On AlterNet: overpopulation
Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "overpopulation"
Scott Thill, AlterNet. November 14, 2009.
Many have fallen sway to demographically data about cultural or religious birth rates -- here's why it's a fool's game.
George Monbiot, Monbiot.com. October 2, 2009.
It's time we had the guts to name the problem. It isn't population; it's consumption. It's not sex; it's money. It's not the poor; it's the rich.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. September 19, 2009.
The greenest technology available to us may not be solar panels, but instead contraception, according to a new report.
Matt Leonard, Earth Island Journal. June 10, 2009.
"Any child I had would have been raised here and would consume (despite my best efforts) far more resources than I am comfortable accepting."
Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360. April 14, 2009.
Let's challenge the convenient notion that "over-consumers" in rich countries can blame "over-breeders" in distant lands.
Betsy Hartmann, AlterNet. March 14, 2009.
Raising alarms about overpopulation distracts us from the real environmental tasks at hand and legitimizes top-down punitive policies that hurt women.
