's drain on natural resources, the threat of climate change, and concerns around overpopulation led the scientist to plead with our Earth-bound species to relocate.
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I'm thinking of people like Andrew Ng, who had that famous quote about how worrying about human-level AI is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars.
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The Cat Welfare Society told Mashable that they handle, on average, 10 to 15 cases each year of people hoarding an overpopulation of cats at home.
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Fears of overpopulation sometimes turn into hostility to immigrants, those who choose to have large families, and countries in an earlier stage of their population transition.
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The museum's enormous rotunda was filled with sculptures built by Chicago-based artist Samantha Rausch, each representing a different global threat: overpopulation, pandemics, income inequality, sexual violence.
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It works like this: Say an overpopulation of stoats, a predatory mammal related to weasels, is driving out endangered birds, as is the case in New Zealand.
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With so many low cost and free services out there – and too many animals being put to death because of overpopulation – I always say adopt, don't shop.
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These areas range from developing community cat programs that humanely address feline overpopulation to offering workplaces that understand and support the benefits of having pets at work.
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At the same time, with the prisons teeming with disease and overpopulation, he couldn't imagine being consigned to a shared cell for the rest of his life.
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They have collaborated before, back when Paul was fashioning a run at the Republican presidential nomination in 2014 and consulted with Harris on the prison overpopulation problem.
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Downsizing, starring Matt Damon and Kristen Wiig, centers on a technology that allows humans to shrink themselves down to mere inches, in an effort to battle overpopulation.
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But he gradually becomes aware that capitalism is more resilient than that, that it could adjust to overproduction and overpopulation and bad harvests and all the rest.
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At dinner, he begins to talk about eliminating either illegal immigration or overpopulation in New Orleans' poor ninth ward, because the country can't afford to support both. Yikes.
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Comic strips in the Sunday funnies of 1959 called these expeditions "Space Mayflowers," as they predicted that overpopulation might force Earthlings to venture out and inhabit other planets.
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Together, they discussed what they would do if they had one day left to live, what cats dream about and how we'll deal with overpopulation in the future.
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On Monday, Born Free said on its website Zambia had failed to provide robust, scientific evidence demonstrating that there is an overpopulation of hippos in the Luangwa river.
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Our other biggest problems—overpopulation, habitat destruction, and so on—present the same challenge: they're inevitable if we keep living the way we do, thinking our same thoughts.
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In Los Angeles, as in many major cities, gentrification and overpopulation have led in recent years to skyrocketing rents and an unprecedented number of the homeless and disenfranchised.
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I Was Misinformed My friend Herb and I were having dinner the other night at our hangout, the Knickerbocker, when we were cruelly reminded of the overpopulation problem.
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They have called the party's representatives out of touch and inaccessible, and they have accused the government of not doing enough to solve issues like overpopulation and pollution.
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In "American Wolf," Blakeslee does a fine job presenting the wolf's basic biological requirements, from abundant prey source (in Yellowstone, the overpopulation of elk) to secure denning sites.
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To combat overpopulation, scientists have created genetically-modified crops to provide more food — but that tinkering has, in turn, caused a drastic increase in the number of multiple births.
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In the 1960s and 1970s, amid decolonization and the Cold War battle for hearts and minds in newly independent countries, world elites became obsessed with a new danger: overpopulation.
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But it's typically those on the techno-utopian left who have advocated for moving to other planets in the face of dire environmental consequences or overpopulation here on Earth.
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Tossing aside the bleak, dusty hellscape of an immediate post-fallout world, the Guerilla team builds a natural landscape that has mostly rebounded from the demands of human overpopulation.
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Aside from the money Zimbabwe receives in the trade, Muchinguri claims the exchange is mutually beneficial because it helps his country deal with its drought and elephant overpopulation problem.
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But the co-living company just launched in San Francisco, a city racked by overpopulation, an ever-growing tech boom, a cavernous wealth divide, and a worsening housing shortage.
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We do agree that roundups are creating a crisis in management, but the claims of overpopulation and horses starving are just not borne out by on-the-ground observations.
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Born Free claims the wildlife ministry has not provided scientific evidence of its claims of an overpopulation of hippos and water levels that are too low to sustain them.
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It is perfectly clear that too many children and overpopulation are what have destroyed the climate, polluted the world, and depleted fresh water and the fish in the ocean.
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The federal Bureau of Land Management — which oversees vast expanses of public land, mostly in the West — says the problem facing wild horses stems from overpopulation aggravated by severe drought.
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The visual is a metaphorical representation of our inextricable connection to the earth, which is often lost between meeting the demands of capitalism, overpopulation and other things of that nature.
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If we do want kids, we are selfish for carelessly contributing to global warming, overpopulation, or just because it's greedy to want to see your smile reflected in someone else's.
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"Ah, the unintended consequences of extending life — overpopulation, increasing stress on an already stressed environment, increasing stress on an already stressed retirement system," wrote Thomas G. Smith, in Cadillac, Mich.
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Going further back, around the turn of the nineteenth century, the English economist Thomas Malthus was warning that the pending overpopulation of the planet would lead to inevitable food shortages.
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The town of Castle Rock features in dozens of King's novels and short stories, apparently serving as a homing point for the state's overpopulation of supernatural infestations and evil entities.
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Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich wrote in his best-selling 1968 book The Population Bomb, "In the 1970's, hundreds of millions of people will starve to death" because of overpopulation.
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Because of the corruption of the Philippine government and the de-facto ban on birth control by the Catholic Church, leading to overpopulation, much of the country lives in poverty.
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It was in the late 90s that I began to think about climate change, and not only that, but massive species extinction, overpopulation, and what we're doing to the earth.
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They trace the hidden hand of "Big Pharma" spreading disease for profit and claim that billionaires like Bill Gates are closeted eugenicists seeking to address overpopulation by promoting poisoned childhood vaccines.
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Such groups have advocated for taxing parents "to the hilt" for having more than two children, calling it "irresponsible breeding," and said abortion is "a highly effective weapon" to combat overpopulation.
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The big-screen Thanos still aspires to kill off half the universe, but this time around, he merely wants to solve an overpopulation crisis instead of using mass murder as foreplay.
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As director of that organization's worldwide field conservation work, Mr. Walston routinely comes face-to-face with the dark forces of human overpopulation, mass extinction of species, climate change and pollution.
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Since 2015, Clear the Shelters has found homes for more than 150,000 pets while also raising awareness about pet overpopulation, shelter overcrowding and the importance of spaying and neutering your animals.
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The current technology behind global agriculture was driven by the fear that overpopulation would lead to mass starvation, culminating in genetically modified foods and an escalating war between pesticides and pests.
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Ms. White, an accomplished scientist who gained prominence for warnings of desert encroachment and overpopulation, soon moved into a nursing home closer to her family but far from her old home.
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No overarching conspiracy comes into sight, though — just a confluence of panic about overpopulation, a gusher of federal funds for population-control studies and age-old prejudices about ethnicity, class and poverty.
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The movie's fictional world has a global law against having more than one child, to stem overpopulation, but the father of Noomi's characters goes against the grain when he has identical septuplets.
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And remnants of that overpopulation still remain: The massive public housing community itself serves about 21,000 people, which, according to the Nation, in 2013 was more than the entire neighborhood of Tribeca.
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Amidst that debate, he offered an argument suggesting that a nightmare overpopulation world might actually be an improvement, so long as the people in it were still better off alive than dead.
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In that sense, they are much like startups, brimming with hope and an optimism, intent on changing the world and solving problems ranging from overpopulation to transportation to air quality and affordability.
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"The displacement of a large number of people led to crowding and overpopulation in the west (of Libya) and to an increase in the burden on the cancer treatment center," Feki said.
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In response to a Vox column of mine suggesting that the United States needed a pro–population growth agenda, many readers from across the political spectrum responded by raising fears about overpopulation.
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Now that overpopulation is a real threat to the limited natural resources of planet Earth, it is good to know that there are many women like me who are childless by choice.
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Technology happens or doesn't happen, whatever the case may be, and maybe the worst-case scenario is that we will end up with a worse overpopulation problem than what we have today.
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"Through my projects on birds, I want to reveal issues [of overpopulation] and simultaneously present a surreal and unusual urban landscape of Tokyo, a city filled with inorganic concrete buildings," he writes.
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So Pincus and Rock looked to Puerto Rico, where concerns about overpopulation fueled in part by the eugenics movement meant there were no birth control restrictions and abortion was legal on the island.
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Thanos, the mad Titan obsessed with overpopulation and its toll on the universe's finite resources, finally assembled the Infinity Gauntlet — and used its power to decimate half of all life in the universe.
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"The narrative about overpopulation — and deforestation is usually not far behind — is what's called a blueprint narrative," said Jade Sasser, a professor of gender and sexuality studies at the University of California, Riverside.
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If a decentralized system was doling out resources equally to a seven-billion-and-growing population of human beings, how long before overpopulation and lack of resources would do us in as a species?
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"Having a baby is an immoral act — overpopulation, climate change, rise of neofascism," Rachel (Kathryn Hahn) laments to her husband, Richard (Paul Giamatti), near the start of Tamara Jenkins' new comedy-drama, Private Life.
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Haiti had hardly any old-growth forests, and the culprit, they believed, was overpopulation: Nearly 230 million Haitians, crammed into a tiny portion of the island, had exceeded the environment's capacity to support them.
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Having experienced the consequences of overpopulation and limited resources, he sees it as an act of mercy: an indiscriminate killing of young and old, rich and poor, decided in a single second by chance.
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Although environmentalists for decades have worried about overpopulation for many good reasons, I suggest the fast-upcoming thresholds in climate change provide uniquely powerful reasons to consider taking real action to slow population growth.
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Brown said framing Dante as prophecy and not as history made the story relevant to a modern audience, drawing threads between overpopulation and real world issues such as immigration or lack of natural resources.
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But critics in other countries would ask why, with all its problems of poverty and overpopulation, of malnutrition and poor health and illiteracy, India should be spending millions of rupees to go into space.
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" Each scenario in Endling addresses a major issue in the modern world, including problems that arise from "intensive livestock, pollution of the seas and rivers, the accumulation of electronic waste, overpopulation, [and] climate change.
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Over 350,000 users were banned by random selection — an attempt to mimic Thanos's "solution" to the overpopulation of the universe whereby, thanks to his capture of the Infinity Gauntlet, half of humanity was instantly erased.
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One memorable flashback shows him talking to her while eating, expectorating bits of sandwich as he expands on his theory that overpopulation is the root of all evil and must be stopped at all costs.
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Click here to view original GIFThe music video for Lorn's song Anvil doubles as a short animation about the future where the year is 2100 and overpopulation is dealt with a mandatory postmortem social network.
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I think we'll all soon be enmeshed in a wild robotic sex swing with odors and tactile sensations and little spanking machines, and then we won't have an overpopulation problem because we'll always be alone.
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"We have an overpopulation problem," state party chairman Eric Bauman said at the convention's Sunday session, telling the crowd of activists to encourage some candidates running in the primaries to run for another office instead.
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" Not all observers are as concerned; Andrew Ng, up until recently Baidu's chief scientist, concludes that "worrying about killer robots is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars—we'll have plenty of time to figure it out.
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But pet overpopulation continues because the number of unwanted pets being born is not controlled by shelters, rescues, their volunteers and donors — but rather by irresponsible pet owners, who allow their pets to breed unwanted litters.
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The characters in Downsizing risk a possibly lethal procedure in order to to afford a five-bedroom house and then pat themselves on the back and say they did it to save the planet from overpopulation.
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The same can't be said for humans, which have to worry about more pressing apocalyptic scenarios like nuclear war, AI armageddon, overpopulation, or cataclysmic climate change, and other species, which mainly have to worry about humans.
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In more recent years, he signed a 2009 declaration by the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, a conservative Christian public policy organization, criticizing "unfounded or undue concerns" about climate change, overpopulation and species loss.
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Some people fear that overpopulation contributes to climate change and much more environmental damage, as well as fearing that it might not be good for a child to be brought into the world at this time.
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Just as Syria's revolution was set off in part by the worst four-year drought in the country's modern history — plus overpopulation, climate stresses and the Internet — the same is true of this African migration wave.
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Since its inception in 1970, Earth Day (April 22) has been a strange mix — a celebration of springtime and the great outdoors, combined with doom-and-gloom prophecies of destruction, centering on overpopulation, pollution and capitalism.
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For his part, Andrew Ng of Baidu says worrying about superintelligent AIs today "is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars when we have not even set foot on the planet yet", a subtle dig at Mr Musk.
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"They need to make an effort to ease the overpopulation of animals," Petrus Riski of the Indonesia Wildlife Communication Forum said at the zoo as keepers carried a crate of fish into a congested pen of pelicans.
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Fleeing devastated agriculture, overpopulation and unemployment, migrants from a dozen countries gather here in caravans every Monday night and make a mad dash through the Sahara to Libya, hoping to eventually hop across the Mediterranean to Europe.
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" It also blamed the overpopulation on the "white middle-class" that "use up more than their share of resources and do more than their share of polluting" and urged them to "voluntarily limit their families to two children.
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"Pet overpopulation is a huge issue around the world, and it's your responsibility — unless you're certain you have a plan for breeding and finding solid homes for all the puppies and kittens — to have them spayed," he says.
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America is recovering from an overpopulation crisis and a nationwide riot, and the government has implemented a draconian new health care program: anyone who visits a hospital must submit to sterilization, since they've proven themselves unfit to reproduce.
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Women were more outwardly focused in their decision-making, referencing how having kids would alter their adult relationships or contribute to overpopulation and other environmental impacts, or that the world as it is isn't hospitable to new children.
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The actress, 44, stars alongside Damon in Downsizing, the new comedy from Election director Alexander Payne that imagines a scenario where the solution to overpopulation and climate change is Norwegian scientists shrinking people down to five inches tall.
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The problem extends well beyond tax dodges highly-paid players in European countries, thanks to the sport's overpopulation of hangers-on and ten-percenters waiting to capitalize on young men who are, for the most part, bureaucratically naive.
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Policymakers are also trying to tackle the problem of overdevelopment and overpopulation in fast-growing Beijing itself, known as "big city syndrome", and the new cross-regional plan will aim to restrict urban development on the capital's borders.
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As a result, we get characters like Vulture from Spider-Man: Homecoming speaking out about class inequality, Black Panther's Killmonger decrying the worldwide oppression of black people, or Infinity War's Thanos being driven by fears of universal overpopulation.
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Mr. Poindexter believed that advancing issues like overpopulation through the media — particularly in soap operas that offered not only entertainment but also clear messages and positive role models — was essential to moving people to use family-planning clinics.
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Not everything worked so well: responding to government concerns about overpopulation, Ford funded research that led indirectly to a forced-sterilization program in the mid-seventies that unintentionally killed close to two thousand people owing to botched surgeries.
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Cody was taken to a kill shelter in Brooklyn and was later moved by animal rescue group St. Hubert's to a welfare center in Madison, New Jersey, where she would be safe from the overpopulation city shelters were experiencing.
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Overpopulation is an incredibly charged topic that has been used to justify inhumane ideologies—in both real life and in fiction—so the team makes it clear that it's suggesting expanding reproductive freedom and education for girls and women.
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It is difficult to make a case for human progress when one looks at certain major man-made incipient catastrophes that are in plain sight: overpopulation, pollution, global warming, the mass extinction of many species, including possibly our own.
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As scientists have come to understand, factors like overpopulation and a lack of alternative forms of nutrition lead to cannibalism among animals, and it is clear that even modern humans have been driven to the behavior on many occasions.
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"Rice feeds the poorest of the poor, and as long as there's overpopulation and poverty, people are going to be eating rice," said Wing, referring to the fact that 60 percent of the world's hungry are in the Asia Pacific.
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The case for this diversity is strong: A 2016 review published in Nature found that acne patients often suffered from a reduction in microbe variations, with "overpopulation" of one or another, and that the diversity increased as the wounds healed.
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The main show greets you with a whirlwind of takes on what architecture is and can be — a mix of intriguing to madcap what-ifs, in addition to realized projects that grapple with overpopulation, climate change, historical preservation, and emerging technologies.
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"I have seen a very gendered response," said Travis Rieder, a research scholar at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and author of Toward a Small Family Ethic: How Overpopulation and Climate Change Are Affecting the Morality of Procreation.
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The Chinese government began coercively limiting family size in response to misguided overpopulation fears that became popular among Chinese officials in the 1970s, when the central arguments behind the Club of Rome's report, "The Limits to Growth," were translated into Chinese.
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China's earliest inhabitants probably lived somewhere between the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers, but thousands of years ago the Han Chinese began setting out in search of new homes, spurred on by the familiar prods of overpopulation, war, famine, and unrest.
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His intention with the LP is to bring attention to the beauty in quiet, in repetition, in a solitary state of being—human concepts we're being deprived of as overpopulation and lackadaisical artificial lighting strip us from true, beautiful darkness.
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Shelters and rescues in the South work hard to promote pet adoption transports (primarily open only for dogs) to states where they have a better handle on the dog overpopulation, and these groups fund an increasing number of low-cost spay/neuter clinics.
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Activists have been challenging the taboo of childfreedom since the early 1970s, when second-wave feminism (which focused on family-centric issues such as reproductive rights, workplace equality, and marital rape) collided with the overpopulation and overconsumption worries of the environmental movement.
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But in the face of a growing world population (now at 7.6 billion, projected by the United Nations to reach 11.2 billion by 2100), climate change and concerns about mass starvation, one should consider decreasing fertility as a natural response to overpopulation.
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"Eco-fascism" is an ideology experiencing a revival among the far-right, which blames the demise of the environment on overpopulation, immigration, and over-industrialization, problems that followers think could be partly remedied through the mass murder of refugees in Western countries.
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The reform of the 1970s was a solid starting point, and we should build on that progress, not revert to a system that leaves unsolved issues of prison overpopulation and one that marginalizes New Yorkers because of their skin color or economic status.
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Dr. Ehrlich, who rose to prominence in the 1960s after he wrote "The Population Bomb," a book that predicted the imminent collapse of humanity because of overpopulation, said he saw a similar phenomenon in the animal world as a result of human activity.
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" Read Our Review No. 503 Ontario Ice Caves, Canada In telling a grim tale of how climate change, overpopulation and invasive species destabilizes a sensitive ecosystem, Egan "nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.
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Other cities in Europe, including Genoa, have also already tried nicarbazin to deal with pigeon overpopulation, and its been done on a neighborhood-level in Los Angeles, but never on a wide scale in a major city, as we'll see in Barcelona.
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In it, a confluence of overpopulation, advanced surveillance, and computerized records has ushered in a totalitarian eugenics experiment: anyone who needs medical treatment must submit to sterilization, since the government has concluded that a sick or injured person is by definition unfit to reproduce.
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But Payne has never made anything quite like Downsizing, which matches his dry satirical style with a highly fanciful sci-fi premise: To combat the ravages of overpopulation, Swedish scientists develop technology that can shrink humans to roughly the size of a coffee mug.
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There are the asteroid strikes of the "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon" films, the robot wars of the "Battlestar Galactica" TV series and "Terminator" film franchise, the medical problems and overpopulation in the "Children of Men" and "Elysium" movies, and many other disasters natural and artificial.
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And for those worried about the possibility of overpopulation in orbit — it's absolutely something to consider, but many of these satellites will be flying at extremely low altitudes; at 550 kilometers up, these tiny satellites will naturally de-orbit in a handful of years.
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In 2017 the actress made a splash with a small part in HBO's Big Little Lies and became a film festival sensation with her breakout role in Downsizing, starring opposite Matt Damon as one of the inhabitants of a miniature world created to combat overpopulation.
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And while human-made islands aren't a new phenomenon—some in East Asia date back to the 1600s—they're now being considered as remedies for overpopulation and climate change across the world, and perhaps that shows how desperate the fate of humanity has truly become.
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"We need large carnivores like cougars, which would curb deer overpopulation and tick-borne diseases that threaten human health, so we hope Eastern and Midwestern states will reintroduce them," Michael Robinson, a conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement.
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Mayor Paoa — who said people would in fact be forced to leave in some situations — justifies the proposals by insisting that if measures are not taken now it will soon be too late to accommodate overpopulation in a way that doesn't involve relocating sacred sites.
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In 1984, when he was writing, fears of overpopulation and of a "population bomb" that led to exponential growth in the human population, with average living standards plummeting until such a point that the whole world is living in a miserable slum together, were very prominent.
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While rates of overpopulation have declined slightly, it is still a problem, especially given the elevated percentage of prisoners in pre-trial detention who may, in fact, be innocent but were nevertheless swept up in anti-crime operations, or may be falsely accused of committing a crime.
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But it never distracted from the hypnotic beat of Matador's rap, which appeals to young Senegalese not to join the migration to Europe — now driven by a toxic brew of government failures, overpopulation and extreme floods and droughts — but to stay home and build their country.
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"In a statement to Insider, PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said: "Sorry, Justin, but you must think more deeply about this issue: When millions of animals are losing their lives every year because not enough people adopt — choosing instead to shop — the animal overpopulation crisis is a 'real problem.
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Most of this year's winning entries are designs for a dystopia, examples of how the next generation of architects might attempt to delay humanity's self-destruction: the designs accommodate for overpopulation, global warming, and some of the 7 million drones estimated to fly in US skies by 2020.
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Here's how to solve power cable overpopulation in a few simple steps: This sounds easier said than done, but here's a good rule of thumb: "If you don't know what it goes to, get rid of it," said Marissa Hagmeyer, an organization consultant and co-owner of Neat Method.
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The Town's Deer and Tick Committee has considered nonlethal measures, such as relocation and birth control, but the only practical way to deal with overpopulation, which threatens the health and safety of humans as well as the health of the herd, has been to encourage more people to hunt.
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As the Avengers (at least some of them) return to deal with the aftermath of genocide-survivor turned super-villain Thanos having wiped out 50 percent of the universe, the message of the blockbuster movie is one for our times: Resource scarcity and overpopulation are not in the distant future.
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I often focus on the example of Bangladesh, where people used to predict mass deaths from starvation due to overpopulation, but it's currently keeping its head above water and even achieving significant growth (from a very low base) thanks to open world markets that let it export lots of clothing.
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A bigger factor was me simply giving up on the possibility of change: I'd spent much of those literally dark months reading books about overpopulation and the negative impacts of the internet on attention spans and memory, and had become convinced that The Masses were too dull and stupefied to change their ways.
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Duterte was not elected for his overt mastery of words, nor his ability as a diplomat, but rather for what he represented to a nation beaten down by typhoons, tidal waves, overpopulation, traffic, and a crippling culture of corruption that bankrupted an already poor country, making many of these problems impossible to remedy.
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"As a child I didn't quite understand what it all meant, but through my child's eyes it represented a planet, the utopia we had been given, the overpopulation, excesses, and the third panel we see a blackened sky that represents so much to me of what's going in in the environment," DiCaprio, 41, explained to the Pope.
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"As a child I didn t quite understand what it all meant, but through my child's eyes it represented a planet, the utopia we had been given, the overpopulation, excesses, and the third panel we see a blackened sky that represents so much to me of what s going in in the environment," DiCaprio explained to the Pope.
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It started with overpopulation, then DDT killing all the birds, then nuclear winter, then mass famine, then toxic air pollution levels that would require humans to wear gas masks, then low sperm counts, then peak oil, then a modern ice age, then earth running out of clean water, then species extinction, then loss of farmland, and on and on.
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John Brunner's Club of Rome Quartet — comprised of the novels Stand on Zanzibar, The Jagged Orbit, The Sheep Look Up, and The Shockwave Rider — was released in the late 1960s and '70s and correctly predicted, respectively, overpopulation, a U.S. mired in weapons proliferation and interracial violence, pollution-related ecological disasters, and the emergence of computer viruses.
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"After Bieber got the cats, PETA said that he "could inspire his fans around the world to save a life by adopting a cat from a local animal shelter — rather than fueling the dangerous demand for hybrid cats, contributing to the animal overpopulation crisis, and proving that when it comes to helping animals, his stance so far is 'I don't care.
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The following responses are organized by these general themes: Digital technologies, automation, and artificial intelligence (19), climate and environmental change (17), abstract "big picture" responses (19603), inequality, extremism, and prejudice (16), science illiteracy and misinformation (14), lack of connection to other people and nature (8), the consequences of short-term thinking (22), overpopulation (2100), and respondents who did not have major worries (2200).
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Like Thanos in Infinity War, do you believe in a coming global overpopulation-based famine that has been predicted ever since English economist Thomas Malthus thought it up in the 1790s — despite there being fewer famine deaths in the last decade than at any time in recorded history, despite scientists telling us the end of famine is in our grasp?
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And people often forget: Overpopulation is not a matter of how many people there are on the planet but rather the difference between the number of people on the planet and the number of people that can be on the planet with an acceptable level of environmental impact, and that second number is of course not a constant; it's something that is determined by other technologies.
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In her "MaddAddam" trilogy, begun in the early two-thousands and set in a near-future world where overpopulation leads society to reduce everything to its base functionality, Atwood takes aim at technocracy and corporate control: people eat "ChickieNobs," the product of genetically engineered chickens that consist of a mouth surrounded by twenty breast-meat tubes; the Crakers, a humanoid race designed for a minimum of trouble and a maximum of efficiency, have giant penises that turn blue when the females of the species are in heat.
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