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Category Archives: Population
Rob Mielcarski: You know you are in trouble when…
[ This is from the outstanding blog by Rob Mielcarski (un-denial.com) which you can see here. I cant think of anything he’s left out… Alice Friedemann www.energyskeptic.com author of “When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation”, 2015, … Continue reading
Posted in Conserve Energy, Critical Thinking, Population, What to do
Tagged critical thinking, Rob Mielcarski
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Family Planning – A Special and Urgent Concern by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
[ Below are excerpts from this May 5, 1966 speech by Martin Luther King Jr. after he was awarded the Margaret Sanger Award by Planned Parenthood ] Recently, the press has been filled with reports of sightings of flying saucers. … Continue reading
Nature: All women in the world should have the right to birth control
Source: Masri L (2019) “Two is enough” Egypt tells poor families as population booms. The Star. Preface. Nature is one of the top science journals, so it is a big deal that Nature finally acknowledged a growing population will wreak … Continue reading
Posted in Population, Scientists Warnings to Humanity
Tagged family planning, overpopulation, population
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Pedro Prieto on Population
[I haven’t always agreed with Pedro about population, but I think he’s right now. It’s too late to do anything about overshoot, and we probably could have never done anything about it because we are animals. Though still, it is … Continue reading
Population posts on the internet
[Below are posts I’ve run across on population. It will be left to Mother Nature to cut our numbers back to what the earth can support after fossil fuels decline. In the brief 100 years or so the oil-boom lasted, … Continue reading
Posted in Population, Scientists Warnings to Humanity
Tagged consumption, overpopulation, Paul Erlich
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PNAS: Human population reduction is not a quick fix
Human population reduction is not a quick fix for environmental problems by Corey J. A. Bradshaw and Barry W. Brook Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Edited by Paul R. Ehrlich, Stanford University, and approved September 15, 2014 … Continue reading
Posted in Birth Control, Population, Scientists Warnings to Humanity
Tagged catastrophe, demography, fertility, mortality, war
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Iran succeeds in reducing birth rate without coercion
How Iran Became One of the World’s Most Futuristic Countries May 2, 2014 Annalee Newitz In Iran, during the 1980s conflict with Iraq, the Ayatollah Khomeini instituted new government regulations that encouraged women to have as many children as they … Continue reading
Posted in Population
Tagged birth control, contraception, population
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