In all this talk about logistic population growth and carrying capacities, it's important to recognize that the human population, in a worldwide sense, also has a carrying capacity. The Earth canno...

Ecology is found in classic literature of all sorts. Charles Dickens, for example, touched on the ethical questions of human population growth and density in many of his novels. One of Dickens' mos...

The term "arms race" came into the public’s psyche during the Cold War between the USSR and the United States. During this time, each country spent billions of dollars and millions of man-hours p...