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Prince of Wales calls for population control in developing world
June 10th, 2010Calling for more birth control measures in the Third World, Prince Charles said more needs to be done because of the "monumental" problems that confront the environment as population numbers "rocket" and traditional societies become more consumerist. We need more "honesty" about the fact that "cultural" pressures keep the global birth rate high.
View full article here Report Broken LinkPop Growth is a Ponzi Scheme
March 4th, 2010"More is better", claim economists and politicians concerned - they say -with the challenge of aging populations and too slow GDP growth. Yet their simplistic "Ponzi Scheme" type arguments are no better than those of snake oil salesmen, offering more $$ for some by continuously adding more people to a finite Planet Earth in a demographic pyramid scheme that is pure folly.
View full article here Report Broken LinkChimpanzees & Population: Jane Goodall
March 24th, 2010Visiting Ottawa, renowned UK primatologist & conservationist Jane Goodall warns "It's our population growth that underlies just about every single one of the problems that we've inflicted on the planet". Question: Is Ottawa and are Cdns listening?
View full article here Report Broken LinkFamily Planning: USA shows the way
April 3rd, 2010Despite challenging economic times, Obama Admin is seeking US $715.7m approval (54% up from FY2008) to support international bilateral and UN multilateral family planning pgrms including significant funds to help prevent 54 million unintended pregnancies" and with emphasis on first births of women under 18.
At the G-8 meeting in Ottawa, and with apparent reference to Canada's sidestepping the issue, Foreign Secretary Clinton said: "You can't have maternal health without reproductive health and reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion".
Ethiopia: Population, Famine and Fate by Gwynne Dyer
September 5th, 2009A quarter-century after a million Ethiopians died in the great hunger of 1984-85, the country is heading into another famine. The spring rains failed entirely, and the summer rains were three weeks late. But why is famine is stalking Ethiopia again?
View full article here Report Broken LinkCNN speaks out on Population
January 8th, 2010CNN's Jack Cafferty discusses world population on the Cafferty File...
Watch Video Report Broken LinkCountdown to Meltdown: Food-water shortages + Climate-change-soil depletion + Pop increases = Failed States = Global instability (Scientific American)
May 29th, 2009Lester Brown, guru of the environmental movement, described in the Washington Post as "one of the world's most influential thinkers", sees food scarcity, brought on by water shortages, climate change and soil depletion, compounded by rapid population growth, as trends that may well threaten world order (Scientific American, May 2009).
View full article here Report Broken LinkYet another "inconvenient truth"... the population explosion, says Diane Francis, National Post.
December 3rd, 2009National Post's Diane Francis pens a hard-hitting reminder of the dire consequences of current unrestrained 1 million births worldwide every 4 days. Her draconian "fix": all countries must impose a Chinese type one child policy to reduce dramatically global pop growth; also mandatory conservation measures.
PIC's response:
Dear Diane:
On behalf of the Population Institute of Canada, thank you for your forthright, timely article on a highly emotive but critically important subject for the future of mankind and quality of the global environment in which we live. For many a taboo topic, population and its relentless growth, particularly in the developing world, is a root cause of poverty and typically is at the heart of conflicts over food, water, energy and other resources that dominate media headlines. Without population stabilization it is reasonable to assume that these conflicts will worsen. PIC (www.populationinstituteofcanada.ca), the national voice for Canadians concerned with the negative implications of population growth at home and abroad, invites readers of your article to help us address the educational challenge of consciousness raising - involving education, health care, female empowerment, and more - associated with this issue and to encourage the provision of non-coercive family planning programmes to those who need and desire and will most benefit from them. Google Us. Join Us. Make a difference.
Clifford Garrard
VP, PIC,
Ottawa
Slower population growth to help environment: UN study
December 3rd, 2009PARIS (AFP) – Braking the rise in Earth's population would be a major help in the fight against global warming, according to an unprecedented UN report published on Wednesday that draws a link between demographic pressure and climate change.
"Slower population growth... would help build social resilience to climate change's impacts and would contribute to a reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions in the future," the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) says.