Op-Ed: The complex link between population decline and a warming planet
It’s time to stop blaming overpopulation for our environmental woes and start looking at the factors that really matter — resource consumption and toxic exposure...
An unexpected side effect of climate change? More stillbirths
Update: This story has been updated to include responses from the research team behind the paper. Climate change is perhaps the greatest existential threat that humanity...
It’s wrong to blame ‘overpopulation’ for climate change
When the Census Bureau released data recently showing that the United States population is growing at its slowest rate in almost a century, an old...
Should We Worry About Population Decline?
Which are you more worried about, population growth or population decline? Or do you prefer to freak out about both at the same time? The...
Long Slide Looms for World Population, With Sweeping Ramifications
All over the world, countries are confronting population stagnation and a fertility bust, a dizzying reversal unmatched in recorded history that will make first-birthday parties...
Shrinking Population in China Brightens the Climate Outlook
The world has yet to apprehend the tectonic shift that will occur as China’s population starts to decline. That long-anticipated event did not occur in 2020, according...
Are there too many people? All bets are off
In 2011, when the global population hit 7 billion, economist David Lam and demographer Stan Becker made a bet. Lam predicted food would get cheaper...
Socially just population policies can mitigate climate change and advance global equity
Socially just policies aimed at limiting the Earth's human population hold tremendous potential for advancing equity while simultaneously helping to mitigate the effects of climate...