The Population Puzzle: - SIUE



Justin Cleveland

The Population Puzzle:

An Interactive Game Raising Awareness of the Increasing Threat of World Population

Population Statistics, Graphics, and Main Sources (Annotated)

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|Description: The web site of an organization dedicated to “networking for a sustainable future”. It contains position papers, monitors important |

|summits on population issues, and serves as a clearinghouse of information. |

|Source used in questions: Environmental Consequences (D10) Ramifications (E10) |

|6 Billion and Beyond |

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|Description: This is the web-site of the PBS documentary on population growth and its consequences. Designed to accompany the program, it offers |

|educational resources and supplements the facts of the video. |

|Source used in questions: Environmental Consequences (E30) |

|6 Billion Human Beings |

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|Description: This is an excellent multi-media site that is incredibly interactive and hands-on, personalizing population data for each visitor. Run by|

|a French organization, it offers a global perspective in a very easy to manipulate format that places statistics within an individual context. |

|Source used in questions: Grab Bag (H20), Potential To Populate (A20, A30), Environmental Consequences (E30) |

|Bitter Harvest: The New Urban Planet |

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|Description: Facts on Urban Sprawl |

|Source used in questions: Ramifications (D20) |

|Child-free |

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|Description: This site is part of the child-free web-ring. It is more personal than academic, but it offers several good resources about childless |

|lifestyles. |

|Source used in questions: Grab Bag (H40) |

|Child-Free Web Resources |

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|Description: An excellent list of links to many different sites that promote the choice of not having children both on a personal and an ecological |

|level. |

|Source used in questions: Goals For Zero Growth (C20) |

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|Day of 6 Billion! World Population (PAI) |

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|Description: This highly interactive site is filled with statistics, facts, maps and graphics and offers many flash-enhanced maps and charts that |

|allow visitors to comprehend facts about overpopulation on multiple levels. It seems to be designed more for young-people but it is a good resource |

|for others as well. |

|Source used in questions: Ramifications (D40), Environmental Consequences (E40, E50) |

|Dismantling the human population |

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|Description: A good source of statistics, it presents the option of halving our population and discusses various ways in which this could become a |

|viable possibility for solving the problems of overpopulation. |

|Source used in questions: Grab Bag (H10) |

|EcoFuture (TM) Population and Sustainability |

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|Description: Quotes, questions, statistics etc. |

|Source used in questions: Links to The Great Challenge website in Tie-Breaker (I50), Maximum Occupancy (B20) |

|Internet Infidels |

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|Description: Darwin Photo, Quotes, other great links! |

|Source used in questions: Maximum Occupancy (B50, B10) Goals for Zero Growth (C50) |

|Malthus, Thomas. "A Summary View of the Principle of Population" (1798). On Population: Three Essays. |

|Description: Malthus’s much quoted essay, a forerunner today’s population researchers, he laid out such concepts as geometric multiplication and |

|hypothesized that controlling the food source was key to controlling population growth. |

|Source used in questions: Population Scholars (G10) |

|Mitchell, Jennifer. “Before The Next Doubling” World Watch. Jan/Feb 1998 pp. 20-27. |

|Description: Quotes the Population Council on three basic factors in achieving population control. |

|Source used in questions: Facts & Figures (F50) (Graph and quotes) |

|NPG - Welcome to the Negative Population Growth Homepage - NPG |

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|Description: Graphs, figures, statistics, Poll results and quotes |

|Source used in questions: Links to website and graphics in Maximum Occupancy (B30, B40, B50) Environmental Consequences (E20) |

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|Overpopulation - Information and resources on the overpopulation debate |

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|Description: Another site masquerading as a true resource on overpopulation. This is desgined to combat the views of those like Paul Ehrlich, Ralph |

|Nader, and Daniel Quinn. It is important to know what those who attack the research of these scholars think and the methods by which they wish to |

|distribute false information. It’s “rational” approach to disputing facts about environmental and ecological castrophes illustrate the danger |

|Population Research Institute |

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|Description: This is NOT a site that supports scholarly research on overpopulation issues. However, it is important to see what those who do not |

|support global family planning and who deny that overpopulation is a problem think and to see what measures they are attempting to prevent. There is a|

|fairly large, conservative sector of people who share these views and several other sites like this one pop up during searches for overpopulation |

|information. |

|Quinn, Daniel. Ishmael.5th edition. New York: Bantam/Turner, 1992. |

|Description: Fictional novel about a talking gorilla that wants to change the world. Urges society to adopt profound new attitudes towards the planet |

|and its other inhabitants to prevent the downfall of our civilization. Discusses problems of overpopulation/over consumption, promotes living |

|sustainably according to a natural law. |

|Source used in questions: Population Scholars (G50) |

|Seitz, John L. Global Issues: An Introduction. Blackwell Publishers, Massachusetts 1998. pp 41 & 52. |

|Description: Graphical concepts of relationships between population and carrying capacity, Birth and Death rate graphics. |

|Source used in questions: Facts & Figures (F10) |

|The German Remote Sensing Data Center |

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|Description: Spinning globe graphics, Graphical data analysis of atmospheric and environmental conditions |

|The International Society of Malthus Home Page |

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|Description: Short bio of Malthus, a picture, his thoughts, and more links |

|Source used in questions: Links to website in Population Scholars (G10) |

|The Ishmael Community & Ishmael-Resources for Further Study |

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|Description: Websites devoted to the novel Ishmael (see above reference to book) |

|Source used in questions: Links to website in Population Scholars (G50) |

|The Population Explosion Paul Ehrlich & Anne Ehrlich |

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|Description: Quotes, statistics, facts, and projected population graphs |

|Source used in questions: Population Scholars (G30), Facts & Figures (F20) |

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|The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement |

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|Description: Figures & statistics on the voluntary human extinction, this page is designed to promote childless living and provides a wide variety of |

|commentary on why gradually phasing out our species would be a good thing. |

|Source used in questions: Maximum Occupancy (B50, B40, B10) Goals for Zero Growth (C50) |

|To Breed Or Not To Breed |

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|Description: A text-based site, but very dense in content. This site offers many different perspectives on “breeding” and choosing responsible, |

|child-free lifestyles. |

|Source used in questions: Maximum Occupancy (B40) |

|Why Population Matters |

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|Description: Lots of statistics, quotes, links, and population trivia, this page is part of a larger site offering a wide variety of resources. |

|Source used in questions: Potential To Populate (A10, A40, A50) Goals for Zero Growth (C50) Facts & Figures (F20, F30) Grab Bag (H20, H30, H50) Tie |

|Breaker (I30) |

|World POPClock Projection |

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|Description: Statistical and graphical data, figures, and maps, etc |

|Source used in questions: Population Counter data |

|Year Six Billion |

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|Description: Run by planned parenthood, this focuses in on global family planning measures and monitors those who would limit their efforts. A good |

|clearinghouse of contraceptive related population statistics. |

|Source used in questions: Tie Breaker (I40, I10) |

|Zero Population Growth |

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|The “CNN” of overpopulation websites, this site tries to provide a widerange of breaking news stories important to the issue of overpopulation. It |

|focuses more on contraception and adequate family plans as solutions to overpopulation and serves as a watchdog against those seeking to limit access |

|to family planning. |

|Source used in questions: Goals For Zero Growth (C10) |

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