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Kathleen C. Brady
Weber
UWRT 1102
10 March 2017
Annotated Bibliography
Bashford, Alison. Global population: history, geopolitics, and life on earth. New York: Columbia
U press, 2014. De Gruyter . Web. 6 Mar. 2017. <https://www-degruyter-
com.librarylink.uncc.edu/viewbooktoc/product/464107>.
This article that Basford describes the idea of Principles of Population. She takes John

Maynards words from a dinner event and compares them to her own notes. The first World

Population Conference was in 1927, from an estimated 1 to 2 billion people. This would double

again, faster than most in Geneva predicted, to about 4 billion by 1974, the united nations World

Population year. Geneva, knew about the phenomenal acceleration of the worlds population

growth across the nineteenth century. Bashford states that, Population is often taken to

be a sexual and reproductive issue in the first instance (Bashford 3). She first understands that

sexual reproduction is the first main issue in overpopulation. That more people are even parents,

must become aware of the effects of overpopulation.

This argument is exactly what my topic proposal was about, what issues are causing

overpopulation and what effects is it causing. Couples are not aware of the situation and how dire

it is. Sexual reproduction, one of the biggest things since the Baby Boom when all the soldiers

came come from war, of course they didnt know what it would cause, they just love their

husbands. I wonder, what wouldve happened if they were aware of what would happen if they

did reproduce at an unprecedented rate?

Goldin, Ian. Is the planet full? Oxford: Oxford U Press, 2016. Oxford Scholarship Online. Web.
6 Mar. 2017.
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<http://www.oxfordscholarship.com.librarylink.uncc.edu/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/97801
99677771.001.0001/acprof-9780199677771-chapter-1>.
What Goldin means, Is the planet Full, is exactly what it states, can the earth handle more

people? Goldin states, The number of people and where they live is changing rapidly. The

worlds population has doubled over the past forty years, but the pace of growth is slowing, with

the latest estimates suggesting that the population will increase by as many as 3 billion people to

peak at between 9 and 10 billion people by 2050. (Goldin; How Full) Goldin gives hard

evidence of the human growth rate per year by providing facts or graphs in his article. In one of

Goldins graphs it conveys how the greater population is, is how greater carbon emissions

become.

This article has incredible relevance to my papers arguments, not about the causes but the

effects, of what is going to happen if the Earth continues to grow at the rate that it is now. I

described that each human cause carbon emissions, rather through transportation or increased

home usage, it all takes a toll on the Earth.

Maclntrye, Ferren, Ph.D. "Shibboleth."N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Mar. 2017.

<http://muse.jhu.edu.librarylink.uncc.edu/article/193217>.
Maclntrye tests The Maltho-Marxian Hypothesis 'Economics Controls Population, to the

ethical issue of overpopulation. Malthus and Marx held that economics controlled population.

Malthus believed there were environmental constraints on the supportable population; Marx felt

that human ingenuity would overcome all limits to growth. Their hypothesis stated, Populations

are controlled by a logistic with an exponential limit which represents the 'maximum population

supportable at the socially desired mean standard of living'. This is neither strict Malthusianism

nor strict Marxism, but a hybrid of the type first formulated by W. E. Howland at Purdue.

(Maclntrye; The Maltho-Marxian Hypothesis)

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I personally never thought of overpopulation controlled by economics so thus article is

contradicting my paper. Even if they have the same ideas but different causes, but Ferren makes

good points based on the information from Malthus and Marx. If the world's dominant nation

shows economic control of population, what of the world? Malthusian misery has been a major

world control. Warfare, democide, plague, famine, malnutrition, poverty, and ignorance are

painful ways to adjust the population, but they keep the growth rate well below the biological

potential. (Maclntrye Introduction) Even that we had different ideas, they both came out with

the same effect that overpopulation causes.

Rinkesh. "Overpopulation: Causes, Effects and Solutions." Conserve Energy Future. N.p., 23
Jan. 2017. Web. 06 Mar. 2017. <http://www.conserve-energy-future.com/causes-effects-
solutions-of-overpopulation.php>.
Rinkesh begins his article with the definition of overpopulation, Overpopulation is an

undesirable condition where the number of existing human population exceeds the carrying

capacity of Earth. (Rinkesh Overpopulation) Number of factors causes overpopulation rather if

its, reduced mortality rate, better medical facilities, depletion of precious resources are few of

the causes which results in overpopulation.

Technology is only going to grow and that thats a plus for hospitals, since their

technology is what keeps people alive. Now Im not saying that we should kill every person that

comes into the hospital but those who have little to no life left. Looking at another point of view,

people dont want to lose their loved ones, its very hard to figured out such a situation where left

is so important. There just must be some way to reduce overpopulation, the right way.

Now some days you see doctors coming up with ways to keep the heart beating forever,

or soon in the future medicine that can cure any injury and the medical equipment that saves

peoples lives. Which is amazing that it can become that, but what about the effects. That where
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Rinkesh and I agree, that overpopulation must be prevented to protect the Earth, from the Earth

dying. No medical equipment could save the Earth from impending doom. He states, In the past

fifty or so years, the growth of population has boomed and has turned into overpopulation. In the

history of our species, the birth and death rate have always been able to balance each and

maintain a population growth rate that is sustainable. (Rinkesh Paragraph 2) Everything must

have an equal balance, but what will happen once there is no balance and the Earth cannot hold

any more people.

Staff, National Research Council. Our Common Journey: A Transition Toward Sustainability.
N.p.: n.p., 1999. The National Academies Press. Web. 6 Mar. 2017.
<https://www.nap.edu/catalog/9690/our-common-journey-a-transition-toward-
sustainability>.
Immediately in the introduction the National Research Council talks about the future

generation and how they will be coming into a world that is more crowded than ever before and

how that it makes it that much harder to make a life for themselves. In the article it summarizes

that people are during a transition to a world in which human populations are more crowded,

more consuming, more connected, and in many parts of the world, more diverse, than at any time

in history. Even so, they did state that the world would be more connected. My question is how?

At the end of page 16, they describe what this report is for, This report and the processes

involved in its preparation and dissemination seek to help reengage the science and technology

community as a committed partner in the ongoing global effort to achieve sustainable

development. This report is the result of a nearly four-year study of the National Research

Council's Board on Sustainable Development. (National Research Council; Staff Pg. 16-17)

With a growing population communication would be more difficult to create with a larger

population, there are just so few people to connect to if you needed their specialty but if there
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were thousands of calls coming in how would those few people be able to control it? These

challenges will be compounded to the extent that the resource-intensive, consumptive lifestyles

currently enjoyed by many in the industrialized nations are retained by them and attained by the

rest of humanity. This report seems very contradicting to my own paper, since this report brings

out both sides of the situation of the positives and negatives, while my paper only focuses on the

negatives of overpopulation. Its very difficult to think on the positives of overpopulation, since

there are so few, but growing diversity is a plus, more culture is more influence anywhere and

helps development.

Tsiattalos, George. "Overpopulation Effects." Everythingconnects.org. N.p., 2014. Web. 06 Mar.

2017. <http://www.everythingconnects.org/overpopulation-effects.html>.
Tsiattalos website focuses on the effects of overpopulation and like other articles or

reports it open up with the causes and effects of overpopulation, Human overpopulation is

among the most pressing environmental issues, silently aggravating the forces behind global

warming, environmental pollution, habitat loss, the sixth mass extinction, intensive farming

practices and the consumption of finite natural resources, such as fresh water, arable land and

fossil fuels, at speeds faster than their rate of regeneration.(Tsiattalos Effects)

This is one of the biggest points that need to get across to people, that this is a pressing

issue and more people need to do more research so they can understand the effects that are

happening, even if they cant see what is happening to the Earth, behind the curtain, meaning all

the invisible effects. One example that Tsiattalos uses is a graph of water usage from 1995 to the

prediction to 2025, showing that in 1995 less than 1 billion of people are effected by water

shortage, but in the prediction in 2025 over 7 billion people are affected of water shortage. How

will people survive, if scholars are correct and if were 9 billion people y 2030, that mean only 2
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billion people wont be affected, thats little to nothing. The world will dry up and there will be

nothing left.

This is the thing about overpopulation, you can connect it to pretty much everything, that

is what my paper is trying to get across. That overpopulation will not only affect a certain area

but the entire world and if something isnt going to be done about it, unfortunately a lot of people

in developing countries are going to die since they dont have the resources as developed

countries,