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  • Reports That the U.S. Birth Rate in 2011 Was the Lowest in History Are, Well, Wrong

    Updated: 2012-11-30 14:55:28
    You may benefit from clarification on the differences between crude birth rate, general fertility rate and total fertility rate. Carl Haub’s recent blog will accomplish this. Reports That the U.S. Birth Rate in 2011 Was the Lowest in History Are, Well, Wrong See: http://prbblog.org/index.php/2012/11/28/reports-that-the-u-s-birth-rate-in-2011-was-the-lowest-in-history-are-well-wrong/ (November 2012) Several newspapers, blogs, and websites have proclaimed that the [...]

  • CNN: “Immigrants lead plunge in U.S. birth rate”

    Updated: 2012-11-30 14:51:59
    Congratulations to Bob Walker, president of Population Institute, for being quoted in the story below — a CNN report filed yesterday, Nov. 29th, 2012. Immigrants lead plunge in U.S. birth rate By Moni Basu, CNN See: http://inamerica.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/29/immigrants-lead-plunge-in-u-s-birth-rate/?hpt=us_c2 (CNN) – It makes sense that since the start of the recession, the birth rate in America has [...]

  • US birth rate records a low; Annual births remain elevated near 4 million

    Updated: 2012-11-30 14:48:30
    The Pew Research Center recently announced that the U.S. birth rate fell to its lowest level since at least 1920, when reliable record-keeping began. I have included two such stories below. Specifically, the report indicated that the general fertility rate for 2011 is 63.2 per 1,000 women of child-bearing age. (It peaked in 1957 during the [...]

  • Edinburgh population to soar Population Matters

    Updated: 2012-11-30 06:50:28
    Skip to navigation Skip to content Population Matters For a sustainable future Español Français Deutsch Dansk Nederlands Polski Edinburgh population to soar November 30th 2012 Edinburgh is facing a population explosion over the next 20 years , with authorities warning housing and public services will be placed under immense strain as the city swells to an incredible 600,000 . people A report produced by Edinburgh City Council has projected the Capital will have the highest population growth of anywhere in Scotland , hitting the projected residents’ total by 2033. Births are expected to outpace deaths by an average of 900 a year from 2010 to 2025, combining with annual migration of 4200 people to Edinburgh . The two factors are expected to fuel a population boom far higher than originally

  • Tackle immigration to solve housing shortage’ says MP Population Matters

    Updated: 2012-11-29 22:14:28
    Skip to navigation Skip to content Population Matters For a sustainable future Español Français Deutsch Dansk Nederlands Polski Tackle immigration to solve housing shortage’ says MP November 29th 2012 Tackling immigration , not more countryside building , could be the key to dealing with a widespread housing shortage , according to Isle of Wight MP Andrew . Turner He made the claim after planning minister Nick Boles MP said more areas of the countryside should be opened up for development to tackle a housing shortage in . England In an interview for the BBC programme Newsnight , due to be screened last night Wednesday Mr Boles said that an increase of two to three per cent of developed land would be enough to solve the . problem But Mr Turner has criticised Mr Bole’s approach and

  • UK needs more housing says planning minister Population Matters

    Updated: 2012-11-29 22:14:27
    Skip to navigation Skip to content Population Matters For a sustainable future Español Français Deutsch Dansk Nederlands Polski UK needs more housing says minister November 29th 2012 A third more of the country needs to be developed and a halt has to be made to the construction of pig ugly” modern housing , the planning minister , Nick Boles , has warned . The remarks will alarm defenders of the British countryside , but Boles insists this expansion is quite possible without building on protected greenbelt . land Housing has now been identified across the government as possibly the single quickest route to boosting growth , as well as one of the greatest failures in policy for the past 20 . years The government has announced successive ideas to boost housebuilding , but many of them are

  • Links between climate change and population growth

    Updated: 2012-11-29 14:10:53
    Congratulations to John Seager, President of Population Connection, for the following Op-Ed, which has appeared in several iterations in various publications around the country. Especially interesting here is that Mr. Seager gets into the informational and cultural barriers of access to contraception (as opposed to just lack of availability/supply): “They include misinformation about side effects [...]

  • Land transformation by humans: A review

    Updated: 2012-11-28 15:38:11
    Below is a scholarly article recently published as the featured science article in the magazine of the Geological Society of America, GSA Today. Near their conclusion, the authors state “Reducing demand is a critical component of the solution, but in itself is not sufficient, given the magnitude of the problem. Technological progress, particularly in the [...]

  • Cities expand into the Amazon Population Matters

    Updated: 2012-11-27 20:44:36
    Skip to navigation Skip to content Population Matters For a sustainable future Español Français Deutsch Dansk Nederlands Polski Cities expand into the Amazon November 27th 2012 The Amazon has been viewed for ages as a vast quilt of rain forest interspersed by remote river outposts . But the surging population growth of cities in the jungle is turning that rural vision on its head and alarming scientists , as an array of new industrial projects transforms the Amazon into Brazil’s fastest-growing . region The torrid expansion of rain forest cities is visible in places like Parauapebas , which has changed in a generation from an obscure frontier settlement with gold miners and gunfights to a sprawling urban area with an air-conditioned shopping mall , gated communities and a dealership

  • What Starts Here… Accelerates Destruction?

    Updated: 2012-11-27 15:19:40
    The essay below was penned by a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Robert Jensen, and appeared in the Austin Post on Nov. 15th. Jensen is a professor in the UT School of Journalism and board member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center in Austin. He is the author of “Arguing for [...]

  • Petition the Whitehouse: Stabilize US Population at or Below 333 Million

    Updated: 2012-11-26 15:01:15
    You may be interested in the following petition created and sent along by Mark Powell, which calls on the U.S. administration to stabilize U.S. population. We petition the Obama administration to: Protect our future by setting a goal of stabilizing the U.S. population at or below one-third of a billion people. Demographers expect the U.S.population [...]

  • International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

    Updated: 2012-11-26 14:56:48
    Below are remarks by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon about the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Following them is a news story filed by the Kuwait News Agency, which  reports on a sobering speech given by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, in which she includes remarks on the story [...]

  • Billions in Subsidies Prop Up Unsustainable Overfishing

    Updated: 2012-11-26 14:53:05
    Billions in Subsidies Prop Up Unsustainable Overfishing See: http://www.nationofchange.org/billions-subsidies-prop-unsustainable-overfishing-1352472312 Calls are mounting for the world’s big fishing powers to stop subsidizing international fleets that use destructive methods like bottom trawling in foreign coastal waters, drastically reducing the catch of local artisanal fishers who use nets and fishing lines. Such subsidies total 27 billion dollars a [...]

  • Taking Stock: World Fish Catch Falls to 90 Million Tons in 2012

    Updated: 2012-11-26 14:50:13
    Taking Stock: World Fish Catch Falls to 90 Million Tons in 2012 November 19, 2012, J. Matthew Roney See: http://www.earth-policy.org/indicators/C55/fish_catch_2012 The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) projects that the world’s wild fish harvest will fall to 90 million tons in 2012, down 2 percent from 2011. This is close to 4 percent below the [...]

  • PM submissions on Sustainable Development Goals Population Matters

    Updated: 2012-11-12 13:40:29
    Skip to navigation Skip to content Population Matters For a sustainable future Español Français Deutsch Dansk Nederlands Polski PM submissions on SDGs October 1st 2012 Population Matters is arguing that progress on population underpins progress on all the proposed Sustainable Development Goals , the proposed successors to the Millennium Development . Goals Two recent submissions we have made are to the European Commission and to the International Development Committee of the UK . Parliament Submission to the European Commission Submission to the International Development . Committee Print PDF Related : posts PM submissions on UK population growth Population Matters contributes to UK Planning and Biodiversity Inquiry Lords committee calls for statutory SRE Sustainable development needs a

  • Our sustainable development goals Population Matters

    Updated: 2012-11-09 20:50:40
    Skip to navigation Skip to content Population Matters For a sustainable future Español Français Deutsch Dansk Nederlands Polski Population Matters consults on SDGs November 5th 2012 Tags : Family planning and reproductive health Population info and analysis Poverty Resources We have developed some of the sustainable development goals that we would like to see . They are listed here If you have any comments , write to us at enquiries populationmatters.org Print PDF Related : posts OPT changes name to Population Matters PM submissions on SDGs 7 Billion Day Population Matters Takes Action Population Matters condemns coercive sterilisation Population Matters Update Mar 2011 Monthly eUpdate Forthcoming events First Sexual and Reproductive Health Conference Melbourne , Australia 20 November 2012

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