{"id":17416,"date":"2021-12-05T17:26:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T06:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/?p=17416"},"modified":"2021-12-06T07:32:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T20:32:49","slug":"overpopulation-defined-by-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/2021\/12\/overpopulation-defined-by-un\/","title":{"rendered":"OVERPOPULATION DEFINED BY UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went onto the United Nations website itself looking for something about human overpopulation. Guess what I found? It was a definition of the term! This is ridiculous. They aren\u2019t bothering with this topic at all!&#8230;..<em>Stephanie Fox<\/em><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">\n<tbody>\n<tr class=\"alt\">\n<td class=\"content\" align=\"left\" bgcolor=\"#99CCFF\"><b>Term<\/b><\/td>\n<td class=\"content\" align=\"left\">Overpopulation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"\">\n<td class=\"content\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"#99CCFF\"><b>Description<\/b><\/td>\n<td class=\"content\" align=\"left\">exceeding of certain threshold limits of population density when environmental resources fail to meet the requirements of individual organisms regarding shelter, nutrition and so forth. It gives rise to high rates of mortality and morbidity. See also carrying capacity.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unstats.un.org\/UNSD\/environmentgl\/gesform.asp?getitem=853\">http:\/\/unstats.un.org\/UNSD\/environmentgl\/gesform.asp?getitem=853<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12083\" style=\"width: 254px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12083\" class=\" wp-image-12083\" src=\"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Elephant-in-the-Room-300x297.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Elephant-in-the-Room-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Elephant-in-the-Room.jpg 439w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Elephant In The Room<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Looking past the near-term concerns that have plagued population policy at the political level, it is increasingly apparent that the long-term sustainability of civilization will require not just a leveling-off of human numbers as projected over the coming half-century, but a colossal reduction in both population and consumption. Carbon\u00a0 Dioxide emissions are largely the result of human activity. Human consumption is a function of lifestyle and numbers.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17436 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/World-Population-1-300x164.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/World-Population-1-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/World-Population-1-768x420.png 768w, https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/World-Population-1.png 848w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/>Sourced from: <strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em>Internet World Stats<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went onto the United Nations website itself looking for something about human overpopulation. Guess what I found? It was a definition of the term! This is ridiculous. They aren\u2019t bothering with this topic at all!&#8230;..Stephanie Fox Term Overpopulation Description exceeding of certain threshold limits of population density when environmental resources fail to meet the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,128,230,196,240],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carbon-dioxide-emissions","category-climate-change","category-ipcc","category-overpopulation","category-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17416"}],"version-history":[{"count":81,"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17550,"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17416\/revisions\/17550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}