Third World Population Growth: White Man’s Burden? Foreword by Steven W. Mosher John D. Rockefeller III’s 1958 swing through Asia had momentous consequences for the cultures of the world. For the scion of the Rockefeller family came back from a close encounter with Asian poverty
The effort to import the French abortion pill, RU-486, to the United States has bogged down in a swamp of lawsuits and counter-suits which may delay the pill’s US release more than a year, advocates admitted recently. Litigation began after the pill’s chief US proponent,
A letter from a fan Surely there aren’t people in this World that are this self-centered and shortsighted as to believe the crap on these [PRI Website] pages. Certainly nobody really believes that God put us here to pave this green earth, cut down the
The sharp slowdown in world population growth, disclosed in the US Census Bureau’s World Population Profile: 1996, and reported on in a previous issue of this Review,1 has received new confirmation in the just released World Population Prospects2 report of the United Nations’ Population Division.
Lester Brown, President of the Worldwatch Institute and professional alarmist, simply cannot admit he is wrong. At November’s Food Summit, Brown once again warned of imminent food shortages and impending disaster unless families worldwide stop having babies. What is needed, he claimed, is for all
In Betrayal of Science and Reason,1 the latest overpopulation polemic from Paul and Anne Ehrlich one finds the following regarding future prospects for agricultural production: More ominous, perhaps, is the possible impact of global climate change on agricultural ecosystems. Rapid climate change could deliver the
The UN Food and Agriculture Association’s (FAO’s) World Food Summit began with the announcement that the summit’s Rome Declaration and Plan of Action had already been decided upon at the summit’s preparatory meetings. This reduced the official Summit’s five days to a largely pointless exercise
New NGO to use UN as marketing tool In what may be the first instance of a looming trend, the manufacturer of the first ever female condom has set up a non-profit foundation to both market its product in the developing world and to employ
Like many children of the Fifties, it has taken me a long time to overcome my residual feelings of good will for the United Nations. Initiated by my own country to be a force for good in the world, the UN was going to ensure
With the conclusion of the recent Food Summit, in Rome 13–17 November, the United Nations (UN) has consolidated its position as the world’s largest and most systematically anti-natalist organization. Armed with “‘plans of action” from each of this decade’s other major global summits, UN bureaucrats
Third World Population Growth: White Man’s Burden? Foreword by Steven W. Mosher John D. Rockefeller III’s 1958 swing through Asia had momentous consequences for the
The effort to import the French abortion pill, RU-486, to the United States has bogged down in a swamp of lawsuits and counter-suits which may
A letter from a fan Surely there aren’t people in this World that are this self-centered and shortsighted as to believe the crap on these
The sharp slowdown in world population growth, disclosed in the US Census Bureau’s World Population Profile: 1996, and reported on in a previous issue of
Lester Brown, President of the Worldwatch Institute and professional alarmist, simply cannot admit he is wrong. At November’s Food Summit, Brown once again warned of
In Betrayal of Science and Reason,1 the latest overpopulation polemic from Paul and Anne Ehrlich one finds the following regarding future prospects for agricultural production:
The UN Food and Agriculture Association’s (FAO’s) World Food Summit began with the announcement that the summit’s Rome Declaration and Plan of Action had already
New NGO to use UN as marketing tool In what may be the first instance of a looming trend, the manufacturer of the first ever
Like many children of the Fifties, it has taken me a long time to overcome my residual feelings of good will for the United Nations.
With the conclusion of the recent Food Summit, in Rome 13–17 November, the United Nations (UN) has consolidated its position as the world’s largest and