Volunteer to Distribute Free Endangered Species Condoms
Be a part of the Center for Biological Diversity’s brand-new Endangered Species Condom Project, a campaign to nationally distribute free condoms in six different packages featuring endangered species threatened by human overpopulation, with the goal of raising awareness about overpopulation’s serious impacts on our planet. The packages will be released [...]
2010 Global Population Speak Out commences
The GPSO idea
GPSO was born of a simple idea: What if a large number of qualified voices worldwide, many of whom might not have emphasized the topic previously, were to speak out on overpopulation all at once? The strength of numbers might help weaken the taboo and bring population issues to [...]
UK suspends Indian student visa applications
The UK Border Agency has temporarily suspended student visa applications from northern India, Nepal and Bangladesh after a jump in numbers.
In the last three months of last year, there were 13,500 applications from northern India alone, compared with 1,800 in the same period of 2008.
British officials say the system has been overwhelmed and there are [...]
Cost of UK flood protection doubles to £1bn a year
More than half a million homes are at “significant” risk of flooding and the cost of protecting them will double to £1bn a year by 2035, according to the latest data from the Environment Agency (EA).
The rising costs will be incurred from the impacts of climate change that will take effect in the coming decades, [...]
Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People
Continuing population and consumption growth will mean that the global demand for food will increase for at least another 40 years. Growing competition for land, water, and energy, and the overexploitation of fisheries, will affect our ability to produce food, as will the urgent requirement to reduce the impact of the food system on the [...]
Jobless Indians ‘face ruin’ in UK
A section of Indians who have come to the United Kingdom on student visas say they are facing financial ruin as they cannot find work. Many have been getting free meals at a Sikh gurdwara in west London, as Poonam Taneja of BBC Asian Network reports.
It is lunchtime in the kitchen of the Sri Guru [...]
One in five pregnancies ‘unplanned’
Nearly one in five babies due to be born this year were conceived by accident, according to a survey of expectant mothers.
The high number of unplanned pregnancies could be the result of some adventurous sexual exploits, as the same poll revealed almost half the conceptions took place outside the bedroom.
More than 1,000 parents-to-be were quizzed [...]
French fishermen fear end of sushi bonanza
“They will be disappointed today. Mackerel and sardines are just not there,” says a fish trader at the Pecherie Cettoise, next to the Sete wholesale fish market. “It’s the tuna, they eat the other fish and there are too many of them.”
Environmentalists say the bluefin tuna — much sought after in Japan — must be [...]
Australian PM Shrugs off Population Growth
Lisa Valentine | Thursday, January 28th, 2010 at 3:05 pm
Could this be Bondi Beach in the year 2050?
Shocking new figures released by the Australian government show that the Australian population could rise to almost 35 million by the year 2050 – largely due to the number of Australian immigrants.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has previously been [...]
New-morning after drug is abortion pill, campaigners say
A new morning-after pill that can stop women becoming pregnant for almost a week after unprotected sex has prompted a row over fair access to medication.
The drug, ulipristal acetate (UA), is effective up to five days after sex compared with the three-day window offered by the conventional emergency pill. It was licensed [...]
Indochinese tigers on brink of extinction: WWF
A new report by wildlife group WWF says tiger populations in the region that includes Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam have fallen to 350 from an estimated 1,200 in 1998.
Globally, tiger populations are at an all-time low of 3,200, down from an estimated 5,000 to 7,000 some 12 years ago.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60P5F520100126?
Pupil to be taught about sex at seven
Pupils will be taught about how boys and girls develop – including the production of sperm and eggs – before they leave primary school, it was disclosed.
New-style lessons between the age of seven and 11 will also focus on the importance of strong relationships and marriage – as well as the risks of abuse and [...]
U.S., U.K. Face Common Security Issues
Three international issues that showcase common values held by the United States and the United Kingdom also highlight the benefits of a common approach to dealing with them, U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III told members of Parliament here today.
Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III tours Parliament during a visit to London, [...]
Pupils get advice to ‘delay sex’
The life skills subject - PSHE is to become compulsory from 2011
School children in England are to be given advice designed to protect them from feeling pressurised into becoming sexually active at too early an age.
The updated curriculum for sex education emphasises the need to protect children from being “bullied” by a sexualised culture.
The guidance [...]
Beijing mayor says city faces serious pollution
Beijing’s mayor Guo Jinlong said on Monday that the Chinese capital faces an “extremely serious” pollution problem, unveiling a target for “blue sky days” below the number achieved for all of 2009.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60O0UC20100125?
Caroline Lucas: You Ask The Questions
The great Malthusian fraud has reared its head again. Will your party take a stand in declaring overpopulation simply a way of blaming the developing world for the sins of the rich? Timothy Dark, Leicester
On a planet of finite resources, increasing population growth is clearly a [...]
Hundreds protest S.China project over pollution worries
Hundreds of protesters in southern China donned masks to protest a planned incinerator plant, the latest grassroots initiative to target polluting projects in the region.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60O10K20100125?
Should the formal retirement age be abolished?
A report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission has today prompted a very controversial and deep thinking argument regarding the UK retirement system. The commission has called on the government to abolish the formal retirement age and indeed introduce incentives for employers to retain those more mature workers and use their experience for as [...]
World’s glaciers continue to melt at historic rates
World’s glaciers continue to melt at historic rates
Latest figures show the world’s glaciers are continuing to melt so fast that many will disappear by the middle of this century
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The last American wild jaguar dies
The last American wild jaguar - a male by the name of Macho B - was captured illegally by Arizona state officials, concludes a new US government report on the incident.
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http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2010/01/the-last-american-wild-jaguar.html
Governments, business seen too slow to save climate: poll
The survey of about 24,000 people in 23 countries, conducted in the lead up to, during and following the Copenhagen Climate Conference in December last year, found 65 percent of respondents were not happy with the progress and actions to date to conserve the environment.
Only 35 percent said their government and business leaders were doing [...]
Domestic Abuse May Affect Reproductive Freedom
In some abusive relationships, men may use strategies to force women to become pregnant, including sabotaging their birth control, researchers reported.
In a cross-sectional study of women treated at five family clinics across northern California about 20 per cent of women said that their partner tried to coerce them into having a child, wrote Elizabeth Miller, MD, [...]
Egypt: A bitter pill to swallow
An ad campaign calls on Egyptians to use family planning more diligently – by trying to make larger families feel guilty.
A remarkably clumsy government-sponsored television campaign has recently hit the Egyptian airwaves. It encourages people to cap their offspring to two children, but only by making those with larger families feel bad about their choices.
The [...]
Economic growth ‘cannot continue’
Continuing global economic growth “is not possible” if nations are to tackle climate change, a report by an environmental think-tank has warned.
The New Economics Foundation (Nef) said “unprecedented and probably impossible” carbon reductions would be needed to hold temperature rises below 2C (3.6F).
Scientists say exceeding this limit could lead to dangerous global warming.
“We urgently need [...]
Uganda draws up national irrigation strategy
The Ugandan government is in the advanced stages of developing and promoting irrigation throughout the country in a bid to respond to droughts that have dented the country’s food security.
For generations, Ugandan farmers have relied, and thrived, on rainfall to water the land, with irrigation mostly associated with large-scale schemes for crops like rice or [...]
Boys who see porn more likely to harass girls
BOYS exposed to porn are more likely to indulge in casual sex and less likely to form successful relationships when they grow older, according to research carried out in a dozen countries.
The report, Harms of Pornography Exposure Among Children and Young People, also found that young boys who see pornography are more [...]
Traffic fumes increase the risks of child pneumonia
Children who live near a main road are in greater danger of catching pneumonia because pollution from passing traffic damages their lungs. A leading expert in childhood breathing difficulties has made the link between exposure to particles from vehicle exhausts and a child’s susceptibility to the chest infection, which can be fatal.
Professor Jonathan Grigg, an [...]
Piece of cod is becoming a luxury item
Cod is becoming a weekend mealtime treat for British families as the cost of traditional fish-and-chip dinners soars, .
Consumption of cod is falling as prices rise and shoppers no longer see it as an everyday food, according to market research analysts TNS, who found that consumption fell by 1.4% in the year to August 2009. [...]
HEALTH SERVICES SAY ‘YOU’RE WELCOME’ TO YOUNG PEOPLE
Talking about health issues with young people can be difficult, particularly those issues that are sensitive. Youth workers are often the first point of contact so they need to have a good understanding and a knowledge of how best to deal with the issues. The Department of Health’s programme ‘You’re Welcome’, which is backed up [...]
Claims over Polish immigrants’ return ‘not true’
A Polish expert on migration says claims that half of all Polish immigrants to Britain have returned home are not true.
The Migration Policy Institute had said 1.5m people from new EU states, mostly Poles, had come to the UK since 2004 and that more than half had now left.
Immigration minister Phil Woolas said only about [...]
Governments ‘must tackle’ roots of nature crisis
Governments must tackle the underlying causes of biodiversity loss if they are to stem the rate at which ecosystems and species are disappearing.
That was one of the conclusions of an inter-governmental workshop in London held in preparation for October’s UN biodiversity summit in Nagoya, Japan.
Delegates agreed that protecting nature would bring economic benefits to nations [...]
One quarter of US grain crops fed to cars - not people
One-quarter of all the maize and other grain crops grown in the US now ends up as biofuel in cars rather than being used to feed people, according to new analysis which suggests that the biofuel revolution launched by former President George Bush in 2007 is impacting on world food supplies.
The 2009 figures from the [...]
Why the Environmental Movement Dropped Population – the DVD You’ve Been Waiting to See – at no cost
Free DVD Copies of PBS’ To The Contrary with Bonnie Erbé’s Three part series on how and why the US Environmental Movement dropped US population from its agenda. Series won the Population Institute’s “Best TV Show” Media Award. DVDs made available to you through the generous support of the Colcom Foundation
(Washington, D.C.) — The PBS [...]
CITY SCHOOLKIDS TO GET FREE CONDOMS
Coventry is the latest city to turn to the c-card to tackle its high teen pregnancy rates and STIs.
Jane Craig, manager of the city’s Respect Yourself programme, said evidence showed making contraception properly available across the city was the best way to cut teen pregnancy rates.
She said: “There will be window stickers in all venues [...]
Bee decline linked to falling biodiversity
The decline of honeybees seen in many countries may be caused by reduced plant diversity, research suggests.
Bees fed pollen from a range of plants showed signs of having a healthier immune system than those eating pollen from a single type, scientists found.
Writing in the journal Biology Letters, the French team says that bees need a [...]
South Koreans told to go home and make babies
South Korean government workers are being presented with an unusual suggestion - go home and multiply.
At 1900 on Wednesday, officials at the Ministry of Health will turn off all the lights in the building.
They want to encourage staff to go home to their families and, well, make bigger ones. They plan to repeat the experiment [...]
Lords debate role of contraception in reducing emissions
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they have investigated whether increased expenditure on contraceptive services globally would produce a greater reduction of carbon dioxide emissions than many green technologies.
Lord Brett: My Lords, an individual’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions depends on the goods and services consumed over their lifetime. Countries with the highest population growth [...]
World’s glaciers melting at accelerated pace
From the Alps to the Andes, the world’s glaciers are retreating at an accelerated pace - despite the recent controversy over claims by the United Nations’ body of experts, leading climate scientists said today.
Lonnie Thompson, a glaciologist at Ohio State University, said there is strong evidence from a variety of sources of significant melting of [...]
Crawfish sighting plea to Welsh divers
Recreational divers in Wales are being asked for help monitoring crawfish levels following concern over a “dramatic” fall in numbers.
Crawfish - also known as crayfish, spiny or rock lobster - have a vital role in marine ecosystems, according to the Wales Biodiversity Partnership.
The group is funding a project asking dive clubs around Wales to record [...]
Cash incentive for families to halt Japan’s population decline
Japanese families are to receive 13,000 yen (£86) a month for each of their children from April to help to ease child-rearing costs and to encourage them to have more babies, after the number of births fell by 2 per cent in 2009 from the previous year. Health officials said that 22,000 fewer Japanese babies [...]
Thames eel populations crash by 98% in five years, scientists warn
Eel populations in the river Thames have crashed by 98% in just five years, scientists warned today.
The eel, which has been a traditional east London dish for centuries, now appears to be vanishing from the capital’s river, according to researchers from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL).
Each year, ZSL’s Tidal Thames Conservation Project places eel [...]
Moorlands and hills targeted to grow crops for biomass and biofuels
One tenth of Britain, including moorlands and hillsides, could be used to grow crops for biomass and biofuels. Countryside protection groups warned that this would turn large swaths of the countryside into monocultural landscapes and pose a threat to wildlife.
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI), a £1bn public-private investment body, said it was launching a project [...]
UN drops deadline for countries to state climate change targets
The UN has dropped the 31 January deadline by which time all countries were expected to officially state their emission reduction targets or list the actions they planned to take to counter climate change.
Yvo de Boer, UN climate change chief, today changed the original date set at last month’s fractious Copenhagen climate summit, saying that [...]
China to maintain low birth rate: Vice Premier
Tuesday, 19 January, 2010
Xinhua General News Service (China)
BEIJING — Vice Premier Li Keqiang said on Tuesday China would continue to pursue a low birth rate while actively coping with problems such as sex ratio imbalance and the aging of population.
Li made the remarks when inspecting the National Population and Family Planning Commission.
China still faced pressure [...]
Russia proposes new measures to boost birthrate
Wednesday, 20 January, 2010
RIA Novosti (Russia)
MOSCOW — Russia’s government proposed new measures on Tuesday to fight low birthrate and a dwindling population that experts warn has endangered economic growth, the country’s role in world affairs and possibly its territorial integrity.
Speaking at a session of the Presidential council on demographic policy, Health Minister Tatyana Golikova said [...]
Update to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health Report
Thanks to Karen Newman of the Population and Sustainability Network in the UK for these links and the attached fact sheet on climate change and population. The Network was established to clarify and communicate the importance for sustainability of both population and consumption factors. It aims to bring together development, environment and reproductive health NGOs, [...]
Pakistan’s Daunting – and Deteriorating – Demographic Challenge
Thanks to Tod Preston and Bob Walker for bringing my attention to this blog posting by Tod on the Woodrow Wilson Center’s “New Security Beat”. See http://newsecuritybeat.blogspot.com/2009/04/guest-contributor-tod-preston-on.html. Also, thanks to Jon Legg for the link to an October 31st BBC program, “Dying to Give Birth,” about giving birth in Pakistan, which you can hear at [...]
Yemen still wedded to child marriages; Young brides’ dreams shattered
Thirteen-year-old Sally al-Sabahi stood outside the courthouse earlier this month fiddling with her smudged, half-polished nails. She was hoping to get a divorce, but her husband did not show up.
When Sally was 11, her father married her to 23-year-old Nabil al-Mushahi, a cousin. Since the wedding, she has run away from her husband’s home three [...]
Fox News Interview on Population with Carter Dillard
Thanks to Carter Dillard, Westerfield Fellow at Loyola University New Orleans, for this link to his interview by Fox News on population issues. He did an admirable job under somewhat difficult circumstances. Watch the interview at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOM9bT-FqRE
http://www.populationmedia.org/2010/01/16/fox-news-interview-on-population-with-carter-dillard/
Baby boom mirrors jobs gloom
The recession and the difficulty of finding a job are encouraging an increasing number of women to bring forward their plans to have a baby.
The UK birthrate usually falls during a recession - and, typically, the trend has been for it to continue falling until after the recession ends.
However, despite the longest recession in 40 [...]
One in three newborns in Philippines ‘unwanted’
One in three newborns in the Philippines is unwanted or unplanned, the government said Thursday, as the country struggles with a population explosion and the Church’s opposition to birth control.
The fertility rate of Filipino women stood at 3.3 children, even though four out of 10 said they preferred to have only two children, the National [...]
Biodiversity nears ‘point of no return’
The decline in the world’s biodiversity is approaching a point of no return, warns Hilary Benn. In this week’s Green Room, the UK’s environment secretary urges the international community to seize the chance to act before it is too late.
Much greater concerted effort is needed to stop the plunder of our ecosystems
In 2002, [...]
Overpopulation – Technology Solution
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Uncertain future for food
In the near future global food supplies will become less secure and prices more volatile.
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This chilling prediction was made by Meat and Livestock Commission Chairman Peter Barr as he opened the organisation’s annual Outlook Conference today.
The event, held in London, attracted delegates from [...]
Lib Dem Clegg considers regional migration limits
The Liberal Democrats are considering a plan to channel immigration to certain areas of the country.
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg told BBC One’s Andrew Marr show the South East of England was facing pressure on resources due to its rising population.
He said other countries had shown it was “relatively easy” to target immigration at areas [...]
‘If the Tories are serious about immigration it will be in the manifesto’
It was good to see an Archbishop give the political system a hefty kick last week. Lord Carey’s courageous intervention in support of the cross-party group called Balanced Migration certainly caught the attention of the public and gave a huge boost to their campaign to get immigration down close to the [...]
After the big freeze, the baby boom
Maternity services are preparing for a surge in conceptions among couples who have been confined to their homes for long nights and cosy days during the coldest winter for almost five decades.
Studies abroad have identified a sharp rise in the number of births nine months after [...]
EU unlikely to extend emissions cuts: ministers
The EU has set a target of cutting carbon dioxide (CO2) by 20 percent from 1990 levels over the next decade. It promised ahead of climate talks in Copenhagen in December that it would deepen those cuts to 30 percent if other countries did likewise.
The United Nations has fixed a January 31 deadline for countries [...]
Asia’s greed for ivory puts African elephant at risk
There has been a massive surge in illegal ivory trading, researchers warned last week. They have found that more than 14,000 products made from the tusks and other body parts of elephants were seized in 2009, an increase of more than 2,000 on their previous analysis in 2007.
Details of this disturbing rise have been revealed [...]
OPT Facebook group reaches 1,100 members
The world population has grown by 3 billion i.e. doubled in the last fifty years, and is forecast to grow by almost another 3 billion by 2050.
Overpopulation is one of the key drivers of climate change, habitat loss, species extinction, declining quality of life, pollution, food and water insecurity, resource depletion, migration and conflict.
The OPT [...]
Spain sees sharp drop in migrants from Africa
The Canary Islands have often been the point of entry for migrants
Spain says the number of migrants coming to the country by sea from Africa fell by almost half in 2009.
Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said 7,285 such migrants arrived in Spain last year, compared with 13,425 in 2008.
The number reaching the Canary [...]
Population boom
For half a century experts have cited population growth as a major obstacle to sustainable development, and overpopulation has been blamed for just about every social and economic ill in the country. On Sunday Mrs Suzanne Mubarak, head of the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood (NCCM), once again threw the spotlight on this perennial [...]
Report’s call to avoid ‘assumptions’ on asylum seekers
Asylum seekers’ main objective was finding a place of safety, report says
Asylum policy making should be based on solid evidence rather than “unfounded assumptions”, says the author of new research about asylum seekers.
Prof Heaven Crawley, of Swansea University’s migration policy research centre, said most had little choice of which country they claimed asylum in.
Policies designed [...]
Arctic polar bears imperilled by man-made pollution
The long term survival of polar bears is being threatened by man-made pollution that is reaching the Arctic.
This conclusion comes from a major review of research into how industrial chemicals such as mercury and organochlorines affect the bears.
The review suggests that such chemicals have a range of subclinical effects.
When added together, these can have a [...]
Climate change: investors ignore it at your peril
In the investment world it is a challenge to predict with accuracy what will happen in the next week, let alone the next decade. But there are three trends which are set to unfold in the coming years which will have such a major impact on the global economy that the investment implications are reasonably [...]
Spain calls for Europe-wide protection for battered women
Spain launched a campaign for a Europe-wide system of restraint orders aimed at curbing violence against women, calling for crime statistics to be reconfigured to highlight gender violence and for EU legislation offering protection to battered women across national borders.
Opening Madrid’s six-month rotating presidency of the EU and seeking to build on its progressive governance [...]
China faces growing gender imbalance
In some provinces, 130 boys are born for each 100 girls
More than 24 million Chinese men of marrying age could find themselves without spouses by 2020, says the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
The gender imbalance among newborns is the most serious demographic problem for the country’s population of 1.3 billion, says the academy.
It [...]
Women ‘wary’ of pill side effects
A quarter of sexually active women “take a break” from the contraceptive pill because of unwelcome side effects or fears for their future health, a study has shown.
Research on 277 women in Ireland showed 22% stopped taking the pill because they developed mood swings, while 20% blamed the contraceptive for weight gain, 12% said it [...]
2010 Global Population Speak Out
The Population Institute is pleased to announce that the 2010 Global Population Speak Out (GPSO) will commence on February 1st and run through the whole month.
GPSO is designed to promote a new and responsible global discussion — one that recognizes a healthy and stable population is a prerequisite of global sustainability.
Endorsed by high profile scientists [...]
Cameron: ‘70million is too many. I’ll cut immigration by 75 per cent’
David Cameron said a Tory government would set an annual migration cap
Immigration would be cut by as much as 75 per cent under a Conservative government to prevent Britain’s population hitting 70million, David Cameron said today.
He said he wanted to see annual net immigration levels fall from the 200,000 figure of recent years to the [...]
Retirement age rules ‘arbitrary’ says Harriet Harman
Retirement age rules ‘arbitrary’ says Harriet Harman
Some employers encourage people to work beyond 65
Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman has signalled a wish to change the law that would allow people to work beyond the age of 65.
In the UK, a worker can see their employment end at the age of 65 without any redundancy payment [...]
World’s biodiversity ‘crisis’ needs action, says UN
By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website
The Giant Jewel of West Africa is threatened by loss of forest
The UN has launched the International Year of Biodiversity, warning that the ongoing loss of species around the world is affecting human well-being.
Eight years ago, governments pledged to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010, [...]
Welcome back family planning
“When women and girls have the ability to plan their families … they and their communities flourish” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared today in a speech renewing U.S. support for universal access to reproductive health services and supplies around the world. “Investing is not only right thing to do, it is the smart thing [...]
Rise in sham marriages to beat UK immigration laws
The number of suspected sham marriages by illegal immigrants has leapt by more than half in the past year.
Figures from the Home Office show a 54% jump in suspected cases reported by registrars in England and Wales.
The leap comes after the Law Lords overturned a government scheme designed to stop illegal immigrants marrying.
Registrars have told [...]
Scottish minister gives green light to controversial 137-mile power line
Britain’s largest overhead power line project has been approved despite fierce protests over the decision to erect towering pylons along 220km of the Highland’s finest scenery.
The long-awaited go ahead for the power line, which will stretch from Beauly near Inverness to Denny near Falkirk on pylons up to 65m high, is expected to kickstart a [...]
Methane release ‘looks stronger’
Scientists have uncovered what appears to be a further dramatic increase in the leakage of methane gas that is seeping from the Arctic seabed.
Methane is about 20 times more potent than CO2 in trapping solar heat.
The findings come from measurements of carbon fluxes around the north of Russia, led by Igor Semiletov from the University [...]
Secretary of State Clinton to Deliver Major Speech Renewing U.S. Support
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will deliver a major speech Friday, January 8, 2010 to mark the 15th year of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). Secretary Clinton will announce the U.S. Government’s renewed support for and dedication to reaching the ICPD goals and other related UN agreements, including the Millennium Development [...]
“Population Ethics for the 21st Century”
by Michael Tobias
Awareness exacts a price. In a world of scarcity, political and ecological triage will inevitably figure. Even with a projected $50 trillion annual economy, the increasing number of newborns on the planet will not make decisions any easier. Will one set out to assist Russia, Brazil, Indonesia, or Mali? The school system in [...]
MPs urge ‘70m population cap’ in party manifesto
A cross-party group of MPs and peers have called on the main parties to make a manifesto pledge not to allow the UK’s population to exceed 70 million.
Former minister Frank Field is among those arguing current immigration rates, unless restricted, will impact on public services and quality of life.
The Balanced Migration Group said the BNP [...]
UK Food security
Plans to boost food production in Britain and reduce its impact on the environment have been unveiled.
The government’s 20-year food strategy includes making land available for people to grow their own food and more healthy cooking courses.
Minister Hilary Benn said shoppers had led the push for free-range eggs and could do the same for sustainable [...]
Invasive species threaten US biodiversity
As 2010, the UN’s International Year of Biodiversity, gets underway, a fight against some of the most damaging invasive species in US waterways is heating up.
The UN says some experts put the rate at which species are disappearing at 1,000 times the natural rate, and invasive species – which consume the food or habitat of [...]
Will China ease its one-child policy?
It might seem an innocuous move to outsiders but in China it was a game-changer. Authorities in Shanghai began encouraging newly married couples in the city to have two children.
Critics say Beijing should ease its one-child policy for demographic reasons. The rationale: Under China’s vaunted one-child policy – a cornerstone of economic and social planning [...]
India: Family planning vital
Effective birth control measures are essential to control growth of population in the country. Intra-uterine contraceptive device 380-A (IUD) is safe and effective temporary family planning device, said S. Ilango, Director of Public Health.
He was inaugurating a dissemination workshop on IUD for gynaecologists and health staff, doctors in government hospitals and primary health centres held [...]
Battle will be stepped up this year to save the tiger
Scientists and conservationists are to intensify their efforts this year to save one of Earth’s most powerful, and threatened, creatures: the tiger.
Biologists have placed Panthera tigris at the top of a list of 10 key animals facing extinction, which should become the focus for major conservation efforts in 2010, they say.
“This year has been designated [...]
Record population growth for Sweden
Increased immigration and higher birth rates, coupled with markedly reduced emigration and lower death rates, have contributed to the highest population growth seen in Sweden since 1946.
The latest figures released by Statistics Sweden estimate that, as at 1st January 2010, the population of Sweden will be 9.34 million on the back of 2009’s record growth, [...]
Pope urges lifestyle changes to save environment
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict used his traditional New Year address on Friday to call on people to change their lifestyles to save the planet, saying environmental responsibility was essential for global peace.
Recalling that world leaders had gathered in Copenhagen last month for the U.N. climate conference, [...]