Population & Environment: a Progressive, Feminist Approach

TruthOut, On the Issues by Laurie Mazur | Nov. 23, 2009 (Opinion)

If we take seriously the need to protect the planet and distribute its resources more equitably, it becomes clear that it would be easier to provide a good life—at less environmental cost—for 8 billion rather than 11 billion people. This is especially true for climate change: an analysis by Brian O'Neill at the National Center for Atmospheric Research estimates that stabilizing world population at 8 billion, rather than 9 billion or more, would ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Nov 23, 2009 - 2:09 AM PST
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Edited by: Dwight Rousu - Nov 23, 2009 - 2:14 AM PST

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Chris Finnie
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 by Chris Finnie - Nov. 23, 2009

Both this article and the one it's responding to are sort of frustrating. Both contain valid viewpoints and references to respected information sources. But neither manage to make a convincing argument. Mazur might have been better off to have done a standalone argument instead of referencing Hartmann's piece. A more measured tone and more facts to support her arguments would also have helped.

This is a contentious issue and one that brings up old, bad memories of countries that have done it badly. But it is an important one that I'm glad people are finally discussing. Even if I could wish for a bit less heat and more reason.

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Dwight Rousu
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 by Dwight Rousu - Nov. 23, 2009

Strange. With population threatening a great extinction and global climate change and mass starvation, she treats "population control" as a dirty word.

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