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  • Ban Nudity! Ban Nightlife!

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  • ‘The Businessman Panicked’

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  • Why population matters Population Matters

    Updated: 2012-03-31 01:15:45
    Skip to navigation Skip to content Population Matters For a sustainable future Why population matters Home About Why population matters Today’s problems are increasingly pressing . The scale and pace of biodiversity loss climate change resource depletion and population density should be a matter of grave concern for us all . Those who think humanity will continue to prosper on the basis of ever more industrialisation or prospective technologies are gambling with the prospects of future generations and neglecting the rights of other species . We all love our children . We want them to grow up loved , healthy , well-nourished and well educated in a safe and pleasant environment . Today only a small proportion grows up in such circumstances . Looking ahead , climate change and resource over

  • Mulat Pinoy brings population and development awareness to youth in Philippines

    Updated: 2012-03-30 14:54:06
    Below is a press release sent by Regina Layug Rosero, a project coordinator for Mulat Pinoy, a social media initiative for Filipino youth that focuses on population and development issues in the Philippines and is on the front lines building support for the RH Bill. You can read more about Mulat Pinoy here: http://www.mulatpinoy.ph/about-us/ Mulat Pinoy [...]

  • Condom Queues Incite Church Tensions in Philippines

    Updated: 2012-03-30 14:51:33
    Below is a Bloomberg article reporting on the seemingly interminable struggle to pass a Reproductive Health and Rights Bill in that country, where for 14 years the Catholic Church has vigorously led the opposition to passage. See: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-27/condom-queues-incite-church-tensions-in-philippines.html Condom Queues Incite Church Tensions in Philippines By Natasha Khan and Norman P. Aquino – Mar 27, [...]

  • Mother film showing London 24 April Population Matters

    Updated: 2012-03-30 12:40:41
    Skip to navigation Skip to content Population Matters For a sustainable future Mother film showing London 24 April March 30th 2012 Mother : Caring for 7 Billion Global Health Film Club Tuesday 24 April 2012 Venue : Royal Society of Medicine , 1 Wimpole Street , LONDON , W1G 0AE Mother , the film , brings to light an issue that silently fuels our most pressing environmental , humanitarian and social crises population growth . In 2011 the world population reached 7 billion , a startling seven-fold increase since the first billion occurred 200 years . ago Today , nearly 1 billion people still suffer from chronic hunger even though the Green Revolution that has fed billions will soon come to an end due to the diminishing availability of its main ingredients oil and water . Compounded with our

  • Nigeria 90 percent of women are not using contraception Population Matters

    Updated: 2012-03-30 12:40:41
    : Skip to navigation Skip to content Population Matters For a sustainable future Nigeria : 90 percent of women are not using contraception March 30th 2012 Tags : Family planning and reproductive health Nine out of 10 Nigerian women of childbearing age are not using modern contraceptive methods . This is one of the startling revelations at a stakeholders’ dissemination on the Universal Access to female Condom programme aimed at increasing demand and access to female condoms in . Nigeria Studies have shown that the country has a low contraceptive prevalence rate of 10 per cent as regards modern family method which has resulted to unplanned pregnancy and increased maternal mortality rates . Indeed , reports have shown that the incidence of HIV in Nigeria is also relatively high among West

  • UK greenhouse gas emissions down 7 in 2011 Population Matters

    Updated: 2012-03-30 12:40:40
    Skip to navigation Skip to content Population Matters For a sustainable future UK greenhouse gas emissions down 7 in 2011 March 30th 2012 Tags : Climate change and global warming Energy Fall mainly due to 2011 being fifth warmest on record , and rise in nuclear power usage after Sizewell reactor came back . online Last year’s mild winter helped UK greenhouse gas emissions fall 7 in 2011, as people used less gas to heat their homes , provisional figures published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change reveal . The fall follows a 3 rise in 2010, the first in almost a decade , which green groups called a wake-up call’ that showed government policies weren’t cutting emissions fast enough to tackle climate change The fall in 2011 was in part due to it being the fifth warmest year on UK

  • Scientists call for practical steps to smooth humanity’s journey Population Matters

    Updated: 2012-03-30 12:40:39
    Skip to navigation Skip to content Population Matters For a sustainable future Scientists call for practical steps to smooth humanity’s journey March 30th 2012 Tags : Climate change and global warming Environment Planet Under Pressure , a four-day conference in London exploring how science can identify and limit risks in the face of increasing human impacts on the Earth , has ended with a call for ’urgent action’ against the the unrelenting buildup of greenhouse gases . But the prime focus , refreshingly , was on boosting science education and interdisciplinary inquiry and maintaining investments in systems and agencies devoted to comprehending environmental . change Particularly refreshing , in a session on convergent global megatrends , 8217 was Sir John Beddington , the science adviser

  • Sumatra Aceh forest’s last orangutans could vanish within months Population Matters

    Updated: 2012-03-30 12:40:38
    : Skip to navigation Skip to content Population Matters For a sustainable future Sumatra : Aceh forest’s last orangutans could vanish within months March 30th 2012 Tags : Ecosystems and biodiversity Land The last remaining orangutans in the Tripa peat forest in Aceh could be wiped out in a matter of months if the slash-and-burn destruction of their habitat continues unabated , activists . warn We’re no longer talking about a matter of years but of months ahead when there will be no more orangutans there if this continues , 8217 said Ian Singleton , conservation director at the Swiss-based PanEco Foundation , a partner of the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program . He was referring to roughly 200 Sumatran orangutans left in the Tripa peat forest in Nagan Raya district , which have found

  • When the world tackled an environmental threat and won Population Matters

    Updated: 2012-03-29 19:20:50
    , Skip to navigation Skip to content Population Matters For a sustainable future When the world tackled an environmental threat , and won March 29th 2012 Tags : Climate change and global warming Environment In 1974, Dr Sherwood Rowland , a young research scientist , warned the world that chlorofluorocarbons , man-made chemicals found in aerosol sprays and refrigerators , were damaging the earth’s ozone layer . It took 13 years of bitter debate among governments , business leaders , scientists and concerned citizens before the world accepted his findings and moved to ban these chemicals through an international treaty , the Montreal Protocol , in 1987. Dr . Rowland died this month at age 84. Many of the articles about his life have recounted the success of the Montreal Protocol and

  • New Midlands city on green belt land to cope with population growth

    Updated: 2012-03-29 14:18:31
    Below is a March 25th article, published in the on-line version of The Daily Mail. Herein you can see Prime Minister David Cameron quoted as saying, “We urgently need to find places where we’re prepared to allow significant new growth to happen.” See: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2120035/New-city-Midlands-rail-link-green-belt-land-cope-population-growth.html The opposition group also quoted in the story has a website, [...]

  • Planning pressure shows need for population planning Population Matters

    Updated: 2012-03-28 17:20:18
    Skip to navigation Skip to content Population Matters For a sustainable future Planning pressure shows need for population planning March 28th 2012 The controversy over the anounced changes to the planning framework is just one example of the difficult choices increasing forced upon the UK by an ever rising population in an already overcrowded island , itself just one example of the global problem of population growth . The UK government should urgently consider establishing a population council , as advocated by the Committee for the Economic Development of Australia , to address population growth and seek ways of reducing it and of mitigating its . impact England is Europe’s most densely populated large country , alongside Holland , and has one of the highest population densities of any

  • Thich Nhat Hanh: maybe in 100 years there will be no more humans on the planet

    Updated: 2012-03-28 14:16:28
    The Ecologist, whose reporting on population-related issues has historically been spotty, has interviewed the world famous Buddhist, Thich Nhat Hahn, who may have surprised them by noting that reducing consumption is both important, but not sufficient by itself, in meeting the ecological crisis. This is part one of a two part interview. To read the [...]

  • Planet Under Pressure Conference, Happening Now… Rio +20?

    Updated: 2012-03-27 14:08:29
    Two items follow. 1) You may be interested to learn of the Planet Under Pressure conference, currently taking place in London. Overall attendance is said to number more than 2,700 people. More information, copied from the conference website is below. There is a promise of live web-streaming of some of the select panels and presenters; [...]

  • Water-short world will need ‘more crop per drop’ – experts

    Updated: 2012-03-26 14:25:28
    Thanks to Steve Kurtz for forwarding me this article, which reports on global water security issues (World Water Day was Thursday, March 22). See: http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/water-short-world-will-need-more-crop-per-drop-experts Water-short world will need ‘more crop per drop’ – experts 21 Mar 2012 18:41 Source: alertnet // By Megan Rowling MARSEILLE, France (AlertNet) – Water must be used more efficiently [...]

  • Fun with Trends

    Updated: 2012-03-26 14:22:47
    I enjoyed this article on “trends” by Post Carbon Institute’s Richard Heinberg, which I found on the Peak Oil News and Message Boards. See: http://peakoil.com/generalideas/heinberg-fun-with-trends/ Heinberg: Fun with Trends If current population trends continue . . . The population of the United States will increase to over 600 million by 2080, and in 2150 it [...]

  • Birthrates Didn’t Doom Japan

    Updated: 2012-03-26 14:21:00
    I am very happy to distribute the following column, written by Froma Harrop. It is an excellent take on the situation in Japan. The Japanese population stabilization and (eventual) gradual decline have caused most pro-growth economists and other such cheerleaders to convulse in fear. As such, this is an especially nice read. See: http://www.theleafchronicle.com/article/20120323/COLUMNISTS100/303230009 COLUMN: [...]

  • How Much Will it Cost to Save Our Economy’s Foundation?

    Updated: 2012-03-23 14:54:15
    The Earth Policy Institute sent me this recent article by Lester Brown, which you may find interesting. It is adapted from Lester’s book, “World on the Edge”. The full book available online at www.earth-policy.org/books/wote. How Much Will it Cost to Save Our Economy’s Foundation? Lester R. Brown During the past two summers, Pakistan was hit [...]

  • UK to host family planning summit in July 2012 Population Matters

    Updated: 2012-03-20 02:22:27
    Skip to navigation Skip to content Population Matters For a sustainable future UK to host family planning summit in July 2012 March 19th 2012 The UK Government is working with the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation and partners to host a Family Planning summit in London in July 2012. The event will aim to generate unprecedented political commitment and resources from developing countries , donors , the private sector , civil society and other partners to meet the family planning needs of women in the world’s poorest countries by 2020. There are hundreds of millions of women in developing countries who want to delay or avoid a pregnancy but are not using an effective method of family planning . The UK Department for International Development’s priority for this year is to support national

  • Patrons Population Matters

    Updated: 2012-03-19 17:42:54
    Skip to navigation Skip to content Population Matters For a sustainable future Patrons Home About Our people Patrons Sir David Attenborough OM CH CVO CBE Naturalist , broadcaster and former controller of BBC . Two Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics , University of . Cambridge Professor Paul Ehrlich Bing Professor of Population Studies , Stanford . University Baroness Shreela Flather First Asian woman member of the House of Lords . crossbencher Dr . Jane Goodall DBE Founder , Jane Goodall Institute , and UN Messenger of . Peace Professor John Guillebaud Former Co-chair of Population Matters , Emeritus Professor of Family Planning and Reproductive Health , University College , London . Former Medical Director , Margaret Pyke Centre for Family . Planning Susan

  • David Attenborough talk on population Population Matters

    Updated: 2012-03-19 17:42:53
    Skip to navigation Skip to content Population Matters For a sustainable future David Attenborough talk on population Home David Attenborough talk on population Broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough presents the 2011 RSA President’s Lecture The dangers facing the earth’s ecosystems are well known and the subject of great concern at all levels . Climate change is high on the list . But there is an underlying and associated cause population growth Indeed , in Sir David Attenborough’s view , there is no major problem facing our planet that would not be easier to solve if there were fewer people and no problem that does not become harder and ultimately impossible to solve with ever more . And yet there seems to be a taboo on bringing the subject into the . open Chaired by His Royal

  • Sustainable technologies Population Matters

    Updated: 2012-03-19 17:42:51
    Skip to navigation Skip to content Population Matters For a sustainable future Sustainable technologies Home Solutions Sustainable technologies Although much progress has been made to improve sustainability in recent years , there are still many hurdles to be overcome . Efficient use of energy and other resources is usually advantageous as wasting less energy is typically cheaper than producing more . Unfortunately , environmentally friendly approaches can be more expensive . It is important that when more sustainable products and services are available people are encouraged to use them . Using resources more efficiently and developing more sustainable ways of doing things will continue to be . priorities Sustainable technology relies on resources that are either renewable or so abundant

  • Sustainable consumption Population Matters

    Updated: 2012-03-19 17:42:51
    Skip to navigation Skip to content Population Matters For a sustainable future Sustainable consumption Home Solutions Sustainable consumption Modern humans have been on earth for 200 centuries . True sustainability means providing every person now alive , as well as generations yet to come , with a reasonable standard of living which can be maintained into the foreseeable . future Today humanity uses the equivalent of 1.5 planets to provide the resources we use and absorb our waste . This means it now takes the Earth one year and five months to regenerate what we use in a . year Present lifestyles in the richer countries have a disproportionate impact , for example the ecological footprint per capita of the USA is more than ten times that of Malawi or . Mozambique As individuals , there

  • Sustainable population Population Matters

    Updated: 2012-03-19 17:42:50
    Skip to navigation Skip to content Population Matters For a sustainable future Sustainable population Home Solutions Sustainable population Population growth rates worldwide are declining but absolute numbers are still rising at one and a half million every week . Growth is also variable populations are declining in some countries while continuing to grow rapidly in . others Universal access to reproductive health services is one of the main factors that help to reduce birth rates and hence population . growth Improved infrastructure , available contraceptives and women’s empowerment including education and career opportunities , all contribute to lower and therefore more sustainable birth . rates Economic development also helps to lift women out of the high birth rate poverty . trap

  • Population growth underpinning record fuel prices Population Matters

    Updated: 2012-03-08 15:40:45
    Skip to navigation Skip to content Population Matters For a sustainable future Population growth is a key underlying factor underpinning record fuel prices March 8th 2012 Petrol prices in the UK have reached a record high just a few months after the world population hit the milestone of seven billion . people Simon Ross , chief executive of Population Matters , commented : The rising world population is fuelling demand for energy , including petroleum products . Other factors do contribute to the underlying growth in energy demand , such as world industrialisation and growing car use . There are short term political and distribution factors driving prices higher , too . Ultimately , though , humanity cannot prosper with an ever rising population , given that there are limited supplies of

  • Natural resources Population Matters

    Updated: 2012-03-05 21:50:30
    Skip to navigation Skip to content Population Matters For a sustainable future Natural resources Home Issues Natural resources Historically the size of human communities has depended on their ability to harness resources . Population growth was relatively slow until the 18th Century , when a step-change in agricultural productivity helped world population to rise dramatically . The industrial revolution initiated a huge increase in global trade while public health improved tremendously , both changes enabling population to increase . Later , in the mid 20th Century , increased agricultural productivity achieved through the Green Revolution allowed population numbers to double between 1950 and 1990. Nevertheless , our dependence on natural resources remains absolute . Numbers are now

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