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Pop Goes the World
Posted by alittle on December 15, 2005 - 4:00pm.
Grist explores population from its head down to its toes
Have population issues become the third rail of environmental activism? Curbing runaway growth in human numbers was once a key tenet in the green platform, but these days many eco-groups avoid this contentious topic like the plague. Today, Grist wades into touchy territory with a trio of pieces on the “P” word. Mike Wendling reports from Europe on growing worries over depopulation. David Nova, activist and head of a local Planned Parenthood network, chats about trekking 2,650 miles to raise awareness of population pressures and the need to empower women. And John Kurmann wonders whether he can be both a good global citizen and a dad.
New in Main Dish: Going Down
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New in Soapbox: Drowning Myself in the Gene Pool
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The Population Control policies implemented in the late 1960s and early 1970s are really mass extermination programs. The poor were again, and continue to be, defined responsible for their poverty. The ‘population bomb’ exploded onto the targeted ‘overpopulation’ and millions die because of lack of money for food, water, unhealthy living conditions, access to basic health services.