Overpopulation is when the human population grows beyond the carrying capacity of the environment. This means that there are more people than the amount of essential resources available for survival, such as food, water, shelter, and transportation.

Population Alarmists who buy into the overpopulation myth believe that the world’s growing population will strip the Earth of its useable resources and will outpace innovation and rates of production. This, they believe, will cause diminishing standards of living, more poverty, more hunger, famine and starvation, water shortages, pestilence, war and conflict over diminishing resources, the evisceration of wildlife habitats, and environmental catastrophes (i.e. global climate change).

Humanity can refer to the human race, the qualities that make us human, or the studies of human culture