Crowded Planet

A powerful look at Earths population crisis, written by award-winning childrens author Anna Claybourne

There are over 8 billion human beings living on Earth. Thats a LOT of people! And the worlds population is still growing, which leads to a big question ... are there too many of us? The human population has been rising since ancient times, but it has zoomed up especially fast over the last 100 years or so. While humans have been on Earth, weve made huge changes to the planet. Weve built cities and roads and taken over wild areas, affecting the other living things we share our world with. Weve polluted our skies, land and seas and are fast using up Earths precious natural resources. How can we lessen our impact on Earth, before its too late?

Contents
A world full of people/The rise of humans/Population explosion/CASE STUDY: Crowded Tokyo/Taking over the world/Food and water/Population and health/Harming wildlife/CASE STUDY: Palm oil plantations/Country populations/Moving around/How many children?/CASE STUDY: Girls education in Kenya/Population pyramids/Ageing populations/Falling populations/CASE STUDY: Plummeting population in Puerto Rico/Up or down?/What can you do?/Into the future

Titles in this series:
Plastic Planet
Hot Planet
Pandemic Planet
Recycled Planet
Sustainable Planet
Extinction Planet
Peaceful Planet?
Unequal Planet
Watery Planet