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 […]
The following letter was sent in February 2019 to nearly 200 government representatives who can no longer claim to “not have the solution”. SUBJECT: Future of humanity 2019 Dear Representative Mr/Mrs, We are writing You with a clear goal, which is to secure the future of humanity. For this, we are asking three things of […]