population

Readers are introduced to Li, who describes China's people, festivals, landscape, and food. Includes a fact page on China's population, geography, and culture.

Describes Brazil's landscape, weather, and things to see in Brazil. Readers meet Natalia, who tells about Brazil's school, food, and family. Includes a fact page with information on the geography of Brazil, as well as it's population and religion.

Presents and illustrates a way to scale down concepts, including space, time, inventions, resources, humanity, and more.

An overview of world population that describes its various aspects, such as fertility, migration, and global policy, and presents a chronology, biographical sketches of individuals involved in the issue, statistics and graphs, documents, a directory of organizations, and annotated lists of print and non-print resources.

Presents T.R. Malthus's 1798 essay in which he examines the tendency of human populations to exceed their available resources.

Discusses how many people the earth can support in terms of economic, physical, and environmental aspects.

Examines the issues facing the world in regards to overpopulation, discussing how by 2015 there could be ten billion humans on the planet and how we might take steps now to ensure everyone can be fed, clothed, and sheltered adequately at that time.

Presents opposing viewpoints on overpopulation, its causes, its possible effect on the earth, and whether it should be controlled.