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Bill Ryerson -- Dealing With The Elephant In The Room: Overpopulation

Strategies for dealing with this massive, third-rail issue
by Adam Taggart
Tuesday, May 22, 2018, 3:32 PM

Worldwide, three new humans are born every second. Every day, 225,000 more mouths are added to the global dinner table.

Bill Ryerson, president of the Population Institute, joins us to discuss the work of the Population Media Center in addressing the interconnected issues of the full rights of women and girls, population, and the environment. It's mission is to empower people to live healthier and more prosperous lives and to stabilize global population at a level at which people can live sustainably with the world’s renewable resources. » Read more

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Bill Ryerson: The Challenges Presented by Global Population Growth

And why they're so hard for us to address
by Adam Taggart
Saturday, December 22, 2012, 3:55 PM

At the heart of the resource depletion story that we track here at PeakProsperity.com is the number of people on earth competing for those resources.

The global population is more than 7 billion now and headed to 9 billion by 2050. If world population continues its exponential growth, when we will hit planetary carrying capacity limits with our key resources (or are we already exceeding them?) What are the just, humane, and rights-respecting options that are on the table for balancing the world’s population with the ability of the earth to sustain it?

Population management is an inflammatory issue. It's nearly impossible to discuss without triggering heated emotions, and rare is the leader who's willing to raise it. And by going unaddressed globally, the risk of problems created by overpopluation grow unchecked. War, poverty, starvation, disease, inequality...the list goes on.

Which is why we feel we need to have the courage to address this very important topic directly. And to have an adult-sized conversation about these risks and what can done about them. » Read more