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The silent crisis: overview.

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The great majority of people around the world never ask," Is the world overpopulated?" They don't know what it might mean to them, any more than members of an endangered species rapidly losing habitat to human encroachment can comprehend the cause of their predicament.

That the human population of the world is over six billion, that it might double in this century, means little to most Americans. Few know the population of the world, of their nation, or of the state where they reside. They don't know why they should. No authority has ever told them it was important to know those numbers, except to say that, in general, the more people the better. No one has ever told them that, unless people only replace themselves, unless couples on average have no more than two children, population will grow ever faster, compounding like money in the bank to unimaginably large numbers. If the U.S. population grows due to immigration, however rapidly" that has--until very recently--been regarded as beneficial as well.

Most Americans don't know that today's human numbers are a very recent phenomenon--that as recently as 1930, in their grandparents' youth, world population was barely two billion, and U.S. population was less than...

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