All posts tagged "overpopulation"
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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...
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1.6KIssuesPopulation groups ignore plummeting fertility rates, want ‘fewer people’ in developing nations
On July 11, World Population Day, the United Nations (UN) issued its latest World Population Prospects report, predicting a global population peak...
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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...
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1.2KAnalysisWill overpopulation fears lead people to seek out ‘virtual children’?
The overpopulation myth has continued to spread, as people worry that climate change and human reproduction will destroy the planet. More and...
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5.3KIssues‘Stop Having Kids’ movement spreads across the US, calling for an end to human reproduction
A Portland-based organization urging people not to have children has gone national. Stop Having Kids gained local notoriety with billboards erected in...
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No, economic factors aren’t the main cause of falling US birth rates
A recently-published paper in the Journal of Economic Perspectives pushes back against the common claim that economic factors — like the cost of child...
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1.4KInternationalUK House of Lords member: People with large families should get vasectomies to save the planet
During a recent discussion about population control, a UK House of Lords member seemed to suggest that people with large families — including...
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1.6KAnalysisClimate change fear is keeping people from having children… but should it?
A recent New York Times article, in a rather callous manner, posed a controversial question: to breed, or not to breed? In...
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3.9KAnalysisPrince William claims Africa’s ‘human population presents a huge challenge’
Prince William has spoken out about the loss of wildlife in Africa, blaming the human population of the continent and stating that...
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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,...
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3.1K43InternationalRemembering John Lennon as Hillary Clinton tells the UN abortion is the answer to everything
For International Women’s Day, Hillary Clinton recently spoke at the UN calling for a right to abortion and making development money contingent...
