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Shrinkage	David Roberts	10 Feb 2005	Gristmill
A couple weeks ago, Chip worried about worries about shrinking populations. Specifically, he worried that countries with shrinking populations -- or in China's case, shrinking proportions of males to females -- will try to stimulate procreation (hey, get your mind out of the gutter), which makes an enviro's spidey-sense tingle. He wished that someone would make the argument that a declining population is not necessarily a bad thing, economically speaking. Today in the ...
Topics: population (all these topics)

They're Not Kidding Anxious over declining population, Italy pays citizens to procreate		09 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
They're Not Kidding Anxious over declining population, Italy pays citizens to procreate While many environmentalists fret about overpopulation, Italians are fretting over the opposite. Despite the stereotype of its massive Catholic clans, Italy actually has one of the lowest birthrates in the world, a population set to shrink by a third by 2050, and the world's highest percentage of population aged 65 or older (18.6 percent in 2003). Th ...
Topics: Italy, population (all these topics)

The depopulation bomb, or, 40 million guys with no one to date	Chip Giller	02 Feb 2005	Gristmill
Not sure if anyone else noted this story in The New York Times early this week: 'Fearing Future, China Starts to Give Girls Their Due.' The piece says the powers that be in China just might be considering a shift from the controversial one-child policy (enacted in the 1970s to help control population growth) to a two-child policy. Why? Well, for one, there's a grave shortage of girls in the country, due to selective abortion (or worse):In early January, the government an ...
Topics: China, France, population (all these topics)

New low for global birth rate	Lisa Hymas	02 Feb 2005	Gristmill
Our friends who like to butt heads over population might be interested to know that the global birth rate has fallen to its lowest point. The average woman in a developing country now gives birth 3.9 times over the course of her lifetime, compared with 5.9 in the 1970s, according to the U.N. That's not down to the replacement level of 2.1, of course, but consider it in conjunction with the far-below-replacement levels in some (over)developed countries like Spain (1.15), ...
Topics: population (all these topics)

Developing Nations Do It Faster Population to Grow Rapidly in Developing Countries		18 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Read more about: population Developing Nations Do It Faster Population to Grow Rapidly in Developing Countries The world population is expected to balloon from 6.3 billion to 9.3 billion by 2050, and nearly 99 percent of the growth will take place in developing countries, according to comprehensive new population projections released yesterday by the Population Reference Bureau. Industrialized countries like Japan and most countries in Europe are expected to lose population -- the one exception ...
Topics: population (all these topics)

Supersize America Does it make sense for environmentalists to want to limit immigration?	Bill McKibben	01 Mar 2004	Soapbox
The Sierra Club, most venerable of environmental organizations, is awash in charges, countercharges, suits, countersuits, invective, counter-invective, and double counter-invective bounces-off-me-and-sticks-to-you. At issue, depending on whom you talk to, is whether single-issue racists will take over the organization's board or whether club democracy will be squelched by blatant ...
Topics: green living, population, United States (all these topics)

Que Sierra, Sierra Immigration controversy engulfs Sierra Club board election	Michelle Nijhuis	01 Mar 2004	Main Dish
If the Democratic primaries have proven a little prim and polite for your taste, there's another upcoming election that may pique your interest. This one is loaded with bitter controversy, nasty accusations, and emotional appeals to democracy and fairness. Its major players have even taken their grievances to court -- all before the nearly three-quarters of a million potential voters hav ...
Topics: politics, population, Sierra Club, United States (all these topics)

Que Sierra, Sierra Immigration Quarrel Tangles Up Sierra Club Board Election		01 Mar 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: population, Sierra Club (all these topics)

Supersize America Bill McKibben Weighs in on the Immigration Question		01 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
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Topics: population (all these topics)

Sore Like an Eagle		02 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Sore Like an Eagle The greatest threat to the bald eagle is no longer pesticides, but development and suburban sprawl, say environmental scientists. The bald eagle has starred in one of the most successful species-restoration stories in U.S. history; thanks to the banning of DDT in 1972 and the careful efforts of environmental advocates, the eagle has soared back from the brink of extinction. Still, b ...
Topics: Northeast, placemaking, population, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

A Breath of Somewhat Fresher Air Scientists Recommend Solutions to Coming Air-Quality Challenges		30 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
A Breath of Somewhat Fresher Air Scientists Recommend Solutions to Coming Air-Quality Challenges Though the past three decades have seen substantial progress, concerted action is needed to prevent air pollution from adversely affecting the environment and human health now and in the future, reported the National Research Council of the National Academies, a nonpartisan scientific panel charter ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, health, ozone, politics, population (all these topics)

Going on the Rails on a Crazy Train Study Find Trains Best Transportation Solution for California		27 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Going on the Rails on a Crazy Train Study Find Trains Best Transportation Solution for California Building a high-speed rail system that would connect California's major cities would be more cost-effective and less environmentally destructive than expanding the state's highways and airports, says a long-awaited government environmental study released today. The study -- which considered ways of l ...
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, placemaking, population (all these topics)

The Oil Hits the Fan Oil Pipeline Through Georgian Republic Runs Into Trouble		16 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
The Oil Hits the Fan Oil Pipeline Through Georgian Republic Runs Into Trouble A $3 billion, 1,000-mile pipeline -- slated to be pumping oil from the newly opened Caspian oilfields through Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey to the world market by April 2005 -- has run into a whole mess of trouble. Environmenta ...
Topics: Azerbaijan, business, energy, food and agriculture, Georgia, globalization, mining and drilling, population, renewable energy, Turkey, wildlife (all these topics)

Flu Dunnit Enviro Disruptions Will Cause More Animal Diseases to Jump to Humans		14 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Flu Dunnit Enviro Disruptions Will Cause More Animal Diseases to Jump to Humans In coming years, diseases -- primarily viruses -- passed from animals to human beings pose one of the principal threats to world health, warned a conference of scientists at the Royal Society in London yesterday. Environmental disruptions ranging from deforestation to population migration to global warming ...
Topics: climate, deforestation, health, population, United Kingdom, wildlife (all these topics)

Homeocidal Herbal Medicine Trade Threatens Thousands of Plant Species		09 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Homeocidal Herbal Medicine Trade Threatens Thousands of Plant Species The booming worldwide market for herbal medicines threatens between 8 and 20 percent of the 50,000 known wild medicinal plant species with extinction, according to a forthcoming study by the World Wildlife Fund. Having risen by10 percent per ...
Topics: Asia, China, climate, European Union, globalization, green living, health, India, North America, population, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Billions and Billions Observed World Population to Level Off at About 9 Billion, Says U.N.		09 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Billions and Billions Observed World Population to Level Off at About 9 Billion, Says U.N. Population growth is expected to slow dramatically over the coming decades, but the number of people on the planet is still likely to reach 8.9 billion by 2050, up from 6.3 billion today, according to a new U.N. report released yesterday. Granted, that's not the sort of runaway growth experienced during the 20th century, when the world's po ...
Topics: population, United Nations (all these topics)

The Sperminator A new injection for men could shake up the world of contraceptives	Audrey Schulman	13 Aug 2003	Main Dish
If you plan to have sex anytime soon, let's hope it's not in Niger, Africa. According to the nonprofit organization Save the Children, just 4 percent of couples in Niger have access to birth control. Although the situation in this West African country is extreme, more than 125 million couples worldwide -- most of them in developing countries -- cannot get contraceptives. Some of ...
Topics: business, India, Niger, population (all these topics)

The Sperminator New Injection for Men Could Shake Up World of Contraceptives		13 Aug 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: health, population (all these topics)

Hunger Strike		29 May 2003	Daily Grist
Hunger Strike The backlash has begun against President Bush's comment last week that a European Union ban on genetically modified (GM) foods is contributing to world hunger. The reality, critics say, is that the dispute over GM crops is an international agricultural battle with billion-dollar stakes, and that concern about famine in the developing world is a sideshow at best and a smokescreen ...
Topics: Africa, business, European Union, GMOs, politics, population (all these topics)

Double Trouble		27 May 2003	Daily Grist
Double Trouble The number of animal species in Brazil known to be endangered has nearly doubled since 1989, reaching 398, according to a three-year study conducted by the Brazilian government and released last week. Tropical wolves, rare parrots, and exotic frogs and turtles are among the many threatened creatures. The comprehensive survey of animal and plant life in the country found that natural habitats were i ...
Topics: Brazil, population, rainforests, wildlife (all these topics)

Crop Dustup		22 May 2003	Daily Grist
Crop Dustup Speaking before the United States Coast Guard Academy yesterday, President Bush accused the European Union of undermining efforts to end widespread hunger in Africa by banning genetically modified (GM) food. Bush praised "high-yield bio-crops" as key to increasing productivity and ameliorating hunger in developing nations, and claimed the E.U. ban was based on "unfounde ...
Topics: European Union, GMOs, politics, population, United States (all these topics)

A Great Grandma An Aboriginal elder battles construction of a radioactive-waste dump in Australia	Michelle Nijhuis	16 Apr 2003	Main Dish
In the 1950s and '60s, the British military conducted a dozen full-scale nuclear tests in the desert of southern Australia. To the military, the region was a wasteland, the best possible place for such a project; to the Aboriginal people who had lived in the desert for millennia, the land was their home. Eileen Kampakuta Brown and Eileen Wani Wingfield. Photo: Robert ...
Topics: Australia, interview, nuclear power, population (all these topics)

Older Europe		28 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Older Europe Population growth in Europe is slowing down -- so much so that the absolute number of people on the continent could begin to decline in the near future, according to an article published in the current issue of the journal Science. The report authors say the turning point came in 2000, when the number of children born in Europe guaranteed that there would be fewer parents in the next generation than in the current on ...
Topics: European Union, population (all these topics)

Little Bundle of Consumption On having kids	Umbra Fisk	12 Mar 2003	Ask Umbra
Dear Wonderful Umbra, I truly love your column. You should give humor lessons to the rest of the Grist staff. My question concerns the environmental consequences of the decision to reproduce or not to reproduce. Your answer to Genevieve pointed out that the two biggest actions we can take to support a healthy environment relate to transportation and housing. Why do you not consider reproduction the biggest action we take that ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, parenting, population (all these topics)

The Hunger! The Hunger!		20 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
The Hunger! The Hunger! The world's population is growing, yet world hunger is on the wane -- a testament to the success of agriculture. But with the global population expected to increase 50 percent by mid-century, many doubt whether our current food system can continue to provide. The problem isn't the ability to keep producing more food; the problem is the potentially serious ecol ...
Topics: food and agriculture, land degradation, pollution and waste, population (all these topics)

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