Abstract
Mora, C. 2014. Revisiting the environmental and socioeconomic effects of population growth: a fundamental but fading issue in modern scientific, public, and political circles. Ecology and Society 19(1): 38. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06320-190138
Highlights
Two of the greatest concerns of our generation are to improve human welfare (Kollodge 2011) and to prevent the ongoing loss of biodiversity (Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity 2006, Hails 2008)
Tackling the issue of overpopulation will suffer from major impediments including scientific motivation, public scientific illiteracy, religion, and media attention, ongoing neglect of this issue will increase the extent of anthropogenic stressors and the struggle associated with strategies to reverse biodiversity loss and improve human welfare
A reviewer of this paper suggested that other sentiments about reducing population growth that contribute to the resistance of nations to adoption of policies that deal with population may include fears over the shrinkage of a nation’s military or industrial capacity, a misguided concern over social welfare costs, or just a sense that diminishment in numbers means failure
Summary
Two of the greatest concerns of our generation are to improve human welfare (Kollodge 2011) and to prevent the ongoing loss of biodiversity (Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity 2006, Hails 2008). The topics of overpopulation and family planning are rarely considered by leaders in different endeavors as mitigation solutions to improve the health of impoverished people (Poma et al 2007), and population growth is “marginalized” in key recent reports about improving human welfare (Cleland et al 2006).
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