Population Growth

Census: Minorities Now Surpass Whites In US Births

AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 05.17.2012

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WASHINGTON — For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady imm...

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How to Make Population Growth Reverse Itself

Carl Safina | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Rwanda Genocide, 7 Billion World Population, Population Growth, Literacy, Poverty, World Population Growth, Anthropocene, Green News
Carl Safina

If our values change, we might use science and technology to save us. If our failed values persist, science and technology will only press our accelerator.

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Remembering "Mom" on Mother's Day

Robert Walker | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Population, Women's Empowerment, Population Growth, Women's Rights, Women, Family Planning, Mother's Day, Climate Change, Mother Earth, Reproductive Health, Environment, Sustainability, Motherhood, Mother's Day 2012, Global Motherhood, Maternal Health, Green News
Robert Walker

Our mothers, including Mother Earth, have done their best to nurture and care for us. It's time to return the favor.

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How Many People Can the World Support? It Depends...

Carl Safina | Posted 05.10.2012

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

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.

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When Scientists Speak, Who Listens?

Robert Walker | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Planet Under Pressure, Population, Population Growth, Biodiversity, Royal Society, Environment, Sustainability, Climate Change, Resource-Scarcity, Consumption, Food Security, Climate Change Science, Science, Global Warming, Scientists, Green News
Robert Walker

If scientists get any media attention it's only because the science-deniers are ridiculing them. We live in the Era of Willful Ignorance. It is not only acceptable; it is fashionable to throw scientific caution to the wind.

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Fighting Poverty Through a More Inclusive Economy

Mara Slade | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: World Population, Population Growth, Habitat for Humanity, Low-Income Housing, Hult Global Case Challenge, Impact News
Mara Slade

Our solution is to move Habitat for Humanity to a manufacturer of modular homes that streamlines the building process through employed labor, bringing economic development and jobs to those at the base of the economic pyramid.

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The Dangers of Contraception Revealed

Robert Walker | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Abortion, Population, Population Growth, Family Planning, Ross Douthat, Abortion Rights, Contraception, Reproductive Rights, Birth Control Debate, Contraception Debate, Marriage Rates, Birth Control Pill, Birth Control, Divorce Rates, Population Control, Reproductive Health, Women's Health, Politics News
Robert Walker

There's a basic misconception that clouds the thinking of many social and religious conservatives. Believing that contraceptive use is a moral wrong, they desperately want to make it into a social ill. To do that, they confuse correlation with causation.

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Is There Any Rational Reason To Have Children?

Lisa Belkin | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Moral Arguments Against Children, Having Children, Population Growth, The New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert, Population Control, Not Having Kids, Home News
Lisa Belkin

...moral tests imply logic, and we are outside that realm when we are talking about...Love...Faith...Children. Would these exist if rationality were the test?

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Rising Number of Farm Animals Poses Environmental and Public Health Risks

Danielle Nierenberg | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Food Production, Population Growth, Health Risks, Dairy, Farm, Milk, Environment, Animals, Green News
Danielle Nierenberg

Farm-animal production provides a safety net for millions of the world's most vulnerable people, but given the industry's rapid and often poorly regulated growth, the biggest challenge will be to produce meat in environmentally and socially sustainable ways.

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When an Elephant Falls in the African Bush

Robert Walker | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Family Planning, Global Warming, Mass Extinction, Animal Cloning, Population Growth, World Population, Animals Extinction, Green News
Robert Walker

When South Korean scientists announce, as they did earlier this month, that they hope to clone a Woolly Mammoth, the world listens, but if poachers kill 200 elephants in the African bush, as they did recently in Cameroon, does anyone really care?

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The Fall of Foolish Faith

Victor Stenger | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Liquid-Fluoride-Thorium-Reactor, Religion and Science, Pollution, Global Warming, Nuclear Power, Population Growth, Science News
Victor Stenger

Science is not going to change its commitment to the truth. And religion is not going to change its commitment to nonsense. And that is why I call upon scientists and all thinking people to focus their attention on reducing the influence of religion.

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

Mary Ellen Harte | Posted 05.01.2012

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
Mary Ellen Harte

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.

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SantorumPopulationControl

Jeff Danziger | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Rick Santorum, Population Growth, Birth Control, Political Cartoon, Politics News
Jeff Danziger

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10 Countries With the Largest Projected Population Growth: American Exceptionalism

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 04.01.2012

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
Howard Steven Friedman

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?

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Population Set To Shrink By One-Third

AP | MARI YAMAGUCHI | Posted 03.31.2012

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TOKYO (AP) — Japan's population of 128 million will shrink by one-third and seniors will account for 40 percent of people by 2060, placing a greater...

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Smart Resource Management: Good for Nature, People and Business

Mark Tercek | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Energy, The Nature Conservancy, Population Growth, Natural Resources, Water, Green News, Davos 2012, Conservation, Mark Tercek, World Economic Forum, Food Security, WEF 2012, Davos, Wef, World Economic Forum 2012, Business News
Mark Tercek

Rising incomes, of course, are a good thing. But a rapidly growing and more affluent population are straining the natural systems on which natural diversity, human health and prosperity depend.

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Santorum's Crazy Baby-Love

Nina Burleigh | Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: Rick Santorum, Abortion, Population Growth, Contraception, Overpopulation, Politics News
Nina Burleigh

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 ...

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Florida Could Pass New York In Population Size In Two Years

AP | Posted 02.20.2012

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ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida had the nation's third largest population growth in the past year. The U.S. Census reported Wednesday that Florida grew...

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If You Knew Newt Like I Knew Newt

Robert Walker | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Abortion, Population, Contraception, Population Growth, Family Planning, Newt Gingrich, Climate Change, Politics News
Robert Walker

Newt Gingrich loves new ideas. But, often, he's not very faithful to those ideas. There was a time, not that long ago, that he was infatuated with the idea of actually doing something about climate change.

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Locked-in Syndrome

Robert Walker | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Population Growth, Greenhouse Gases, Climate Change, Durban Conference, Durban Climate Conference, Climate Change Food, Climate Sustainability, Environment Climate, Green News
Robert Walker

We are, for the moment, locked-in to a course that is almost certainly unsustainable. Our best hope is that the "global body politic" can be spurred to action on climate change before it's too late.

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Welcome to the World

Kristin Lindsey | Posted 02.05.2012

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Kristin Lindsey

We must do better for the next billion. What happens to them has meaning for all of us. And because they are children, it is up to us to fulfill that promise.

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Senior Population Hits 40-Million Plus: Census

ABC News | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Census, Population Growth, Baby Boomers, ABC News, u.s. Census Bureau, Seniors, Fifty News

Good news for seniors: It's getting easier to get a date. That's one takeaway from a U.S. Census Bureau number crunch on older Americans. The senior p...

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...And Food Justice for All: 11 Amazing Vegan Recipes (SLIDESHOW)

Nil Zacharias | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Slidepollajax, Plant-Based Diet, Population, Veganism, Population Growth, Food Justice, Vegan Diet, Vegan, Food Security, Food News
Nil Zacharias

2011-11-03-Screenshot20111103at12.05.28PM.jpg We can all make a difference right now, by choosing plant-based foods when we eat. Here are 11 delicious recipes to get you started.

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Seven Billion and Counting

Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin | Posted 01.02.2012

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Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin

We have grown from six to seven billion in little more than a dozen years. So it is easy to see why there are worries about what population growth means for our future, our quality of life and the health of our planet.

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Seven Billion Ways to Swallow God

Mark Morford | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Population Growth, Population Starvation, 7 Billion Population, Seven Billion People, Water Shortage Population, Human Progress Population, Overpopulation Resources, Natural Resources Population, Comedy News
Mark Morford

Do you hear "world population hits seven billion" and recoil like a good misanthrope, a jaded cynic, seeing only strained resources and lots and lots of pain and suffering?

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