Bolivia's Evo Morales: Capitalism and plastic no, Mother Earth and indigenous...
(First-hand report) At the People's World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, the consistent message is ecological, indigenous, communitarian and anti-corporate. The great...
View ArticleDissecting those ‘overpopulation’ numbers: part one – population where?
Is global warming caused by too many people? This begins a series of articles in which Climate & Capitalism editor Ian Angus shows that population numbers can conceal far more than they reveal.read...
View ArticleAsia's epic urban sagas
South Asians are seeing more work on the ground and hearing more policy announcements about urban development than ever before. For many who live in and around towns and cities in Bangladesh, Pakistan...
View ArticlePeak soil: it's like peak oil, only worse
Resource collapse is bigger than peak oil, and bigger even than the projected depletion of natural gas, coal and uranium – it encompasses each and every natural resource extracted, exploited or...
View ArticleResponse to “Who’s to blame for the population crisis?” in Mother Jones
Congratulations to Mother Jones for dedicating the cover of their May/June 2010 issue to the population crisis. I have worked in the population field for four decades, and since joining the movement in...
View ArticleHow green are the ‘childless by choice’?
Laura S. Scott has surveyed and interviewed more than 170 people for her Childless by Choice Project. "I'm keenly interested in the process of decision-making," she says. "How do we get from assuming...
View ArticleMissing the slums for the cities
Cities in Asia are hubs of production, innovation and wealth, funnelling into themselves immense resources, water, energy, food, drawing in from nearby districts and far-off provinces families and...
View ArticleDissecting those ‘overpopulation’ numbers: Part Two: the perils of per capita
Continuing our examination of the misuse (deliberate or not) of numbers and statistics by advocates of the "too many people" explanation of environmental destruction.read more
View ArticlePopulation growth must stop
Earth’s population is approaching seven billion at the same time that resource limits and environmental degradation are becoming more apparent every day...Resource scarcities, especially oil, are...
View ArticleNations & resources - July 15
-U.S. ads call for Alberta boycott-Population explosion scrutinised as scientists urge politicians to act-US Company Set to Ship Billions of Gallons of Water from Alaska to India-The Drowned Worldread...
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