How do population affects the environment
How do population affects the environment he graveyard of progressive fads is a vast one - if you can remember the "Free Tibet" or "Kony 2012" movements, you know what I mean. While today's conservative and liberal critics are apparently perplexed by the far-left's newfound deference toward Corporate America or their replacement of 'class-' with 'race-struggle', for many seasoned environmentalists, it's a painful trend that goes back decades. Younger green-activists may be surprised to learn that a core, perhaps the core, issue at the start of the environmental movement in the 1970s was overpopulation. Human beings, of course, are agents of pollution, and many concerned Americans at the time drew reasonable parallels between events like the Cuyahoga River fire, LA's smog crisis, and our then-as-now galloping growth in population. In the same year President Nixon signed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) int