When a journalist on the panel said he didn’t see “how to get the rich world to consume less,” Ramdas said: “You force it… you can force women to have less children, you can force people to consume less… Suck it up!” Bioethicist Peter Singer
There really is nothing new under the sun. In a recent Yahoo News article, straightforwardly entitled “Save the Planet: Have Fewer Kids,” human beings are told—again, that we are the cause of all the earth’s woes. Everything would be better, the article declares, if we
Para leer este boletín en español, haga click aquí. 07 April 2009 — Vol. 11/No. 10 According to Nina Fedoroff, the United States’ Science and Technology Adviser, we should all be very, very afraid. Interviewed on the BBC’s One Planet radio program, Fedoroff came across
Note: The following is excerpted from Steven Mosher’s book, Population Control—Real Costs, Illusory Benefits. The first population bomber of the modern age was, by profession at least, ill-suited to the task. The Rev. Thomas Malthus, Anglican clergyman, predicted in 1798 that there would be standing
23 July 2008 Vol. 10 / No. 29 People of Faith Beware: The Left Has Decided That There Is No Right To Have More Than One Child The right to procreate goes back to the very beginning of time, and is part of our
02 June 2008 Vol. 10 / No. 22 Starvation Scapegoat: Blaming Population For A Green Problem Although the search for clean, alternative sources of energy is to be commended in and of itself, the environmentalist movement has a history of overreaching. The ethanol story
19 May 2008 Vol. 10 / No. 20 Welcoming Baby 6,666,666,666: PRI Celebrates the Latest Population Milestone According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the world’s 6,666,666,666th person was born on May 10th. The occasion gave rise to the usual calls for more population control
13 May 2008 Vol. 10 / No. 19 The Cost of Control: Steve Mosher’s Book Explodes the Myth of Overpopulation As the very first line of Steven Mosher’s latest book reads, we have all grown up “on a poisonous diet of overpopulation propaganda.” Mosher’s
When a journalist on the panel said he didn’t see “how to get the rich world to consume less,” Ramdas said: “You force it… you
There really is nothing new under the sun. In a recent Yahoo News article, straightforwardly entitled “Save the Planet: Have Fewer Kids,” human beings are
Para leer este boletín en español, haga click aquí. 07 April 2009 — Vol. 11/No. 10 According to Nina Fedoroff, the United States’ Science and
Note: The following is excerpted from Steven Mosher’s book, Population Control—Real Costs, Illusory Benefits. The first population bomber of the modern age was, by profession
23 July 2008 Vol. 10 / No. 29 People of Faith Beware: The Left Has Decided That There Is No Right To Have More
02 June 2008 Vol. 10 / No. 22 Starvation Scapegoat: Blaming Population For A Green Problem Although the search for clean, alternative sources of
19 May 2008 Vol. 10 / No. 20 Welcoming Baby 6,666,666,666: PRI Celebrates the Latest Population Milestone According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the
13 May 2008 Vol. 10 / No. 19 The Cost of Control: Steve Mosher’s Book Explodes the Myth of Overpopulation As the very first
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