Paul Gerbrands in the April 2008 issue of the Dutch magazine Civis Mundi   History The Industrial Revolution arrived in England around 1750 and spread gradually throughout the world from there. Especially in Europe and the US, this was the beginning of a new era. The industrial exploitation of the masses initially resulted in an increase of poverty and a decrease in life expectancy.

Roxane Rakic, Psychologist   The issue of overpopulation is usually discussed from an economic food-technical or environmental point of view. It remains a subject, however, which it is difficult to interest people for,

What does the foundation want to achieve? The Foundation The Club of Ten Million makes it their aim to maintain and improve the quality of life of all legal inhabitants of the Netherlands. It sees increasing overpopulation, on a global as well as a national scale,

Jan J. Wester When Australia was discovered, reports about the inhabitants of that far away continent soon got through to Europe. The Austral negroes (as the Aborigines were called until recently) were described as being the most uncivilized people in the world. For they had not accomplished anything to measure civilization by, according to western standards. They walked around half

Prof. Eng. R.A.A. Oldeman Former Professor of Forest Ecology and Management at Wageningen University   The word overpopulation is often used casually, it being taken for granted that everyone knows what it signifies. Everybody claims know what it means, although, unfortunately, the ways in