"The Morning Briefing" is SmartPlanet's daily roundup of must-reads from the web. This morning we're reading about global population growth. 1.) About that overpopulation problem. The world's ...

Overpopulation actually is not the cause of the world’s environmental woes. To say so would be to deny the notion that humans can live sustainably. Nevertheless, the idea that the world is ...

Hannelore Vogler states that her letter published Nov. 2, that the world is overpopulated. This is a total fallacy. If you put 4 people in a home situated on a 5,000 square foot lot (typical for any ...

I always enjoy Thomas Friedman’s columns, however, the ecotourism solution offered in the July 31 column, which was about Madagascar, missed the whole point. The root of the problems of environmental ...

This is in response to the Aug. 31 letter entitled, "Look at history: Overpopulation not always the problem." In view of the author's attitude toward population control, the title should have had the ...

Something clicked with the March 2 guest commentary, “Blast the sirens: We have an emergency,” regarding county growth planning for 300,000 additional residents in 20 years. At every level — city, ...