Encyclopedia,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
5(2), P. 45 - 45
Published: April 1, 2025
Overpopulation’s
central
role
in
environmental
degradation
is
intermittently
challenged.
This
article
assesses
the
impact
of
mounting
demographic
pressures
on
six
critical
global
sustainability
challenges:
deforestation,
climate
change,
biodiversity
loss,
fishery
depletion,
water
scarcity,
and
soil
degradation.
By
synthesizing
findings
from
hundreds
peer-reviewed
studies,
offers
a
comprehensive
review
effects
expanding
human
populations
most
pressing
current
problems.
Although
rate
population
growth
worldwide
slowing,
numbers
are
expected
to
continue
increasing
Earth
until
end
century.
Current
research
confirms
that
overpopulation
causes
substantial
potentially
irreversible
impacts
cannot
be
ignored
if
international
policy
effective.
