Talk:Population issues/@comment-5558012-20150226165540

Nearly any environmental issue you look at can be attributed to population growth (or the very large number of humans in general). I wrote a paper a few years ago about the footprint of immigration and how cultures (consumption and birth rates) can help to promote a destructive positive feedback loop. In the long term (after 50 years) population (thus resource footprint) can be stable at a 2.1 individual replacement level, but this requires population growth to stop in China and India (plus other growing nations) and resource use in the US, for example, to decrease becoming more equalized with the rest of the world. The article above just barely scratches the surface on population issues. It's difficult to write about environmental issues given that they are so intertwining with other issues, but the root of the problems falls on population (culture would likely be a second).