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Tackling population rise would fight climate change 4
Posted 2 days, 9 hours ago 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 Wednesday that draws a link between demographic pressure and climate change.
By the numbers—data highlights on poverty and population 1
Posted 3 weeks, 1 day ago In Chapter 7 of the recently released Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, Lester Brown lays out the Plan B goals for eradicating poverty and stabilizing population.
trash crash

Throwing out the throwaway economy 0
Posted 3 months ago
The throwaway economy is on a collision course with the earth's geological limits.
all you can eat

Rethinking food production for a world of 8 billion 2
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
While hunger has been disappearing in China, it has been spreading throughout much of the developing world, notably sub-Saharan Africa and parts of the Indian subcontinent.
Give this Gaia break

Gaia proponent Lovelock says it’s time to adapt to inevitable global heating 6
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
What is it with Preeminent Thinkers and intensely bleak public lectures? On Monday night in Seattle, British scientist James Lovelock gave an prediction of the effects of climate change that was even more dire. Efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions are just fine, he said. They just won't amount to much.
Dispatch from Bonn: Population Action International

Population: Off the radar, not off the map 3
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
"The main driving forces of future greenhouse gas trajectories will continue to be demographic change, social and economic development, and the rate and direction of technological change," according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Special Report on Emissions Scenarios. Two of these drivers - development and technology - have been the focus of a great deal of discussion among the international community as they continue to work toward a new international climate change agreement in Bonn this week. The third, demographic change, has been conspicuously absent.
Dispatch from Bonn: Population Action International

Climate change is sexist 1
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
One of the under-reported issues about climate change is its dramatic affect on women. Women make up 70 percent of the world’s poorest people, and are more likely to die in weather-related natural disasters.
Dispatch from Bonn: Population Action International

First impressions from Bonn: climate change hurts the poor 0
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
At the opening of the international climate change talks in Bonn, Germany, on Monday, representatives of the industrialized world somewhat sheepishly offered up their countries’ meager progress in slowing the pace of their rampant growth in emissions, while representatives from the developing world did their best to sound the alarm.
Enfant Terrible?

Umbra advises on population 35
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
Stop reproducing and save the planet? If only it were that simple.
Dry Cycle

Population growth, climate change sparking water crisis: U.N. 0
Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago
Many political conflicts stem from undue population pressure on water and grasslands 12
Posted 9 months, 1 week ago
We must strive to meet the U.N.‘s low population projection of 8 billion by 2041 11
Posted 10 months ago
New book offers a prescription for 21st century suburbia 0
Posted 10 months, 1 week ago
Phoenix: What happens when a city built on growth begins to shrink? 3
Posted 10 months, 1 week ago
Newsweek considers an Obama baby boom 4
Posted 1 year ago
California group attempting to stoke anti-immigration sentiment among enviros 3
Posted 1 year ago
Population growth and climate: The E.U.-15 vs. the U.S. 4
Posted 1 year ago
New Scientist on how our economy is killing the earth 3
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago
When the Chimps Are Down

Cote d’Ivoire’s West African chimp population drops off dramatically 0
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago
Go For the Boobies, Stay ... No, Don't Stay

Overrun by humans, Galapagos Islands crack down 5
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago