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Tag Archives: fertility
John Howe on one child per woman: still too high to stay under limits to growth curves
Preface. I first published this post in 2012 and have updated it today. Below I summarize a part of a 2012 article by John Howe on having one child … Continue reading
Posted in Birth Control, Overpopulation, Population
Tagged collapse, fertility, overpopulation, population
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Tom Murphy Stubborn Expectations (on population)
U.N.Total fertility rate projections Preface. Tom Murphy has one of the best blogs on limits to growth, energy resources and more in his blog Do The Math. He is a professor emeritus of the departments of Physics and Astronomy & … Continue reading
Posted in Overpopulation, Scientists
Tagged collapse, fertility, limits to growth, population
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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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