Environment News ServiceOctober 23, 2009. The population is still growing with many people migrating into the region, but little has been done to increase water storage or reduce consumption.
Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. October 14, 2009. Addressing water problems comes down to three choices: increase the water supply, decrease the water demand per person, or change the number of people.
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.
Kelpie Wilson, AlterNet. April 10, 2009. The last 200 years of economic growth have been based on a monumental Ponzi scheme that has pushed us toward the ultimate tipping point.
Laurie Mazur, AlterNet. March 28, 2009. Debaters on population usually take two sides: either they see it as a huge problem facing humanity, or that it's a non-issue. They're both wrong.
Chris Hedges, Truthdig. March 11, 2009. Cutting back on fossil fuels, shutting down our coal plants, and building seas of wind turbines, will be useless unless we nip population growth.
Andrew Simms, Joe Smith, YES! Magazine. December 17, 2008. What if you woke up one day to find that humans eventually did make the right decisions, and the world turned out to be a pretty cool place.
Paul & Anne Ehrlich, Yale Environment 360. August 7, 2008. An equitable and humane solution to overpopulation and overconsumption may actually be possible.
Robert Engelman, Island Press. June 10, 2008. The author of "More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want" writes that we can tackle a population-induced environmental crisis by empowering women.
George Monbiot, Comment Is Free. January 31, 2008. Some blame the poor for growing pressure on the world's resources, but the wealthy West takes the lion's share.
Madeleine Bunting, Comment Is Free. September 12, 2007. Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children.
Rick Perlstein, The Nation. July 4, 2007. Contrary to popular belief, the majority of Americans are liberal. How long will it take politicians and the media to get that?
Alan Bisbort, Smirking Chimp. June 5, 2007. Americans make the biggest environmental footprint on the planet but we have hundreds of excuses for never changing our behavior. Number one is that we are Americans.
Katha Pollitt, The Nation. April 9, 2007. It's ridiculous that we don't fight attempts to promote population growth while we wring our hands over global warming, species loss and suburban sprawl.
Jeremy Adam Smith, Public Eye. December 12, 2006. Rural Americans tend to see city culture as a haven for loose morals. Lucky for them, the Electoral College, Senate and federal budget have tilted power toward the heartland.
Pueng Vongs, New America Media. October 27, 2006. The decline in marriage has gripped the headlines of late, but the reports don't mention that marriage is holding its own among Americans who were born abroad.
Christopher Hayes, TheNation.com. October 24, 2006. Even though anti-immigration activists like to trot out population figures to support closing the borders, we should really be concerned with the number of cars -- not people -- in the U.S.
