How does overpopulation effect natural habitats? How are human activities are impacting climate globally?
The diversity of life on Earth is essential to the health of our planet and to our wellbeing as human beings. But nature is under pressure as never before. Our needs for food, water and land, and our demands for energy is destroying habitats, polluting our air and water, and driving species of animals and plants to extinction. We are now losing biodiversity up to ten thousand times faster than it was disappearing 100 years ago.
We are in a bottleneck of overpopulation and wasteful consumption that could push half of Earth's species to extinction in this century.
-E.O Wilson
More people need more space. Damaging human activity continues to encroach on natural environments, thereby destroying the habitats of countless species. As our numbers rise, cities, infrastructure, and agricultural land are growing and merging with each other, fragmenting the remaining habitat and leaving isolated "islands" of natural populations of plants and animals which are too small to survive.