In the long term, no substantial benefit will result from continued US population growth. The gradual stabilization of the American population by voluntary means would contribute significantly to America’s ability to solve its problems. This declaration of half a century ago was the unequivocal central conclusion of the groundbreaking reportRead More →
Peshawar – Former Ambassador Manzoor-ul-Haq said on Sunday that controlling population growth has always been a big challenge for developing countries like Pakistan and stressed the need to create a balance between population and resources of the country to provide quality services to people elsewhere. ensure sustainable economic growth andRead More →
the World population growth and sustainable development The report, launched on Wednesday, is the latest in a series on major demographic trends. The number of people on the planet has more than tripled since 1950 and could reach almost 11 billion by the end of the century, according to theRead More →
Regarding Tim Sullivan’s recent comment regarding the threat of climate change, he too neglected to mention the most significant contributor. When Steamboat Resort opened its doors a little over a century ago, the world’s population was less than half of what it is today. During this same period, Routt County’sRead More →
Slowing population growth creating an economic time bomb Rather than worrying about an overpopulated planet, we should worry more about the possibility of not having enough young people to sustain economic growth at current levels. In the 1973 film “Soylent Green”, the cumulative impacts of rampant overpopulation, pollution and climateRead More →
A crowded street in Haridwar, Uttarakhand, in March 2020. Photo: Shashank Hudkar/Unsplash India’s population is now 138 crore and could overtake China by 2024 as the most populous country in the world. Some experts and political leaders have pointed to this growing population as a problem for the climate toRead More →
Nobody seems to take note of the demographic explosion scenario on the Indian subcontinent. India seems to have forgotten their slogans’Hum do hamare do’ (We two – ours two) and ‘Pehla Baccha Abhi Nahin-Do ke baad kabhi nahin‘ (First child not now – after two never) maybe because of voteRead More →
It is imperative to make national population control laws for the unity and integrity of the whole country and implement them equally India’s uncontrolled population growth has become the central topic of discussion among common people these days. It is true that the discussion began before independence, but due toRead More →
In response to letters criticizing Review-Journal columnist Victor Joecks’ recent article urging people to have more children: The world population growth rate, which is currently 1%, has been declining since 1988. Population scientists predict that world growth will be zero by the end of the century, if not sooner. TheseRead More →
Gwynne Dyer is a Canadian international affairs journalist and commentator. OPINION: In population policy, the magic number is 2.1. This is the “replacement level”: if a country’s fertility rate (the average number of children a woman has in her lifetime) is 2.1, then the country’s population will remain stable .Read More →
If we assume that green solutions will help tackle the climate crisis, we have to keep in mind that if the level of demand for solutions is also present or higher, then solutions will become stressed, stretched, unsustainable and a source of concern for the environment and climate. Just likeRead More →
The turnout at the recently concluded climate summit was impressive and laden with declarations and commitments to net zero emissions. However, whether (and how quickly) countries repay their commitments has nothing to do with what their diplomats said in Glasgow and everything to do with the domestic politics of eachRead More →
The turnout at the recently concluded climate summit was impressive and laden with declarations and commitments to net zero emissions. However, whether (and how quickly) countries repay their commitments has nothing to do with what their diplomats said in Glasgow and everything to do with the domestic politics of eachRead More →
On January 1, at the stroke of midnight, New York City welcomed its first new inhabitant of 2022: Leyla Gessel Tzunun Garcia, born at the start of the new year at Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn. With changing population and fertility trends, however, there is less competition to become theRead More →
By Llewellyn King InsideSources.com It wasn’t front and center at the climate change summit, COP26, in Glasgow, but it was whispered informally, in the hallways and over meals. For politicians it is flammable, for some religions it is heresy. Yet it demands to be heard: the growth of the world’sRead More →
It was not in the foreground at the climate change summit in Glasgow, but it was whispered informally, in hallways and over meals. For politicians, it is flammable. For some religions, this is heresy. Yet it requires a hearing: the growth of the world’s population. As the world struggles toRead More →
It was not in the foreground at the climate change summit in Glasgow, but it was whispered in the hallways and over meals. For politicians, it is flammable. For some religions, this is heresy. Yet it requires a hearing: the growth of the world’s population. As the world struggles toRead More →
Amid the growing impact of climate change, stakeholders advocated the need to control population growth in Lagos to limit threats posed by climate change. Lagos State Deputy Governor Dr Obafemi Hamzat led the call at a conference to mark the 70th birthday and retirement of Professor Babajide Alo, at theRead More →
Dr Y Udaya ChandarOn July 11, 2021, World Population Day, Yogi Adityanath, the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, unveiled his bill for UP, “UP Population (Control, Stabilization, and Welfare) Act 2021”. The purpose of the law is to discourage and prevent UP people from having more than two children. TheRead More →
Image source: PTI (FILE). Asaduddin Owaisi criticizes the government’s population control bill. Ahead of the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi blamed the Uttar Pradesh government for the colossal mishandling of the COVID-19 crisis and sneered. opposed to the recently introduced Uttar Pradesh Population Control Bill. AddressingRead More →
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has given instructions to form a high-level population control committee. Dhami’s order came days after the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) suggested that a population control policy be introduced in Uttarakhand along the lines of those in place in Uttar Pradesh and India. Neighboring Assam.Read More →
Madhya Pradesh is India’s sixth most populous state according to the 2011 census (File) Bhopal: The Uttar Pradesh government’s controversial proposal for population control has drawn attention in Madhya Pradesh, with ruling BJP members demanding a similar law in their state. Some of those calling for such measures lashed outRead More →
The RSS-supported Muslim body Muslim Rashtriya Manch has started to raise awareness about the Population Control Bill in Uttar Pradesh, the first draft of which was released by the State Law Commission of Uttar Pradesh. ‘UP for public comment. He will also soon reflect on how he can play aRead More →
Population dynamics can pose both challenges and opportunities to development efforts depending on the resource availability ratio Human population control is the practice of artificially altering the growth rate of a human population that has been implemented by limiting the population’s birth rate, usually by government mandate. Factors such asRead More →
Despite global calls for countries to use family planning as a method of population control, prioritizing health services and adequate education for its citizens, contraceptive use is still extremely low in some African countries, including Nigeria. As an important component of nation building, investing in family planning is one ofRead More →
Since 1970, the average the global temperature has increased by 0.8 C. During this time, the world’s population has doubled and carbon dioxide emissions have more than doubledaccording to data from the International Energy Agency. World Bank figures confirm this.showing that we are emitting a little more per capita thanRead More →
Amid reports of several deaths in Norway after the Covid-19 vaccine was administered, a viral Facebook post claims that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wants to reduce the world’s population through forced vaccination. The Facebook post shows an old newspaper article to back up the claim. Many Facebook users posted aRead More →
The Union government has told the Supreme Court it is against the use of “involuntary methods” in family planning, saying international experience has shown that any coercion to have a certain number of children would be counter-productive and would lead to demographic distortions. “The family planning program in India isRead More →
“We are at the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth,” noted climate activist and Time the magazine’s personality of the year Greta Thunberg in front of the United Nations in the summer of 2019. “How dareRead More →
Climate change has taken center stage globally in recent months after three reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which paint a dire picture of the future if governments do not take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But when it comes to changing our behaviors to reduce CO2Read More →
In a world rotting from the impact of civilization, population control is the solution. While this seems like a morbid solution to the chaos humanity has created, the reality is that everyone supports population control in one way or another, consciously or unconsciously. Indeed, population control is arguably the politicalRead More →
“If we can get rid of enough people” the terrorist from El Paso wrote in his grotesque manifesto, “then our way of life can be more sustainable.” His sectarian outburst left little doubt as to who he meant by “us” and “our way of life.” Far-right eco-fascism presents its racistRead More →
OPINION: Is the left re-embracing Malthusian population control to save the planet? Of all the silly proposals put forward by Democratic presidential hopefuls at CNN’s town hall on climate change last week, the dumbest wasn’t to ban plastic straws, incandescent light bulbs or travel. by plane. It wasn’t the claimRead More →
The pace of population growth around the world is slowing down, so much so that the 21st century may be the last where the digital presence of our species increases year on year. This is one of the highlights of the most recent revision of the World Population Prospects, releasedRead More →