Example sentences for: overpopulation

How can you use “overpopulation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • When people think about overcrowding or overpopulation, they typically imagine that if, for example, I had not been born, everyone else would have a slightly bigger share of the pie.

  • Even in the sharper House debate, there was no substantial dispute that overpopulation strains natural resources, contributing to environmental degradation, unemployment, and hunger.

  • Chatterbox, calling on its extensive network of insider contacts, has learned details of future components of the still-secret GoreBore initiative, which will include: A national campaign to convert football fields to the metric system; a Global Engineering Olympics to be televised during halftime of the NCAA championship basketball game; a gigantic Temple of Science to be built on the Mall in Washington, featuring animatronic demographers discussing overpopulation; and a proposal to have "students of the world ... gather and study environmental information on a daily basis and communicate that data to the world through television." ...

  • As Robert Kaplan chronicled in The Ends of the Earth , environmental collapse, tribal conflicts, overpopulation, and urbanization have undermined Third World governments.

  • Also, a story rejects the conventional wisdom that overpopulation is imminent.


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