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Oil Boom Pushing 'Stressed Out' Residents Of Town To Move Away

2012-05-22T21:58:15Z

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Oil has brought enormous economic prosperity to the busiest city in North Dakota's booming oil patch but also has exacerbated ...

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Peter M. J. Hess, Ph.D.: The Titanic, Climate Change And Avoidable Tragedies

2012-05-21T12:02:48Z

Like the Titanic, our present-day industrial civilization is a marvel of human ingenuity, and yet, a reckoning looms on the horizon.

Read more: Titanic, Evolution, Overpopulation, Climate Change, Moral Obligation, Christianity, Green Faith, Climate Deniers, Religion News

Carl Safina: How Many People Can the World Support? It Depends...

2012-05-08T09:46:01Z

We need a new, non-burning energy economy, a way of reducing population, and a way of replacing the delusion of infinite growth. That's what we need. Or the population will be adjusted in the usual way: with shortages, bullets, and bombs.

Read more: Population Growth, Climate Change, Anthropocene, John Stewart Mill, Overpopulation, Thomas Malthus, Resources Environment, Forests, Green News

Eric Holt Gimenez: We Already Grow Enough Food For 10 Billion People -- and Still Can't End Hunger

2012-05-02T10:20:42Z

Hunger is caused by poverty and inequality, not scarcity. For the past two decades, the rate of global food production has increased faster than the rate of global population growth.

Read more: Organic Farming, World Hunger, Nature, Poverty, Overpopulation, Agriculture, Sustainability, Global Poverty, Food News

Can We Feed 9 Billion People?

2012-05-02T08:42:00Z

By Laurie Goering LONDON, May 2 (AlertNet) - In flood-hit fields in the Philippines, farmers are testing a hardy new variety of rice th...

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Charles Peralo: Are We Methuselah?

2012-04-17T08:13:52Z

The fourth massive stage in human history is here. So the key now is spreading this information in order to speed up the process. With that education, financial and medical reforms will be made.

Read more: Methuselah, Millenials, Aging, Longevity, Life Expectancy, Methuselah Fly, Overpopulation, Teen News

Robert Walker: Living on Planet Duggar

2012-03-30T11:45:16Z

Let's hope that Michelle Duggar knows vastly more about population and resources than all those scientists at "Planet under Pressure," a conference aimed at finding solutions to climate change and the challenge of feeding another 2.3 billion people by 2050.

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Jennifer Grayson: Eco Etiquette: What Would Health Care Repeal Mean For The Environment?

2012-03-29T03:58:00Z

Send all your eco-inquiries to Jennifer Grayson at eco.etiquette@gmail.com. Questions may be edited for length and clarity.

What's the Green stance o...

Read more: Pill Pollution, Insurance Companies, Supreme Court Health Care Reform, Green News, Preventive Care, Green Living, Medical Waste, Overpopulation, Agricultural Policy, Health Care Reform, Affordable Care Act, Universal Health Care, Health Care, Green Politics, Obamacare, Obama Health Care Reform, Green News

Larry Doyle: It's Raining Babies

2011-11-01T09:00:58Z

Seven billion people adds up to roughly one trillion pounds of human flesh, an amount that would prove irresistible to some passing race of man-eating aliens. And consider further that Americans, soft and well-marbled, would be the most delicious.

Mary Ellen Harte: Micro Chameleons Are Cute -- and Threatened: Want to Help Them?

2012-03-01T14:01:11Z

I get frustrated watching nature shows or reading about fascinating habitats that I know are becoming increasingly threatened, with no mention about how threatened they are, and much less (and more importantly) how we can help personally.

Read more: Population, Population Growth, Family Planning, Contraceptives, Developing Countries, Wildlife Conservation Society, Wildlife Conservation, Overpopulation, Madagascar, Conservation, Cute Animals, Chameleons, Deforestation, Wildlife, Science News

Paul Gilding: The Earth Is Full (Video)

2012-02-29T21:27:27Z

Sure, technology will do wonderful things for us, but the reality is we are going to face some very difficult consequences of our overloading of planet earth.

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Howard Steven Friedman: 10 Countries With the Largest Projected Population Growth: American Exceptionalism

2012-01-31T18:46:59Z

The US population is wealthier, older, less fertile and more influenced by immigration than the other countries projected to experience major population growth, so why is the U.S. population is expected to grow much more than other wealthy countries?

Read more: Abortion, Population, Population Growth, Family Planning, Emigration, 7 Billion People, Overpopulation, Fertility, Immigration, Life Expectancy, Demographics, Oecd, Thomas Malthus, India, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, Nigeria, United States, Philippines, Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, China, World Population, World News

Katherine Krauss: The Benefits of Global Urbanization

2012-01-19T09:31:43Z

Clearly, cities have environmental benefits, but the real reason that I am so highly in favor of the world's trend towards urbanization is because cities are the centers of idea exchange.

Read more: Environment, Urbanization, Overpopulation, High School News

Deepak Chopra: Why The Glass Is Half-Full

2012-01-12T08:00:01Z

The point isn't that you have to believe the positive and ignore the negative. The two sides are intimately linked and inescapable. But you can align yourself with the positive side. The vote is cast at the level of consciousness.

Read more: Epidemics, Global Trends, Current Events, Overpopulation, Optimism, War, Global Issues, Democratization, Happiness, Good News News

Nina Burleigh: Santorum's Crazy Baby-Love

2012-01-08T00:02:55Z

Rick Santorum's outrageous attacks on contraception and gay marriage are rooted in the notion that sex be about procreation only. He is not alone. He ...

Read more: Rick Santorum, Abortion, Population Growth, Contraception, Overpopulation, Politics News

Cary Fowler: Feeding an Ever-growing Population

2011-12-02T18:22:40Z

Mankind reached its first billion just as the 19th century got underway. That feat of fecundity required eons. It took us just 12 years, however, to tack on the last billion. We're definitely on a roll.

Read more: Global Population, Plant-Genetics, Food, Crop-Diversity, Plant Breeding, Overpopulation, Crops, Food Security, Impact News

Morgan Fitzgibbons: #OccupyYourNeighborhood

2011-11-18T11:38:58Z

The Occupy movement has been incredibly inspiring. But it is time to move beyond mere inspiration. We must parlay this unprecedented (in most of our lifetimes) uprising into an effective and lasting transformation.

Read more: Occupy Oakland, Occupy San Francisco, Community Organizing, Occupy Everywhere, Resilience, Occupy Wall Street, Overpopulation, Climate Change, Occupy Movement, Community Organizations, San Francisco News

Edward Flattau: The Seven Billion Quandary

2011-11-11T11:07:19Z

Those who exult are apt to embrace the philosophy "the more, the merrier". Those who have grave reservations worry that the human race is in danger of overrunning the planet's natural resource carrying capacity.

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Kieran Suckling: 7 Billion: More of Us, Fewer of Them

2011-11-01T13:41:05Z

"Hump smarter, save the snail darter." "Cover your tweedle, save the American burying beetle." Who knew talking about extinction could be such fun?

Read more: Overpopulation, Endangered Species, Green News

Anushay Hossain: Seven Billion People & Women's Rights: What Is the Connection?

2011-11-01T10:56:57Z

Reaching seven billion may be a milestone today, but unless we address women being able to access modern contraception, this number will only increase and bring with it dire consequences.

Read more: Population, Women's Rights, Population-Action-International, Seven Billion People, Reproductive Rights, Overpopulation, Overpopulation Climate Change, Maternal Health, Guttmacher Institute, Icpd, World News

PHOTOS: Seeds Like You've Never Seen Them

2011-10-30T19:47:46Z

From National Geographic's New "7 Billion" App:

Heirloom vegetables have become fashionable in the United States and Europe over the past decade, p...

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WATCH: The Thrill Of Photographing A Lion In Africa

2011-10-29T14:40:49Z

From National Geographic's New "7 Billion" App:

Africa's Albertine Rift

As the global population soars toward nine billion by 2045, this corner ...

Read more: Lion Photo, Tree-Climbing Lion, Video, Lion Video, Joel Sartore, Overpopulation, Africas Albertine Rift, 7 Billion App, Africa Video, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Green News

Seven BIllion Humans On Earth: How Does It Compare To Other Species?

2011-10-28T15:44:49Z

From National Geographic's New "7 Billion" App:

Nigel Holmes writes:

There will soon be seven billion humans on Earth, but how does that number ...

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PHOTOS: Unique Chickens Facing Extinction

2011-10-27T10:35:22Z

From National Geographic's New "7 Billion" App:

A crisis is looming: To feed our growing population, we’ll need to double food production. Yet cr...

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7 Billion And Counting: Challenges as World Population Hits Milestone

2011-10-17T08:34:23Z

She's a 40-year-old mother of eight, with a ninth child due soon. The family homestead in a Burundi village is too small to provide enough food, and t...

Read more: Population, World Population, Reproduction, Family Planning, Poverty, Children, Overpopulation, Water, Uganda, U.N. Population Fund, World News