The world’s most famous climate scientist just outlined an alarming scenario for our planet’s future

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http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/population_and_sustainability/extinction/

HUMAN OVERPOPULATION AND EXTINCTION
We're in the midst of the Earth’s sixth mass extinction crisis. Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson estimates that 30,000 species per year (or three species per hour) are being driven to extinction. Compare this to the natural background rate of one extinction per million species per year, and you can see why scientists refer to it as a crisis unparalleled in human history.

The current mass extinction differs from all others in being driven by a single species rather than a planetary or galactic physical process.
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Humans annually absorb 42 percent of the Earth’s terrestrial net primary productivity,30 percent of its marine net primary productivity, and 50 percent of its fresh water [3].
Forty percent of the planet’s land is devoted to human food production, up from 7 percent in 1700 [3].
Fifty percent of the planet’s land mass has been transformed for human use [3].
More atmospheric nitrogen is now fixed by humans that all other natural processes combined [3].

The authors of Human Domination of Earth's Ecosystems, including the current director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, concluded:

"All of these seemingly disparate phenomena trace to a single cause: the growing scale of the human enterprise. The rates, scales, kinds, and combinations of changes occurring now are fundamentally different from those at any other time in history. . . . We live on a human-dominated planet and the momentum of human population growth, together with the imperative for further economic development in most
of the world, ensures that our dominance will increase."

http://www.postconsumers.com/education/10-facts-overpopulation/

10 Lively Facts About Population Growth
We don’t talk much about overpopulation at Postconsumers because, frankly, we’re more concerned with how the people who do populate the planet choose to live and find their own individual level of satisfaction (paired with responsible choices). But the rate at which the world population is compounding is staggering, and it has some major implications for one of our favorite topics, the sustainability of the planet. Today, take a look around you and then think about these ten facts regarding population growth.

There were TONS of articles on the subject. Popular press AND Scholarly. These are just two, because trying to pick out a few most salient was overwhelming.