Malthus was an early practitioner of existential dread. He wrote in 1797 that the increase in population was going to overwhelm the food supply. This became the basis of a lot of political ...

We start 2023 sharing the planet with 8 billion other people. Meanwhile, manufacturing of screens and the transition to renewable energy sources is limited by processes in minerals mining, the grid is ...

To the editor: Thank you for the critically important compilation of articles on our planet’s climate emergency. However, there was one conspicuous omission: None of the articles dared broach the ...

Real skeptics study the evidence and ask questions, rather than taking political dogma on faith. Experiencing disasters can ...

“The richest 1% were responsible for more carbon emissions than 66% of humanity.” One little sentence from Oxfam’s 2023 report suffices to turn the overpopulation myth on its head. For decades, ...

The rate of ice loss in two of Greenland's largest glaciers has increased so much in the last 10 years that the amount of melted water would be enough to completely fill Lake Erie, one of the five ...

With growing concerns over climate change and overpopulation, we urgently need to boost agricultural productivity. With the ...

There is a high risk of increased metal emissions from coastal areas in the future. In a new model, researchers from the University of Gothenburg show that climate change and overpopulation can flush ...

Re “Missing in the Climate Change Discussion” (Feb 28) : World population curve has already begun to level out and it will soon rapidly decline. Over one billion people have lifted themselves out of ...