Pamela LeRoy

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Conserving Land: Population and Sustainable Food..		In 1960, when India had 442 million people, it had 0.36 hectares of arable land for each person. By 1990, when India's population was 850 million, the ratio had shrunk to 0.20 hectares per capita. By 2025, it will be 0.12 hectares, even if the country manages to hit the lowest of the UN's three population predictions for the country -- that is, 1.3 billion people. The reason these ratios diminish is simple: a country's supply of land cannot expand (except by conquest).	growth stabilization agriculture
Sustaining Water: Population and the Future ...		There is no more fresh water on the planet today than there was 2,000 years ago when the earth's human population was less than three percent its current [1993] size of 5.5 billion people. Humanity's use of water quadrupled between 1940 and 1990; while half of that increase could be attributed to rising per capita consumption, the other half was purely a function of population growth. 430 million people lived in countries considered water stressed and 1.2 billion whose water supply was dangerously polluted.