Many of these articles deal with the effects of population on the environment,
but most make no mention of population! Please help change that by telling
news sources whenever they publish such articles. Together we can make a difference.
A few articles do talk about the link, and we heartily commend them!
Pakistan: Drowning today, Parched tomorrow 2010/08/16
Pakistan's fast-growing population has a very
uncertain outlook for future water supply. Sharing the waters
of the Indus River is a major source of conflict between Pakistan and India.
The U.S. may support a $12 billion agricultural and hydroelectric project.
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Downward Spiral of Hasty Population Growth July, 2010
More frequent need to rebuild roads, bridges, schools undercuts the economics of raising
population to offset future shortage of younger workers. Jane O'Sullivan article about
Australia applies to other nations that rely on high
population growth and high GDP growth.
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Four Urban Growth Boundary measures: on November ballots.
Establish boundary in Cloverdale.
Renew Petaluma's and Santa Rosa's.
Defend San Ramon's.
[ Greenbelt Alliance's] campaign.
The Population Problem is falling Births!!! July, 2010
It is amazing how some news sources report on population.
With population growth as the prime mover behind
28 environmental and social ills,
from traffic to world-wide hunger to "ethnic cleansing", they report on possibe
shortages of workers in 20 years although worker productivity is rising.
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China's Instant Cities 07/2010
Pictures and comments on China's booming construction. "Industry has long been yoked to
visions of utopia, but also ... the toxic emissions,
rising temperatures and habitat fragmentation associated with unchecked growth"
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Water Dispute Increases India - Pakistan Tension July, 2010
Sharing a major river, both countries have large and growing populations
and both need a population policy so that they can live comfortably with the resources available to them.
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Population surge outstrips efforts to eradicate slums
227 million people escaped slum conditions between 2000 and 2010. However, due to population increase
and urban migration the number of slum dwellers increased from 776 million to 827 million.
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Teen pregnancy fashion?
Will trendy advertising
for cute pregnancy clothes encourage teenage girls to think it's cool to be pregnant?
"Forever 21" with 400 stores and 12,000 employees just introduced such a line.
Call their corporate offices 213-741-5100 (& 888-494-3837)
and let them know what you think.
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Climate Change:
Calling Planet Birth
Family size is the great unmentionable in the campaign for more environmentally friendly lifestyles.
Having 1 less child in the US would reduce carbon emissions 19 times more than
all the E.P.A.'s recommended actions combined. -
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Gulf Oil Spill 2010: The burgeoning population forces us to take
the unknown risks of drilling in mile-deep ocean. Here are two
of many stories about the debacle:
Oil Hit Home- Arc of Frustration in Louisiana- May, 2010 - [ article]
Deepwater Reefs threatened by Gulf Oil Spill- June 1, 2010 - 1200 foot deep ecosystem threated
by oil and by the dispersants.
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Senate Gets Climate & Energy Bill- As Gulf Oil Spill grows, the Bill proposes even more drilling,
but no efforts to limit population growth.
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The Critics Deconstructed Intersting article about the attacks against population activists,
and the need for population awareness
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The Last Taboo What unites the Vatican, lefties, conservatives,
environmentalists and scientists in a conspiracy of silence?
Read
The Last Taboo
by Julia Whitty in the June 2010 issue of
Mother Jones: "Who's to Blame for the Population Crisis?"
Population Growth is Bad For San Diego -Apr 2010
"Rather than throwing all our efforts at trying to handle ever-increasing
numbers of people, we should be directing our efforts at preventing the increase."
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Drop in Birthrates in 2008 is Linked to Recession -Apr 2010
Population growth is not inevitable. When incentives favor postponing having children,
many people do.
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Smart Growth? the smart alternative is No Growth
Although city planners are trained to call some patterns of growth 'smart',
in many areas the only truely smart alternative is No Growth
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Parting the Waters - mid-East wars over Water Rights - March 31, 2010.
30 of the 37 Wars over Water in the past 60 years involve Israel and its neighbors.
Fewer people living in these desert regions would leave more water per person. This should
inform the population policies of all countries involved.
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Florida's Seafood Becomes Less Local - March 31, 2010.
Florida used to be a by-word for the abundance of the sea. Now the "trash fish" of
30 years ago may be too rare to fish commercially or recreationally. Isn't this a clarion call
to reduce our human population so that we can again enjoy the abundance of nature???
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California's Pipe Dream - a water crisis.
March 27, 2010.
A clear summary of water use in California, with it's agricultural,
environmental, residential, and development needs.
With population growing at about 300,000 a year, we'll have to stop watering our gardens
and drink recycled urine....unless we stop the numerous projects designed to keep
people coming.
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See National Geographic's "Water" issue, April 2010
Peak Oil 2005-2012-2020?
March 16, 2010.
Three recent articles with different estimates of the year of peak
oil production. The more we can stop population growth and begin to
reduce oil energy consumption, especially in the industrialized countries, the longer our
supplies of relatively abundant fuel and historically cheap transportation will last.
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Also see
peak oil
More:
Population, Nature, and What Women Want by Robert Engelman.
In this new book, Engelman offers a vision that celebrates women’s widespread desire
for smaller families. Mothers aren’t seeking more children, he argues, but more for their
children. If they’re able to realize their intentions, we just might suffer less climate change, hunger,
and disease, not to mention sky-high housing costs and infuriating traffic jams.
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Global Population Speak Out (GPSO) - February 2010
A month-long grassroots initiative urging us each to take action
around population. Population is an approachable issue, especially in the
context of sustainability initiatives and discussions; we can each make a difference.
Over 150 sponsors, and 229 actions reported so far. Visit their
website, learn more, and become a population activist.
California Water Myths: Finger Pointing
Dec 14,2009 Legislation will force urban users to decrease water usage
20% by 2020. The authors say we shouldn't blame agriculture. That's true, but they don't
mention
overpopulation. They don't say that if population doesn't grow 20%, we won't have to cut back
our water usage. Might this glaring ommision have anything to do with the political and
economic power of the developer's lobby in Sacramento? Hmmm...
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Oceans' Absorption of Emissions Is Slowing
Nov 19,2009 The Oceans have absorbed the Greenhouse Gas CO2 in vast quantities, but the intake
rate has slowed markedly since 2000. The more it
absorbs, the more acidic it becomes, and the less it can absorb. This is one more effect
of population growth on the environment; one more factor that may push the environment across a
tipping point...
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Warming Increased in Last Decade
Dec 9,2009 Copenhagen: The World Meteorological Organization reported that 2000-2009 has been warmer
than the 1990's, which were in turn warmer than the 1980's. Yet the Climatological Conference
has been dominated by bickering between the "rich" and the "poor" nations. And
nobody is talking about overpopulation which is driving the increased emissions of
both rich and poor nations.
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Finding a Way to Cut Numbers
Nov 20, 2009 Three ways population is finding it's way back into the news, sometimes
quite circuitously.
women's greater suffering because of climate change.
British comission said curbing population growth through
contraception must be at the heart of efforts to combat global warming.
Iran has promoted ontraception through the mosques. Average number of children fell from 7
to 1.9.
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Population Problem Solves Itself?
Nov 2: Amazing? But the November cover of "The Economist" makes that claim.
Maybe that's not too surprising when you consider all
the
money to be made from rising population.
But I don't think 3 billion more people in the world will help solve our environmental
problems. How about you?
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October 21, 2009
The technological solutions to the world's problems can not succeed if we do not address the
factor of population growth. The Green Revolution of the 60's&70's was supposed to end world
hunger, but we now have over 1 billion hungry people, many more than before that technological fix.
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October 2, 2009
Oct 2, 2009 Drought is ever more common in the U.S. as well. Global Warming may play a part, but the
authors conclude that the root of the water problem in the Southeast is the growing population.
In Georgia, the population rose from 6.48 million in 1990 to 9.54 million in 2007.
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