Checking the explosive growth in population is fundamental to returning to a sustainable balance in our ecosystem.

-Africa is adding 100,000 people every three weeks.   There are more people in China now than there were in the entire world in 1825.

-It is predicted that by 2020, India and China will use as much petroleum as the entire earth in 1995. (Atlantic Monthly)

- The highest birth rates are in the developing countries. Most of these people will live in squalid conditions as much of the world does today.

These lists of resource links are a result of a collaboration between Eva Clement, student at the North Carolina School for Science and Math, and members of the North Carolina Sierra Club Medoc Group.
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Last updated: May 12, 2001.