July 11, 2023
Overpopulation and the End Times: the Silence Continues
Today is WORLD POPULATION DAY. I can absolutely guarantee it will be ignored by every single environmental and development organisation here in the UK – and by the Green Party.…
November 6, 2022
Pity the Eight Billionth Child on Planet Earth
I hope you’ve got Tuesday November 15th marked up in your diary? According to the UN’s population wonks, that’s the day when the eight billionth human being will be born. Not sure…
July 6, 2022
Revisiting the Population Debate: You Know You Want To!
It’s World Population Day on July 11th. Here’s some relevant stuff to get us going: 1. Half of all pregnancies today are unintended – and the number of women affected by this…
December 13, 2018
WWF Failing the Natural World in Ignoring Today’s Overpopulation Crisis
I’ve just taken on the role of President of Population Matters. Population Matters has been the go-to population organisation in the UK since 1991. Like all small, underfunded…
April 16, 2015
Looking After Mother
Time for another loud bang on the population drum – to celebrate the arrival of a new and excellent film with the simple title, ‘Mother’. It lasts just over an hour. For You…
February 27, 2015
Pope’s Words the Height of Irresponsibility
Pity poor old Ryan MacDonald, a 21-year-old Masters student from Derby. On hearing that he’d been selected as one of five Brits to go through to the next stage of selecting the…
September 12, 2014
Population: Passing on the Baton
I’ve been tracking the population debate for the best part of 40 years. So how come I’d never heard of Professor Albert Bartlett before? Al Bartlett died last year, at the age of…
July 14, 2014
World Population Day: So What?
It was World Population Day on Friday. I don’t know why 11th July was been chosen as World Population Day, but given that we can’t really have World Population Day every day for…