population goals

Every country should set national population goals, to bring its population down to a sustainable level in terms of economic development, standard of living, and environmental sustainability. In fact, even provinces and municipalities should set their own population goals. These goals would be analogous to the goals countries have set themselves for reducing carbon emissions in line with the Paris Climate Accord.

a rather obvious connection

The Climate-Change Solution No One Will Talk About

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/11/the-climate-change-solution-no-one-will-talk-about/382197/?utm_source=atlfb

planetary ICU

A planet with 10 billion human beings on it? A planet on life support, in the Solar System's ICU.

http://below2c.org/2017/07/world-ten-billion-people-not-turn-well/

land degradation

'Pressures on global land resources are now greater than ever, as a rapidly increasing population coupled with rising levels of consumption is placing ever-larger demands on the world’s land-based natural capital, warns a new United Nations report. Consumption of the earth’s natural reserves has doubled in the last 30 years, with a third of the planet’s land now severely degraded.'

http://www.ipsnews.net/2017/09/alert-nature-verge-bankruptcy/

jakarta

Jakarta, Indonesia, population 31.7 million as of 2015. Who knew?

lagos

Lagos, Nigeria, population 21 million as of 2014 (Wiki 'List').

karachi

Karachi, Pakistan, pop. 25.1 million as of 2016 (Wiki, 'List of Metropolitan Areas by Population)

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