Human Carrying Capacity and Human Health

摘要: The issue of human overpopulation has fallen out favor among most contemporary demographers, economists, and epidemiologists. Discussing population control become a taboo topic. Yet, this major implications for public health. silence around prevents the global health community from making necessary link between planet's limited ability to support its people (its carrying capacity—see sidebar on following page) development crises. In article, I describe how popular thinking been shaped over last 200 years, our failure address explosion may be one cause recent epidemics social unrest.