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overpopulation

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A situation which occurs when the number of occupants of an area exceeds the ability of that area to provide for those occupants.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. too much population [syn: overspill ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And what had caused the overpopulation ? ▪ At the same time overpopulation kept agricultural wages at pitiful rates. ▪ Below we challenge some of the major misconceptions arising from the overpopulation mentality. ▪ From an ecological ...

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Overpopulation occurs when a population of a species exceeds the carrying capacity of its ecological niche . Overpopulation is a function of the number of individuals compared to the relevant resources, such as the water and essential nutrients they need ...

Usage examples of overpopulation.

Gold, who suggested the incorporation of a robot detective and the Malthusian outlook on overpopulation.

Overpopulation, over- development, nuclear terrorism, environmental warfare tactics, radiation leakage from power plants and waste dumps, toxic waste, air pollution, deforestation, pollution and overfishing of the oceans, global warming, ozone depletion, loss of biodiversity through extinction.

An even more striking experiment was performed accidentally by Japanese primatologists attempting to relieve an overpopulation and hunger problem in a community of macaques on an island in south Japan.

Item: The insectoid population of Procyon II, suffering from the pangs of overpopulation, had found some pretext to go to war with the humanoids of Procyon III.

As for overpopulation, biodegradable condom companies need tax incentives to increase production.

He had decidedhalf a century in advancethat a combination of information overload, overpopulation and Millennial Madness was going to drive our whole culture slug-nutty by the Eighties.

In that case, if the 95 percent who are fools breed like rabbits, they will destroy civilization in a generation or so, not so much because they are fools but tbrough~all the ills that will beset us through an impossible overpopulation, regardless of the IQ of those making up the crowds.

They had seen their share of fish kills before, but these were generally monospecific events triggered by a local resource depletion, and so were ultimately a sign of overpopulation.

Like communalism and animism, non-nuclear family structures provide a poor defense against the corrosive effects of cities, where African culture is being redefined as deforestation tied to overpopulation drives peasants out of the countryside.

Critics have seen the ruling as part of a deliberate policy of population control, in a period when global overpopulation has been widely promoted as one of the greatest problems that the world faces.

Although right now we don't worry enough about incoming disaster from Up There, we do worry a lot about home-grown disaster Down Here: nuclear warfare, biological warfare, global warming, pollution, overpopulation, destruction of habitat, burning of the rainforests, and so on.

An urbanized peasantry that has crowded into Egyptian cities has withdrawn into religion, unable to fathom the issues of overpopulation and resource scarcity confronted in the 1970s by the Western rationalist John Waterbury.

The Overpopulation laws on Earth mean that some women have been on waiting lists for twelve years to have a second child.

The winnowing out will be done precisely where overpopulation and hopelessness are worst and enough will be left to preserve each nation, each ethnic group, each culture.