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Demography of the Philippines records the human population, including its population density, ethnicity, education level, health, economic status, religious affiliations, and other aspects. The Philippines annualized population growth rate between the years 2015–2020 was 1.53%. [ 6 ]
However, neglecting to have a coherent environmental policy has led to the contamination of 58% of the groundwater in the Philippines. [32] The main source of pollution is untreated domestic and industrial wastewater. [31] Only one third of Philippine river systems are considered suitable for public water supply. [32]
Overpopulation or overabundance is a state in which the population of a species is larger than the carrying capacity of its environment.This may be caused by increased birth rates, lowered mortality rates, reduced predation or large scale migration, leading to an overabundant species and other animals in the ecosystem competing for food, space, and resources.
Living costs are a big overpopulation problem.
Physics professor Albert Allen Bartlett at the University of Colorado Boulder warned in 2000 that overpopulation and the development of technology are the two major causes of the diminution of democracy. [181] However, over the last 200 years of population growth, the actual level of personal freedom has increased rather than declined. [136]
Jane Goodall's comments at Davos may seem harmless, but they reflect a dangerous misreading of the climate crisis that needs to be challenged.
Other causes for opposition emerge from the feasibility of substantially impacting human population. According to some researchers, even rapid global adoption of a one-child policy would result in a world population exceeding 8 billion in 2050, and in a scenario involving catastrophic mass death of 2 billion people, world population would ...
The majority of world population growth today is occurring in less developed countries. According to United Nations population statistics, the world population grew by 30%, or 1.6 billion humans, between 1990 and 2010. [39] In number of people the increase was highest in India (350 million) and China (196 million).