World Population Balance focuses on education of the environmental consequences of United States and world overpopulation, the need to halt exponential population growth, and the need to achieve a stable, sustainable population.

Exciting New Ad Campaign

We are seeking special funds to run ads similar to this one in several Minnesota publications this fall. These full-color ads will add to the attention gained by our messages on public radio.Read more

Malthus Over A 270 Year Perspective

Malthus Over A 270 Year Perspective

by Andrew R. B. Ferguson

In 1798 Thomas Robert Malthus wrote: “population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio, but subsistence increases only in a arithmetical ratio.” He was well aware that Europeans were taking over the lands of Native Americans and thereby introducing more productive agricultural methods.Read more

The Population Bubble

The Population Bubble

by David Bacon

In the Roadrunner and Coyote cartoons there is usually a scene where Coyote, chasing Roadrunner, runs off a cliff. He continues on a horizontal line for a couple of seconds, looking increasingly puzzled and concerned, until he realizes his predicament, tries vainly to reverse course, and falls to the desert below.

This is symbolic of the situation ecologists call “overshoot.” Overshoot is when a species reproduces to a number that its environment can’t sustain.Read more

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