The message of the BOCS was already clearly seen in the 1980 TAB (Reflections on Wage Labour, other title Economy of LifeHarmony) study, which argued that the economy is often damaging – but that it does not address the most important needs. Hence, work is often unnecessary, even harmful, immoral – but valuable work is […]
Urge the COP28 to support just and sustainable family planning to ensure an equitable and safe future. Helping those millions with unmet need of Human Right of Contraception (UN, 1968) helps to avoid unintended pregnancies, i.e. avoid significant CO2e emissions. This very effective climate protection can be measured e.g. by the Quality Family […]
It is a huge breakthrough that before COP26, many NGOs and scientists joined forces to demand that the most effective climate protection, family planning, is finally put on the agenda of climate conferences. It is a historic crime against future children that hundreds of millions are deprived of the human right, knowledge and means of […]
The Sierra Club, one of America’s largest non-profit environmental organizations, once treated the effects of immigration-driven population growth as among the most serious concerns facing America’s environment. However, over the past few decades, the organization has continually retreated from that position toward neutrality — and more recently has openly lobbied for higher levels of immigration […]
If population is taboo then all ecological calculations are flawed. If everyone would really live like the average EU citizen, then humanity would be in a much better ecological situation. If every human on Earth lived like the Europeans, and world population changed according to European conditions since the beginning of ecological footprint calculations, then […]