Population Growth and Ecological Footprint – It’s About Equity, Environment & Preventing Collapse

photo: Franz Drewniak / Creative Commons Sometime later this year the human population will pass the 7 billion mark. As I write this we’re at 6.9 billion and ticking upwards by about one person a second, or so the population clock at Global Population Speak Out tells me. Even with the widely (widely) disparate levels of natural resource consumption across nations by the end of August each year our collective e… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Population Growth and Ecological Footprint – It’s About Equity, Environment & Preventing Collapse

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