This first article is an article that deals with water shortages in correlation to human population. I wasn't able to access the entire article, but the preview abstract posted on the main website has a very strong quote: "Consideration of direct human impacts on global water supply remains a poorly articulated but potentially important facet of the larger global change question." This articulates what I've been researching, which is that the sheer amount of people in the world are depleting the world's natural resources yet, no one wants to acknowledge it. This helps me because it relates directly to my idea for my senior project. That idea being that in the future we will have so little resources that people will die out.
Vörösmarty, Charles. "Global Water Resources: Vulnerability from Climate Change and Population Growth." Science Mag 284 (2000): 1. Print.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/289/5477/284 accessed February 25th, 2010
The second article discusses the ecological effects of humans on the world and their repercussions. This article also describes sustainability and what it takes to be sustainable. "The most serious long-term threat facing the world is the danger that human actions are producting irreversible, harmful changes to the environmental conditions that support life on Earth. If this problem is not overcome, there may be no viable world for our descendants to inhabit. Because this threat is caused by human population growth, overcunsumption, and lack of resource conservation, social scientists have a vital role in helping out world escape ecological disaster and approach a sustainable leve of impact on the environment-one that can be maintained indefinitely."
Oskamp, Stuart. "Psychological contributions to achieving an ecologically sustainable future for Humanity." Journal of Social Issues 56.3 (2000): 373-390. Print.
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