The world’s human population reached 8 billion people this year. Just 35 years ago, it hit 5 million. The rate of increased population is clearly unsustainable on many fronts. Overpopulation has ...

This is in response to the Aug. 31 letter entitled, "Look at history: Overpopulation not always the problem." In view of the author's attitude toward population control, the title should have had the ...

I always enjoy Thomas Friedman’s columns, however, the ecotourism solution offered in the July 31 column, which was about Madagascar, missed the whole point. The root of the problems of environmental ...

This article is from the archive of our partner . "Many of today's most-respected thinkers, from Stephen Hawking to David Attenborough, argue that our efforts to fight climate change and other ...

The definition of overpopulation is in the name: An area that’s beyond capacity to handle the material needs of the people living in it. Less than 1 billion people walked this planet in the mid-18th ...

Sunday's editorial, "Time's up for climate change deniers," left out something very important: overpopulation. As Walt Kelly's cartoon character Pogo said, "We have met the enemy, and he is us." ...

In a recent op-ed by Michael Geruso and Dean Spears in The New York Times and picked up by The Salt Lake Tribune, “Don’t expect depopulation to solve our problems,” the authors contend that ...