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Human overpopulation
undesirable condition where human numbers exceed the current carrying capacity of the environment / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Overpopulation means that the population of a place is too high. Specifically, there are too many organisms of a certain species in a habitat, so the number of organisms living there is larger than the carrying capacity of the habitat. The habitat cannot support these numbers over time without hurting itself.
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The term "overpopulation" is most often used to refer to the number of humans living on Earth.[3]