João AbegãoUniversity of Lisbon | UL · Faculty of Letters
João Abegão
Ecology and Environment
Ph.D. Candidate. Thesis on the Limits of Sustainability, Preeminence of Environmental Determinism and Societal Collapse
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Introduction
Ph.D. Candidate. Thesis on the Limits of Sustainability, Preeminence of Environmental Determinism and Societal Collapse and Transformation.
Science Communicator. Sustainable Population Advocate.
TEDx presenter and COP25 panelist.
Regular Columnist for SIC Notícias.
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Publications (6)
Past societies have emerged and collapsed with numerous causes precipitating their breakdown. Leading explanations have materialized through the lens of environmental/ecological, social and cultural, or economic factors, with cascading and synergistic effects between them. All continue to be relevant to our modern civilization. However, the environ...
Humanity is undergoing an unprecedented demographic transformation in that global population is rising from 2 billion in the 1920s
to an expected 8 billion in the 2020s, an annual increase of roughly 80 million. The requirements of this expanding human population
are strongly linked to depletion of wildlife and increasing difficulties facing both w...
Organic waste is a rich substrate for microbial growth, and because of that, workers from waste industry are at higher risk of exposure to bioaerosols. This study aimed to assess fungal contamination in two plants handling solid waste management. Air samples from the two plants were collected through an impaction method. Surface samples were also c...
Recorded at COP25 in Madrid, Spain on December 6, 2019, this may have been the only formal event at the UN climate negotiations where human overpopulation was even discussed. Our burgeoning human numbers constitute a major 'elephant in the room'. It is politically incorrect to even discuss the question of population while at the same time how many...
A fragmentação de ecossistemas é uma das implicações do processo de uso e ocupação antrópico da terra, especialmente em paisagens alteradas por cultivos agrícolas ou florestais. Nesse contexto, o presente estudo objetivou determinar a fragilidade ambiental do município de Capelinha, Vale do Jequitinhonha, Minas Gerais,
Brasil, utilizando-se da técn...
In this first volume of the Human Overpopulation Atlas, the reader is presented with a compilation of scientific literature, as well persuasive argumentation from an array of experts, with the intent on making the case that many of the symptoms of ecological, environmental, sociological, geopolitical and economic predicaments that have tainted our...
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In this first volume of the Human Overpopulation Atlas, the reader is presented with a compilation of scientific literature, as well persuasive argumentation from an array of experts, with the intent on making the case that many of the symptoms of ecological, environmental, sociological, geopolitical and economic predicaments that have tainted our world, have a root cause or can be, indubitably, linked to our vast and rising numbers.
And how could it not? Every new human passenger on this Earth comes equipped with necessary requirements that need to be met to safeguard his or her’s existence and flourishing. That person will require food, water, shelter, clothing, energy, materials, technology, transport, infrastructure, space and security and will, in turn, exude residues and waste, alter habitats and pollute the atmosphere, soil and watercourses.
Even if each and everyone of us contributes in an almost imperceptible way, 7.6 billion and rising is a tremendous number that our minds can’t even begin to conceptualize, with all of those trivial impacts amounting to profound transformations. The Human Overpopulation Atlas describes those deviations.
