No matter how hard political establishments work on spin control, the truth about their policies often manages to seep out around the ragged edges. So it is with the half-century-old myth about populations and their effect on economic prosperity. Even before World War II, birthrates
Speaking at a PRI-sponsored Congressional Briefing March 9 on Capitol Hill, Congressman Joseph Pitts (R-16-PA) renewed his call to shift 100 million foreign operations dollars from USAID population control projects to child survival programs instead. Congressman Pitts said that “When we address Foreign Operations Appropriations,
One of the rallying cries of population control advocates is that population growth leads to the depletion of natural resources. These fears are unfounded, according to an article in the New York Times (“U. S. Water Use Fell, Despite Population Increase, Reports Says” New York
Those Clintons certainly have a way with words. Which is another way of saying that you can never take what they say at face value. Consider Hillary Clinton’s speech at the recent Hague Forum, in which she vigorously attacked, to reportedly thunderous applause, “forced family
With falling fertility rates worldwide, many places in the developed world are facing the prospect of actual decline in numbers within the near future. Among these areas is the Canadian province of Quebec. A recent article in the Toronto Sun referred to citizens of Quebec
Stephen D. Mumford, President of the Center for Research on Population and Security (CRPS) and chief advocate of quinacrine sterilization worldwide, has moved his stockpile of some 290,000 quinacrine pellets and 1,536 quinacrine-filled inserters “abroad” to “avoid conflict”1 with the US Food and Drug Administration
Population controllers do not take rejection well. Take the partisans of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which late last year lost its $20 million annual subsidy from the U.S. Treasury. Regular readers of the Review will recall that the UNFPA secretly — and in
Environmentalism has been one of the “prime movers” of global population control, ever since the Sierra Club published Dr. Paul R. Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb in 1969. “Sustainable development” (a term first popularized at the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de
The place of Thomas Malthus in popular thought and language comes from his insistence that unchecked human populations would increase geometrically, while the available food Supply Could only increase arithmetically. The Malthusian threat that population growth supposedly presented to the world’s food supplies was the
Five years ago the Member States of the United Nations convened an enormous international conference in Cairo, Egypt on the subject of population and development. No need to retell that story here, except to say that it will rank as a major battlefield in what
No matter how hard political establishments work on spin control, the truth about their policies often manages to seep out around the ragged edges. So
Speaking at a PRI-sponsored Congressional Briefing March 9 on Capitol Hill, Congressman Joseph Pitts (R-16-PA) renewed his call to shift 100 million foreign operations dollars
One of the rallying cries of population control advocates is that population growth leads to the depletion of natural resources. These fears are unfounded, according
Those Clintons certainly have a way with words. Which is another way of saying that you can never take what they say at face value.
With falling fertility rates worldwide, many places in the developed world are facing the prospect of actual decline in numbers within the near future. Among
Stephen D. Mumford, President of the Center for Research on Population and Security (CRPS) and chief advocate of quinacrine sterilization worldwide, has moved his stockpile
Population controllers do not take rejection well. Take the partisans of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which late last year lost its $20 million
Environmentalism has been one of the “prime movers” of global population control, ever since the Sierra Club published Dr. Paul R. Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb
The place of Thomas Malthus in popular thought and language comes from his insistence that unchecked human populations would increase geometrically, while the available food
Five years ago the Member States of the United Nations convened an enormous international conference in Cairo, Egypt on the subject of population and development.