Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future

Visit WorldChanging

Designing with Peak Population in Mind

Posted on September 29, 2008

This article was written by Alex Steffen in February 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective.Sometime in the latter half of this century, human population will peak. Having swelled to a bit over nine billion people, our numbers will begin to drop as people age and women worldwide pass through the urban transition, gain control over their own life-choices and have fewer children.After that, population will proceed to decline by the middle of the 22nd century to a number somewhere between 8.5 billion and 5.6 billion (depending it seems largely on whose ...

Original article link


finland , italy , japan , recycling , studies , sustainability , sustainable , sustainable design