If national baby bonuses send a message and that message gets results, then municipal contraception funding can send the opposite message and that message can...
This is a bit of an absurd headline. Obvioulsy 1% of 7 billion is 70 million and 1% of a smaller population would be smaller. 1% of an optimum population of 6...
He's very good in general, but makes a couple of very big errors. One is saying that population policies that can't be accomplished at the global level can...
Any and every other city can do this more easily than DC, but don't bother. DC is the ONLY city that must struggle this way to do what's right for the...
Professor Roger Short has co-authored a paper in The Lancet <http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2811%2961 746-7/fulltext?rss=yes> ...
I have heard that argument made by leaders in the field, but cannot point to any scientific studies. I start my counterpoint with the scientific maxim...
Don't forget his pivotal overpopulation speech! http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are/reverend-martin-luth er-king-jr-4728.htm Family Planning...
Maybe it is not evident to many people, but for me these "economic strategies", have a lot to do with overpopulation and the tabu to speak about it in many...
Debts and their solutions. When a parent (or a nation) has an enormous debt, unpayable and growing, the "solution"; (for the creditors, and normally taken as a...
No I don't see it because so many third world anti-imperialists leaders are or were themselves pronatalist, like Saddam Hussain, Hugo Chavez, the Taliban...
No I don't see it because so many third world anti-imperialists leaders are or were themselves pronatalist, like Saddam Hussain, Hugo Chavez, the Taliban...
Dear Al, thanks for the comment. I agree with you. I am convinced that pronatalist abound in communist, religious, tribal, capitalist, environmentalist, and in...
You are way overestimating the political difficulty here. We need do nothing like such authoritarian actions as proposed to reverse population growth as...
The best population strategy is the same everywhere, in the first world, the third world and especially our home towns. It is to transfer tax and charitable...
I think that 1.5 is a far more "magical" number than 2. It is a number that several nations have achieved, but not many. And many of the nations that have...
Firstly, the societal knowledge does exist outside of China, critically, it exists in certain US communities like Santa Cruz CA and Cambridge MA, and these...
1.5 is a better number than 2 not because it is lower, for example .08 is NOT a better number than 1.5. 1.5 is the best number because it has been achieved in...
Actually, I'm not at all worried about the age structure and the only reason I picked 1.5 over 0.001 is that we can prove that a society can achive 1.5 because...
The problem with outright trashing California is that we have to simultaniously hold it up as a model of the bluestates' best contraception, abortion rights...
I fully understand and agree with #2 below, but since regulating fertility is politically impossible, I don't bother advocating for it. But my main pint is...
FINALLY!!!! This is the core of the population movement. Immigration and planning ar peripheral at best and irrelevent by comparison because niether...
One important fact about India that I think you are missing; India is currently moving back towards more fertility reduction incentives, this time more...
