Course: Overpopulation: Resource Depletion and Human Innovation

Due to the fear of overpopulation, governments have historically implemented radical, drastic, and extreme solutions to stop population growth. This has included forced sterilisations, and even forced abortions in developing …

Many of the grave predictions of overpopulation alarmists have simply not borne fruit in the 21st century, which has actually seen a greater abundance of resources and progress on numerous …

Significantly, child mortality has fallen dramatically. This means that parents will engage in less ‘child replacement’ (Parents who experience the death of a child might deliberately pursue an additional birth …

Statistics show a more optimistic picture than what overpopulation alarmists have presented. Fertility rates have been and are declining around the world, and as education and prosperity increase, families engage …

The fear of overpopulation is at the heart of many other fears about humanity’s environmental future. It is widely believed that at the current rate of population growth, the earth …

Julian Simon was an American economist, born in 1932 and who died in 1998. Simon was born on February 12, 1932. He earned a BA in experimental psychology at Harvard …

Julian Simon was an environmental optimist who believed that “more people are blessings, not curses.” In this video, Dr. Gale Pooley explains how the Malthusian perspective was challenged by the …

Thomas Malthus, an eighteenth-century English demographer, argued that population growth will eventually outstrip food supply.  In this video, Dr. Gale Pooley explains the catastrophe known as the Malthusian Trap. According …