The hysteria over global warming and its corollary that “people are the problem” drowns out and, in some cases cuts off, legitimate scientific evaluation of environmental relationships. Suppose, for example, scientists demonstrated that levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air really were rising, and
Editor’s note: The following description of a recent fundraising dinner for Zero Population Growth ran on the front page of the organization’s site on the World Wide Web. Aside from pointing out that, despite the comments of Mr. Kostmayer and Mr. Wirth, “family planning” around
For 30 years, one notion has shaped much of modern social thought: that the human species is reproducing itself uncontrollably, and ominously. In his best-selling book of 1968, The Population Bomb, Paul Ehrlich warned that “the cancer of population growth must be cut out” or
The world’s innocents dodged a bullet — temporarily at least. Negotiators in the global climate conference held in Kyoto, Japan, over 1–10 December were unable to frame an agreement which contained new population control targets for the developing world. Instead they limited themselves to writing
Kyoto cocktails The timing of the United States delegation’s press briefings, held at 7 p.m., daily miffed conference participants at the global warming summit in Kyoto, Japan in early December. Tired from their labors wrestling with the problems of controlling world population and shackling world
World leaders met in Kyoto, Japan in early December to sign a treaty that will attempt to reduce greenhouse gases and thwart the threat of global climate change. The Clinton Administration has justified such a measure to combat the apocalyptic effects that projected global warming
Not many today can profess ignorance of purportedly one of the worst of catastrophes looming on the horizon. Global warming or the drought, flooding, famine, over-population and extinction that are variously linked to it, have taken over the headline. The environmentalist agenda has become a
Kudos Just got your complimentary review — good job! I’ve been exposing the over-population myth to my students for years — perhaps we might share a few ideas. For example, one of the methods I teach for spotting extremists is: Do the arithmetic! For instance,
Japanese to be world’s oldest Japanese are “bracing” themselves for soon having the highest proportion of elderly in its population in the world. By 2050 thirty-three percent will be older than sixty-five, supplanting Sweden as the nation with the highest percentage of elderly. Meanwhile, more
UN AIDS estimates doubled Medical experts working for the United Nations say they have grossly underestimated the spread of the AIDS virus worldwide, and they now believe that new infections are occurring almost twice as fast as they thought just one year ago. Instead of
The hysteria over global warming and its corollary that “people are the problem” drowns out and, in some cases cuts off, legitimate scientific evaluation of
Editor’s note: The following description of a recent fundraising dinner for Zero Population Growth ran on the front page of the organization’s site on the
For 30 years, one notion has shaped much of modern social thought: that the human species is reproducing itself uncontrollably, and ominously. In his best-selling
The world’s innocents dodged a bullet — temporarily at least. Negotiators in the global climate conference held in Kyoto, Japan, over 1–10 December were unable
Kyoto cocktails The timing of the United States delegation’s press briefings, held at 7 p.m., daily miffed conference participants at the global warming summit in
World leaders met in Kyoto, Japan in early December to sign a treaty that will attempt to reduce greenhouse gases and thwart the threat of
Not many today can profess ignorance of purportedly one of the worst of catastrophes looming on the horizon. Global warming or the drought, flooding, famine,
Kudos Just got your complimentary review — good job! I’ve been exposing the over-population myth to my students for years — perhaps we might share
Japanese to be world’s oldest Japanese are “bracing” themselves for soon having the highest proportion of elderly in its population in the world. By 2050
UN AIDS estimates doubled Medical experts working for the United Nations say they have grossly underestimated the spread of the AIDS virus worldwide, and they