Support us | Visit us | Contact us This project was a major
study investigating the links between global population and
consumption, and the implications for a finite planet. The final
report People and the Planet was published on 26 April 2012.
Rapid and widespread changes in the world’s human population,
coupled with unprecedented levels of consumption present
profound challenges to human health and wellbeing, and the
natural environment. The combination of these factors is likely
to have far reaching and long-lasting consequences for our
finite planet and will impact on future generations as well as
our own. These impacts raise serious concerns and challenge us
to consider the relationship between people and the planet. It
is not surprising then, that debates about population have
tended to inspire controversy. This report is offered, not as a
definitive statement on these complex topics, but as an overview
of the impacts of human population and consumption on the
planet. It raises questions about how best