Overpopulation has long since been an topic of great debate. Recently popularized by the Halloween 2011 spike to the 7 billion mark, “over” population has resurfaced, more haggard than ever. Many manifestos over the years including Malthus’ Essay on the Principal of Population, Ehrlich’s Population Bomb, or Fred Pearce’s recent addition The Coming Population Crash have muddied the waters of population’s projected effects leading people dazed and confused concerning our demise or surprising future. The modern blogger has now appropriated the topic with such popular domains as overpopulationisamyth.com, overpopulation.com, sex-and-overpopulation and so many more I dare not list. The topic itself has maifested itself in so many mediums today that the message has become misconstrued, with only one aspect staying consistent; peoples interpretations of thousands of projections, statistics and philosophies.
In reading countless contradictory materials on the subject, I have narrowed down the popular (and most interesting) associations with the concept to the following 5 side effects:
urbanized density,
food shortage,
illness & pandemics,
waste
climate change.
On each of these five topics, one could read endlessly, and given that few will read multiple articles let alone these two paragraphs given the short time we have left on earth, my exhibition will open the debate for public question through sculptural elements.
