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  2. Human population planning - Wikipedia

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    Tertullian, an early Christian author (ca. AD 160-220), was one of the first to describe famine and war as factors that can prevent overpopulation. [9] He wrote: "The strongest witness is the vast population of the earth to which we are a burden and she scarcely can provide for our needs; as our demands grow greater, our complaints against ...

  3. Demographics of India - Wikipedia

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    Map showing the population density in India, per 2011 Census. [99] India occupies 2.41% of the world's land area but supports over 18% of the world's population. At the 2001 census 72.2% of the population [100] lived in about 638,000 villages [101] and the remaining 27.8% [100] lived in more than 5,100 towns and over 380 urban agglomerations. [102]

  4. Population transfer - Wikipedia

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    Population exchange is the transfer of two populations in opposite directions at about the same time. In theory at least, the exchange is non-forcible, but the reality of the effects of these exchanges has always been unequal, and at least one half of the so-called "exchange" has usually been forced by the stronger or richer participant.

  5. The Cost of Overpopulation Around the World - AOL

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    Living costs are a big overpopulation problem.

  6. Human overpopulation - Wikipedia

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    [140] [182] Daron Acemoglu and others suggested in a 2017 paper that since the Second World War, countries with higher population growth rates experienced the most social conflict. [140] [183] Some advocates [who?] have suggested societal problems such as hunger and mass unemployment are linked to overpopulation. [118] [34] [140] [verification ...

  7. Don't Panic — The Truth about Population - Wikipedia

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    Rosling states that this number is representative worldwide, the reason why the total number of children globally is now at a stable level of 2 billions. According to him, the so-called population explosion has already been overcome. The human population will peak at eleven billions, and stabilize at this level by the end of the century. [1] [2]

  8. Indian diaspora - Wikipedia

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    Bhagat Singh Thind was a Sikh from India who settled in Oregon; he had applied earlier for citizenship and was rejected there. [208] Thind became a citizen a few years later in New York. After World War II, US immigration policy changed, after almost a half century, to allow family re-unification for people of non-white origin.

  9. The World Bank Group's Uncounted - The Huffington Post

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    For the World Bank Group, the project came with public relations risks. It was under pressure to stop financing carbon-spewing coal plants. And it had been burned before in India by Narmada and by other big projects that spawned evictions and protests. Tata and the Indian government promised that the new coal plant would be different.