The rapid population growth in the world, especially in the Global South, is haunted by Reverend Robert Malthus' Ghost, who pioneered the modern population control mechanism in the 18th century.…
Governments worldwide are in a race to see which one can encourage the most women to have the most babies. Hungary is slashing income tax for women with four or…
by Dr.Ernst Schriefl, Saral Sarkar and Dr.Bruno Kern Introduction We are three authors, public speakers and political activists, who have been publishing and campaigning in the fields of ecology, economy…
Around the world, diverse initiatives are being introduced to manage population changes. In early 2023, India surpassed China as the most populous country in the world with the latter having…
The Wall Street Journal called China’s slowdown “disappointing.” But for the environment, it is welcome news. On January 17, 2023, China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced that the country’s population fell…
In all of the news surrounding Vladimir Putin, it might have been easy to overlook that he had recently revived a Soviet-era policy called the “Mother Heroine” award, which goes to…
Tomorrow, November 15, 2022, is predicted to be the day that the global population reaches eight billion. The projection is revealed in the UN’s World Population Prospects 2022 report, which…
It’s time to rethink our broken and unfair family planning systems. July 11 was World Population Day, an observance established by the United Nations aiming to highlight population issues, particularly how…
The current world population of 7.6 billion is expected to reach 8.6 billion in 2030, 9.8 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion in 2100, according to a new United Nations…
We will soon be 8 billion on Planet Earth. Is this good news or bad, happy or sad? Well, the answer is not such a simplistic one, it is more…
The second phase of data collected by National Family Health Survey-5 (2019—21) was released on November 24, 2021. The survey was conducted in two phases due to the COVID-19 pandemic.…
With the proposal of population control measures by Uttar Pradesh government prior to just six months ahead of state assembly election of 2022, a huge controversy is being erupted. Population…
Homo sapiens is a creature of earth, not separate from the natural world. Just as it is for other species within the web of life of earth, food is a…
ABSTRACT Today no one is talking of controlling population any more. Fertility rates are falling all over the world and many governments are encouraging births; giving monetary support and withdrawing…
This is a condensed and modified version of a paper of mine that appeared on "The Journal of Population and Sustainability" this year. The image above is the well…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke6UoG8WKU0 I keep reading more and more comments about overpopulation on the social media. It is not just an impression: the trend of increasing interest in population matters is visible…
Co-Written by Sally Dugman and Steve Salmony Steve Salmony thinks: The number of human beings on Earth was 2+ billion in the year of my birth (1945). In all of…
One voice from the wilderness is too weak to be listened to. My voice, for example, is not clear enough, strong enough, loud enough or adequately established so as to…
Introduction Recently, an international assembly of scientists from 184 countries endorsed an article published in the journal Bioscience entitled “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice”. As the warning states, “We…
I thank Fowler and Hobbs for their letter (2004) and their research (2003). The view that a complexity of factors impacts human population growth certainly makes sense, and they have…
I met a woman around ten years ago, who told me that she would continue to have children (concerning which she already had five) since she has no intention to…
Everywhere along the shores of Planet Earth, endless development and the pressures of over-population continue to escalate a pitched battle among the people: It’s the Nimby’s versus the Yimby’s. So…
For starters, I needed housing during my stay for a week to visit my daughter in PA from my home in MA, USA while she carried out her undergraduate education…
The Guardian,UK. had a suggestion for the battle against climate change"Want to fight climate change.Have fewer children ." This was known already & yet, since this has been extensively researched…
A debate between father and son T.R. Malthus' “Essay on The Principle of Population”, the first edition of which was published in 1798, was one of the the…
Of the issues which are totally ignored, for all practical purposes, there's one that we can spotlight here which -- if not addressed post haste -- stands to take us…
To survive and live well we must reduce our population back to 2 billion as it was 80 years ago. Why did we allow our world population to keep growing…
At the time of Jesus' birth, the earth's entire population was just 300 million, smaller than the U.S. by itself today. About 45 million of those people, including Jesus himself, lived in…
There was a small news item in the Times of India dated 3rd July, 2016.It related to Bhopal .It read , " 3 peons breach MPs-2 child norm ,sacked." It stated that…
We must assess the consequences of our lifestyle on the planet’s declining liveability, as we already have a rising chemical imbalance in the biosphere which impairs life’s ability to control…
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