Tag: "overpopulation"

An Open Response to: "Should America Have a One-Child Policy?"
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An Open Response to: “Should America Have a One-Child Policy?”

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Last Tuesday, the Washington Times published an article by Joseph Cotto entitled, “Overpopulation: Should America have a one-child policy?” Despite the provocative title, the article does not present a stimulating thought-experiment, but rather a series of half-truths and inconsistencies with dangerous implications. Because such half-truths have been at the ideological root of every forced abortion […]

Debunking the Myth of Overpopulation
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Debunking the Myth of Overpopulation

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Anne Roback Morse also contributed to this article. We are contacted all the time by people asking for how they can refute the arguments of those who believe that the world is overpopulated. So we have decided to create a short primer called “How to Debunk the Myth of Overpopulation in Three Easy Steps.” Before […]

The Dangers of an Aging World
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The Dangers of an Aging World

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Wolves prowl the streets of abandoned cities. Only prostitutes are left to take care of the elderly. War is looming. This is 2013 and the global population is aging. These are only a few of the alarming anecdotes retold at a conference last week. Decades of policies to reduce the number of people on our […]

Demographics as the Grim Reaper
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Demographics as the Grim Reaper

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We live in an age unique in human history. Per capita incomes have never been higher, lifespans have never been longer, and people are better fed and educated than ever before. At the same time, birth rates have fallen to historically low levels. In fact, they have fallen to levels so low that they will […]

Eliminating People to Help People?
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Eliminating People to Help People?

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Can a “human-centered approach” to issues include policies with the express purpose of eliminating people? This argument is cropping up, particularly in debates over climate change and now health care. Hard-core believers of climate change have argued that a key way to reduce greenhouse gases is to reduce people. This was rejected most recently at Rio+20 when UNFPA and […]

Architect of Reproductive Rights Dies as Her Legacy Unravels
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Architect of Reproductive Rights Dies as Her Legacy Unravels

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Feminist Activist Joan Dunlop died last week at 78, just a week after her legacy of recasting international population control efforts as “reproductive rights” began to unravel. Dunlop was a protégé of John D. Rockefeller, III, who led the charge for international population control. His vision and large fortune established and set the agenda for institutions […]

One Million People View Video Series on Population Control
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One Million People View Video Series on Population Control

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In the summer of 2009, the Population Research Institute went out on a limb. We made a cartoon. It wasn’t a very long cartoon, only about a minute and a half—and the animation was deliberately minimalist. But it was clever, quick, and easy to watch. The music was original, cool, and jazzily low-key. It avoided […]

The Problem With the UN’s New Fertility Forecasts
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The Problem With the UN’s New Fertility Forecasts

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The UN has reversed a decade of speculation about a demographic winter in the West, and now says that every country will achieve replacement fertility by 2100 resulting in a global population of 10 billion. The problem is there is no basis for their turnabout.  UN agencies are hailing new numbers as evidence of overpopulation […]

The Real Population Bomb
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The Real Population Bomb

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In 1968, Stanford biologist Paul R. Erlich opened his bestselling book, “The Population Bomb,” with this declaration: “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can […]

Unfounded Population Fears Drive New UN Campaign
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Unfounded Population Fears Drive New UN Campaign

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Messaging tied to a major new UN campaign reveals that the catastrophic fears common among population experts in the past 40 years regarding overpopulation and global population growth never came to pass and are now obsolete given new global population realities. The pro-abortion UN Population Fund launched the 7 Billion Actions campaign this week on […]

UN Agency Calls for Population Reduction
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UN Agency Calls for Population Reduction

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A recent press release by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) declares that the world’s population will reach 7 billion people on October 21, 2011. According to PRI President Steven Mosher, while the release pays lip service to human achievements, it also makes a veiled demand for more population control. In the release, UNFPA’s Executive […]

Celebrate the Living, But Mourn the Dead
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Celebrate the Living, But Mourn the Dead

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The media is abuzz with news about humanity’s numbers. Sometime during the latter part of this year or early next year — the exact date is still a little fuzzy — there will be, for the first time in history, 7 billion people alive on the planet at the same time. Left-wing pundits are already […]

Sterilizing Those Pesky Humans: Earth Day with Paul Ehrlich
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Sterilizing Those Pesky Humans: Earth Day with Paul Ehrlich

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Every April 22 is Earth Day. As one who studies Soviet Russia, I can’t help notice that the day coincides with the birthday of Vladimir Lenin. The inaugural Earth Day occurred April 22, 1970, no less than Lenin’s birth centennial. This is most ironic. Lenin is a decaying symbol of central planning, which, regrettably, is […]