From the PRI Mailbag

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

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Global Monitor

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.

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Lester Brown: Still Wrong After All These Years

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

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Popcorn

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

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Rome’s other ghosts: Population Control at the Food Summit

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

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Taking the long position

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

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UN? No thanks.

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

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Bad blood in the Philippines?

Possibly tainted vaccine may be tip of the iceberg Philippine women may have been unwittingly vaccinated against their own children, a recent study conducted by the Philippine Medical Association (PMA) has indicated.1 The study tested random samples of a tetanus vaccine for the presence of

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From the PRI Mailbag

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

Read More »

Global Monitor

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

Read More »

Popcorn

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:

Read More »

UN? No thanks.

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.

Read More »

Bad blood in the Philippines?

Possibly tainted vaccine may be tip of the iceberg Philippine women may have been unwittingly vaccinated against their own children, a recent study conducted by

Read More »