I was taken aback by this seemingly innocent question. For a word that is thrown around like a rag doll, its meaning is eerily ambiguous. As a perspective Environmental Studies major and after taking a college level Environmental Science class in high school, I felt like I should have a brilliant, one-sentence definition that perfectly […]
A Plethora of People: Overpopulation as a Priority Problem
In the past 250 years since the Industrial Revolution, the world population has increased by 6 billion people, with a 400 percent increase in population during the 20th century alone. This population explosion aggravates all the other pressing environmental problems: more people means more waste, energy usage, deforestation, resource wars, habitat fragmentation, and pollution, to name […]