For women to have children by choice rather than chance and to plan their family size and spacing is a matter of autonomy and dignity. Two hundred and twenty-five million women in lower-income countries say they want the ability to choose whether and when to become pregnant, but lack the necessary access to contraception – […]
By Dennis Meadows, co-author of Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update. It has been adapted for the web. Forty-eight years ago I led an 18-month study at MIT on the causes and consequences of growth in population and material production on the planet earth through the year 2100. “If the present growth trends … continue […]
IUD program leads to big decline in teen pregnancies, abortions in Colorado. State avoided spending nearly $70 million to care for babies of low-income teens, study says. The steep drop in teen pregnancies and abortions in Colorado since 2009 is mainly due to one thing: free, low-cost access to IUDs. Intrauterine devices — tiny, T-shaped […]
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 […]
Why so many epidemics originate in Asia and Africa – and why we can expect more. On Feb. 18, 2020, in Seoul, South Korea, people wearing face masks pass an electric screen warning about COVID-19. AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon The coronavirus disease, known as COVID-19, is a frightening reminder of the imminent global threat posed by […]
Population Connection Launches Project Highlighting the Effects of Population Growth on Climate Change As the United States’ leading grassroots organization seeking to stabilize global population through education about population challenges and advocacy supporting U.S. investment in voluntary domestic and international family planning programs, Population Connection will launch a project aimed at illuminating the link between […]
(Ecological Overshoot Day: live as you wish to, just help those who lack contraceptives!) 1. You have suerely heard it a lot to consume less, because the Earth is overburdened. Well, who thinks that the overshoot is caused by too high individual consumption (and refers to Overshoot Day as „overconsumption day” for this reason), doesn’t […]
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 […]
(The playful panda BOCS corrects WWF) If everyone would truly live like the Hungarians, then humanity would have already came out of the ecological crisis. If everyone on the planet lived like the average Hungarian, which also means that the human population would have changed like it has in Hungary, then we would require less […]