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Population Growth and Landlessness

This chapter focuses on the role of population growth in landlessness. The more people that exist, the more the earth's resources get consumed by human beings. We use more water, fish more fish, burn more energy, and consume more nonrenewable minerals and hydrocarbons. We cut down more forests and pollute more air. Indeed, the more people there are on the planet, the more damage we do to the environment. And ecological destruction creates more landlessness. The chapter then considers what the prospects are for controlling the size of the world's population. Ultimately, using contraception and delayed marriage to reduce the number of births is a much more appealing solution than having the population reduced by war, famine, or catastrophic plague.