Population
11. 07. 2011
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It’s World Population Day. Yet ironically, while thousands of people will be making generous donations to famine relief in the Horn of Africa, very few will give so much as a passing thought to population.
This is not an either/or job. Of course we have to respond to the...
28. 02. 2011
For those of you who care about population issues, here’s a small thing you can do right now. Sign up to the Population Institute’s “Million for a Billion” campaign petition on www.millionforabillion.com.
Its aim couldn’t be simpler: recruit a million people to help persuade...
06. 10. 2009
Under attack, yet again, from George Monbiot in The Guardian (September 28th) for continuing to campaign on population issues. Yes, well …….
On 27th January 1979, George Monbiot was celebrating his 16th birthday. I’m sure he was having lots of fun, in a precociously environment...
04. 03. 2009
I’ve always felt that logic and sound evidence provide a pretty solid foundation for good policy-making. But some issues are more amenable to logic than others, and population is clearly the least amenable of all.
I’m in the population doghouse yet again. On 1st February the...
30. 01. 2009
Earlier this month, The Guardian published an extraordinary article about Carl Djerassi, commenting on an article he himself had written about population issues in Austria and elsewhere – claiming, amongst other things, that Djerassi had blamed the Pill (of which he was one of...