family planning,family size,fertility,overpopulation,overshoot,population growth,sustainable popluation
Kudos to Egyptian Minister of Social Solidarity Ghada Wall for launching a program to curb the country’s population growth. The new program is called “Itnein Kifaya” (“Two is Enough”)
climate change,economic growth,gdp growth,limits to growth,overshoot,sustainability
You might think the biggest threat to human civilization, or at least to a comfortable life, is climate change. It’s not, and Richard Heinberg makes the Wall of Fame today for clearly articulating this. He gets extra credit for putting technology in its place (not our savior) in this piece originally published in Ecowatch, but better headlined here at postcarbon.org:
economic development,economic growth,limits to growth,overpopulation,overshoot,population growth,sustainability,taxes,traffic congestion
While most politicians promise, pursue, and extoll the virtues of economic growth, they generally shy away from public admissions they’re chasing population growth to get it.
economic growth,gdp,gdp growth,limits to growth,overpopulation,overshoot,population decline,sustainability,sustainable popluation
I was prepared to slap this story onto the Wall of Shame when I saw the headline. After all, it’s just another worry piece about a “birth dearth” in a nation that actually doesn’t know how lucky it is.
economic development,economic growth,gdp,gdp growth,limits to growth,overpopulation,overshoot,population growth
New York Times headline writers and reporter Chris Buckley have kindly provided this week’s textbook example of subtle word choices that keep the quest for population growth alive.