Should we get a heat stroke or starve instead? Climate disaster or carbon neutrality? For a quarter of a century now, Gyula I. Simonyi, president of the BOCS Civilization Planning Foundation, has been giving lectures under this title. If we use fossil energy, we will get fried, if we don’t, we will starve. What is […]
Live as you like, just help those who need contraception! Napoleon‘s army of a million men advanced victoriously towards Moscow. (A little history to repeat: the Russians kept retreating and evacuating, Napoleon waited in vain in empty Moscow for them to come and ask for peace and pay tribute, and was finally forced to go […]
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 […]
There is a serious question – which is rarely discussed in the public discourse – how much extent religion by pushing reproduction is responsible for epidemics. Is this not in fact the sin itself? Religions usually serve the interests of the various empires by forcing reproduction: they need lots of cheap slaves, proletarians, serfs, workers, […]
IPCC demographic fantasies The IPCC’s latest report shows how quickly the population explosion would have to stop for the only hope in a climate emergency, the blue SSP1 scenario. In fact, this fertility decline should have been going on for a decade and Africa should have reached 3.2 by 2020 instead of the actual 4.3. […]
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 […]