The Tunisian Abdul-Rahman is currently working on an e-book titled African Overpopulation Trap: When God Balance Is Broken. His aim is to inform the African people about the devastating consequences of overpopulation. In the last sixty years the number of Africans has multiplied, on the average with a factor near five, whereas the population in the west has only doubled, in the worst case.

Wim Couwenberg in Civis Mundi, April 2008   1.       Introduction If we want to put an end to the huge unequality of living chances in the world, in accordance with principles of justice which support the human rights ideology as envisaged by the Millennium Objectives of the UN, is there then enough ecological basis for such a rearrangement of living chances?

Albert J. M. Wessendorp, Psychologist-Psychotherapist   While our opinion, as members of the foundation, is that the population needs to shrink, there are others here in the Netherlands who feel it is not quite busy enough yet to merit concern.

1.         Awareness According to studies, 60% of the Dutch population thinks the country is too full. When people say that the Netherlands is chock full of people, concrete and asphalt, they are expressing their feelings.

Jan C. H. M. Hillegers, Theologian and Franciscan   Survival is a creative art. All manner of organisms, plants as well as animals, possess this skill. In order to do so, they have all developed their own particular characteristics and peculiarities, which serve to solve problems.