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Controversy shadows UN population meeting

Controversy shadows UN population meeting See: https://www.devex.com/en/news/controversy-shadows-un-population-meeting/80811 The 46th session of the Commission on Population and Development concluded...

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Environmental Ignorance Is Economic Bliss

Environmental Ignorance Is Economic Bliss by Philip Barnes   See: http://steadystate.org/environmental-ignorance-is-economic-bliss/ In The Descent of Man, Charles Darwin wrote that “ignorance more...

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Stewards of the natural world do not understand the precautionary principle

Stewards of the natural world do not understand the precautionary principle The UK government does not possess a definition of the principle at the heart of environmental protection and law See:...

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Cost Of Birth Control Higher In Some Low-Income Neighborhoods Than In Wealthy...

Cost Of Birth Control Higher In Some Low-Income Neighborhoods Than In Wealthy Ones See: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/06/cost-of-birth-control_n_3211207.html Prescription contraceptives cost...

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What happened to the environmental movement?

When the Earth Moved What happened to the environmental movement? by Nicholas Lemann April 15, 2013 See:...

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Doctoring in a family way

Doctoring in a family way A proposed policy change would eliminate reproductive training for GP residents, which would put such care out of reach for many women. See:...

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Deep Sea Mining: Economic Bonanza or Environmental Boondoggle?

Deep Sea Mining: Economic Bonanza or Environmental Boondoggle? See: http://www.theworld.org/2013/05/deep-sea-mining-economic-bonanza-or-environmental-boondoggle/ The World couldn’t afford to send me...

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Terracide and the Terrarists

Terracide and the Terrarists  Destroying the Planet for Record Profits  See: Article at Source By Tom Engelhardt We have a word for the conscious slaughter of a racial or ethnic group: genocide.  And...

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You Need Phosphorus To Live — And We Are Running Out

You Need Phosphorus To Live — And We Are Running Out See:  http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/05/fertilizer-peak-phosphorus-shortage Western Sahara, a sparsely populated slice of desert on...

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#Fail — Myanmar accused of bias in population control policy

Myanmar accused of bias in population control policy Human Rights Watch says a two-child limit for minority Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine state violates human rights and should be revoked....

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Humans Are Not Like Slowly Boiling Frogs … We Are Like Slowly Boiling...

Humans Are Not Like Slowly Boiling Frogs … We Are Like Slowly Boiling Brainless Frogs See:...

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Texas is the Latest to Enact Rules Aimed at Shutting Down Abortion Providers:...

Texas is the Latest to Enact Rules Aimed at Shutting Down Abortion Providers: Solutions in Search of a Problem July 18, 2013 See: http://www.guttmacher.org/media/inthenews/2013/07/18/index.html This...

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The Supreme Court’s Next Big Abortion Decision

The Supreme Court’s Next Big Abortion Decision The high court has agreed to review an Oklahoma law restricting medication abortions. See:...

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Going, Going, Gone? Reservoirs for Colorado River Reach Record Lows

Going, Going, Gone? Reservoirs for Colorado River Reach Record Lows See: http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/07/26/colorado-rivers-reservoirs-record-low It was 92 years ago this week that the 1,450...

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The Growth Ponzi Scheme

The Growth Ponzi Scheme See: http://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme/ We often forget that the American pattern of suburban development is an experiment, one that has never been tried...

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More Wildfires = More Warming = More Wildfires

More Wildfires = More Warming = More Wildfires Why scientists are scared of the link between bigger wildfires and rapid thawing of northern permafrost. See:...

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Child Marriage In Nigeria: Viral Video Mocks Yeriman, Country’s Child...

Child Marriage In Nigeria: Viral Video Mocks Yeriman, Country’s Child Marriage Superhero See: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/25/child-marriage-nigeria-video-yeriman_n_3653660.html Is this...

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Most “Brides” in Niger are Children

Most Brides in Niger are Children See: http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/07/most-brides-in-niger-are-children/ NIAMEY , Jul 30 2013 (IPS) – For El Hadji Souley Moussa, a 60-year-old retired bank employee in...

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Falling fertility rates pose “threat” to government revenues

Falling fertility rates pose threat to government revenues See: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/a2088728-f544-11e2-b4f800144feabdc0.html#axzz2aNVogL5A This week, Britain is baby obsessed. But amid all...

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The Unintended Consequences of the War on Women

The Unintended Consequences of the War on Women See: http://blog.populationinstitute.org/2013/07/30/the-unintended-consequences-of-the-war-on-women/ Wars as a rule are not exercises in critical...

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