That's my answer to the overpopulation question.

For one, overpopulation is one of the persistent causes of poverty.

Garrett Hardin used it to talk about overpopulation in the late 1960s.

20. Overpopulation, which should be emphasized here, is a fact beyond question.

This overpopulation gives rise to frequent disputes over land and its use.

Laptop use to solve overpopulation. And if everything failed, there are some secondary uses.

Poverty, lack of education and overpopulation, all obvious root causes, need to be addressed for a realistic approach to disaster reduction.

(e) A project to address the issue of the correctional system and human rights the challenge of prison overpopulation in central America

As they grew more acute, many of the region's long standing problems of poverty, overpopulation and economic deprivation were threatening the stability of the region.

Listen closely Marvin Minsky's arch, eclectic, charmingly offhand talk on health, overpopulation and the human mind is packed with subtlety wit, wisdom and just an ounce of wily, is he joking? advice.

People worry about overpopulation they say, Well, if we fix aging, no one's going to die to speak of, or at least the death toll is going to be much lower, only from crossing St. Giles carelessly.

43. In most of the prisons, hygienic and sanitation conditions are disastrous, and when combined with overpopulation, they provoke a high level of mortality among detainees, especially in the prisons of Bujumbura, Gitega, Muramvya, Ngozi and Rutana.

31. According to a United Nations Children s Fund (UNICEF) study, the situation of street children is a direct result of the increasing poverty of rural dwellers, the exodus from rural areas and the resulting overpopulation of urban centres.

Factors explaining such a high number of escapes are the decayed state of the buildings and the absence of adequate security measures, overpopulation, insufficient numbers of police guards and their low salaries which make them vulnerable to corruption.

Considering that the challenge and magnitude of modern crime, including organized crime, combined with the insufficient resources of the criminal justice system, for example the overpopulation of prisons and overburdened criminal justice systems, reinforce the need for non repressive crime prevention,

Measures were currently being studied to diminish overpopulation, such as releasing more detainees on probation, by simplifying the procedure involved (a programme which was beginning to be applied), in view of the fact that under the current system the police and the judges tended to act according to excessively repressive criteria and were too prone to order detention.

With regard to the case of Mr. Del Cid, the State party states that it accepts the legal consequences of having ratified the Covenant and the Optional Protocol thereto, but recalls that the criminal justice system suffers from financial pressures caused by the State s foreign debt, which hinders the establishment of more tribunals, whereas the increase of criminality leads to overpopulation of prisons.

Overpopulation, abject poverty, crime, drugs and the consequences they bring may soon threaten the foundations of social cohesion. To a great extent, these forces are transnational, extending beyond the capacity and control of individual States. They are global in nature and pose serious challenges to society and its leadership. We must act collectively in marshalling the resources necessary to mitigate the harmful effects of modernization and globalization.