All posts tagged "fertility rate"
-
1.8KAnalysisDiscredited ‘Population Bomb’ author predicts overpopulation doom despite evidence to the contrary
In his 1968 book, “The Population Bomb,” Dr. Paul Ehrlich made a number of doomsday predictions, but has a poor batting average at...
-
1.4KInternationalPortugal, facing ‘double demographic aging,’ pushes hard to legalize euthanasia
On Thursday, June 9, the Portuguese parliament voted for the third time to approve legislation allowing both euthanasia and assisted suicide. Four...
-
1.7KAnalysisGrowing body of experts insists falling birth rate, not overpopulation, is a looming threat
Ever since Paul Ehrlich’s needlessly alarmist 1968 book “The Population Bomb“ triggered a worldwide panic over alleged global overpopulation, individuals, organizations, and...
-
2.7KInternationalPoland prepares initiative to encourage couples to have more children
Poland is facing a fertility rate crisis, and like other European nations facing the same dilemma, the government is developing a strategy...
-
1.4KInternationalIndian state criticized for considering coercive population control policy ‘like the China model’
Shortly ahead of the upcoming elections and as part of an ongoing national conversation about population control, India’s most heavily populated state,...
