Preface. This post summarizes the 20 top reasons why population growth was abandoned the past 40 years. A deeper understanding can be found in the excellent Beck & Kolankiewicz (2000) “The Environmental Movement’s Retreat from Advocating U.S. Population Stabilization” and Weisman’s “Countdown: Our last, Best hope for a future on Earth?” For many years I […]
A comparison between Thailand and the Philippines. Being a poor Catholic is tragic. The horrendous social and ecological and climate-changing devastation of the Vatican’s contraception ban can be seen in a comparison between successful Buddhist Thailand and the failed Catholic Philippines. Thailand’s per capita land area fell by 40% from 1960 to 1990 (from 1.7 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]