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Are We in the Midst of a Sixth Mass Extinction?

Sun, 06 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Richard Pearson - May. 06 (Special Report) - NEARLY 20,000 species of animals and plants around the globe are considered high risks for extinction in the wild. That's according to the most authoritative compilation of living things at risk - the so-called Red List maintained by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. This should keep us awake at night

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Earth faces a century of disasters, report warns

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By John Vidal - Apr. 26 (News Report) - Economic and environmental catastrophes unavoidable unless rich countries cut consumption and global population stabilises World population needs to be stabilised quickly and high consumption in rich countries rapidly reduced to avoid "a downward spiral of economic and environmental ills", warns a major report from the Royal Society . Contraception must be offered to all women who want it and consumption cut to reduce inequality, says the study published on Thursday, which was chaired by Nobel prize-winning biologist Sir John Sulston . The assessment of humanity's prospects in the next 100 years, which has taken 21 months to complete, argues strongly that to achieve long and healthy lives for all 9 billion people expected to be living in 2050, the twin issues of population and consumption must pushed to the top of political and economic agendas. Both issues have been largely ignored by politicians and played down by environment and development groups for 20 years, the report says. "The ...

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Latino or Hispanic? For many Americans, neither feels quite right

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By By Paloma Esquivel - Apr. 05 (News) - Nearly half of those polled said they consider themselves a "typical American," while the same percentage said they are "very different from the typical American."

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Winds of change brewing

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Sydney Morning Herald - By Jo Chandler - Mar. 31 (News Report) - Beddington argues, pragmatically, that while much is uncertain about the longer-term, the challenges of the next 20 years are clear: population growth (another billion people by 2025); urbanisation; and climate change as a consequence of the greenhouse

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Breasts Yes, Vaginas No? Race for the Cure Group's Bizarre Capitulation to Right-Wingers (And How to Hit Them Where it Hurts)

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Amanda Marcotte - Feb. 01 (News Report) - Despite Komen’s lame attempts to claim otherwise, it was widely understood that this was about Komen aligning itself with the anti-choice movement, despite the anti-choice movement’s long history of opposing not just safe and legal abortion, but also access to contraception and even the prevention of cervical cancer through the use of the HPV vaccine.

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The Birth Control Solution

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Nicholas D. Kristof - Nov. 03 (Opinion) - Family planning is crucial to solving poverty, climate change and other issues. And don’t worry: contraceptives don’t cause sex.

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How Christian Fundamentalism Helped Empower the Top 1% to Exploit the 99% | Occupy Wall Street

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - Oct. 15 (Opinion) - As the Occupy Wall street movement spreads across the country and the world, we must bring attention to the enablers of the top 1 percent exploiting the 99. Fundamentalist religion made this exploitation possible. Evangelical fundamentalism helped empower the top 1 percent. Note I didn't say religion per se, but religious fundamentalism. Why? Because without the fundamentalists and their "values" issues, many in the lower 99 percent could not have been convinced to vote against their (our) economic self-interest; in other words, vote for Republicans who only serve billionaires. Wall Street is a great target for long-overdue protest, but so are the centers of religious power that are the gatekeepers of Republican Party "values" voters that make the continuing economic exploitation possible.

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My Life as a Daughter in the Christian Patriarchy Movement -- How I Was Taught to Obey Men, Birth 8 Kids and Do Battle Against Secular America | Tea Party and the Right

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Libby Anne - Sep. 16 (Special Report) - Deep within America, beyond your typical evangelicals and run-of-the-mill fundamentalists, nurtured within the homeschool movement and growing by the day, are the Christian Patriarchy and Quiverfull movements. This is where I grew up.

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Almost everything is getting better

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Long Now Foudation - By Kirk Citron - Aug. 10 (News Report) - Last week The Millennium Project released its 02011 State Of The Future report, looking at trends for the past twenty years and projecting ahead for the next decade. (Not the 10,000 year future, but still of interest.) You can read an executive summary of the report here. While the report finds many things to worry about – global warming, terrorism, corruption – overall the trends are surprisingly hopeful, as shown in their chart called “Where we are winning”

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The extreme future of megacities

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

significancemagazine.org - By James Canton - Jul. 01 (Special Report) - Like it or not, the megacity is coming, says James Canton. Will it be urban dystopia, or ordered, smart, green and secure? As a billion rural dwellers vote with their feet, will numbers overwhelm us?

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The ungreen city — or the polluting countryside?

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

significancemagazine.org - By Chris Smaje - Jul. 01 (Investigative Report) - City‐dwellers have public transport, efficient buildings and services, everything near at hand; their country cousins travel by car and their services have to be brought long distances. City living damages the planet less. So says the new orthodoxy — but is it true?Chris Smaje asks if cities are really greener.

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Child Brides

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

National Geographic - By Cynthia Gorney - Jun. 21 (Special Report) - Too Young to Wed: The bride may be 14, 10, 5. The practice of child marriage is illegal—yet still thrives.

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Cry Me a River

Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

populationconnection.org - By Stacie Murphy - May. 10 (Special Report) - Since the current legislative session started on January 5th, John Boehner's House of Representatives has never missed an opportunity to attack reproductive rights and access to family Planning ---often in jaw-dropping fashion.

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UN astounded by rate of population growth

Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

populationconnection.org - By Tanya Nolan - May. 10 (News) - The United Nations says the world's population is growing faster than expected and predicts it will hit seven billion by the end of this year. That's an increase of one billion people in just 12 years. And the UN warns there are particular risks for Africa where the population is expected to triple by the end of the century, exacerbating problems of access to food and clean water.

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Population: One Planet, Too Many People?

Sun, 01 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

imeche.org - May. 01 (Special Report) - By 2100, the global human population may reach 9.5 billion with 75% of these people located within urban settlements. Meeting the needs and demands of these people will provide significant challenges to governments and society at large, and the engineering profession in particular. Four key areas in which population growth and expanding affluence will significantly challenge society are: food, water, urbanisation and energy.

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Census Bureau briefing

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Michael Martinez, David Ariosto - Mar. 24 (News Report) - The growing Hispanic population in the United States has reached a new milestone, topping 50 million, or 16.3% of the nation, officially solidifying its position as the country's second-largest group, U.S. Census Bureau officials said Thursday. "Overall, we've learned that our nation's population has become more racially and ethnically diverse over the past 10 years," Nicholas A. Jones, chief of the bureau's racial statistics branch, told reporters.

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Food, demography are invisible drivers in Egypt uprising (AFP)

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Agence France-Presse - By Richard Ingham - Feb. 13 (News Analysis) - Huge population growth and food insecurity count among the factors that fuelled the revolution in Egypt and serve as a caution for other countries facing human and environmental overload, say analysts.

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Egypt has a population crisis as well as a democracy crisis

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Grist - By Lisa Hymas. - Feb. 06 (Special Report) - Hosni Mubarak is a dictator who has to go—that’s obviously the animating force behind the protests in Egypt. And more power to the protesters! But Egypt’s problems run much deeper than its autocratic regime, and one of its biggest problems is unsustainable population growth. Here’s a 2009 Al Jazeera report on population pressures in Egypt: The country’s populace has soared from 44 million when Mubarak took power in 1981 to more than 80 million today, making Egypt by far the most populous country in the Middle East and the Arab world. And Egyptians are densely concentrated, living in a narrow band along the Nile, as the rest of the country is dry and largely uninhabitable. If Egypt’s current growth rate continues, its population could hit 160 million by 2050 . The Mubarak regime has promoted birth control and smaller families , and helped to slow the birthrate. In 1981, the average woman had more than five children ; now that figure ...

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Bad Times Help Rust Belt Retain Power

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Emily Badger - Nov. 24 (News Report) - A better economy saw people leaving the Midwest and Northeast in droves, taking their votes with them. But bad times mean they stay put — just in time for redistricting.

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Girl Power Lacking in India

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

populationconnection.org - By Alexis Katzelnick-Wise - Oct. 01 (Special Report) - With more than twice the number of girls as boys living at the orphanage, the gender disparity smacked me in the face each morning when I arrived at my post. Girls are simply viewed as too expensive to raise, even (and sometimes, especially) by middle and upper class families. Dowries and weddings are so costly that girls are seen as living liabilities. By contrast, boys grow up to provide for their parents, inherit land, and carry on the family name. It is customary for brides to join their husbands’ families, so parents of girls do not typically receive financial help or caretaking benefits from their daughters in old age. With the growth of ultrasound technology in India, the door to sex selective parenting has been flung open

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DoH to promote ‘natural,’ ‘artificial’ methods of family planning

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Inquirer.net - By DJ Yap - Sep. 30 (News Report) - The Department of Health (DoH) Wednesday said it would actively promote both “natural” and “artificial” methods of family planning, following President Benigno Aquino III’s remarks that he supported the use of contraceptives. “Both will be actively promoted,” Health Secretary Enrique Ona said at a press conference at the DoH central office.

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Women's rights are the right way to approach the population

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Grist - By Lisa Hymas - Jun. 30 (Interview) - Suzanne Ehlers, the new 36-year-old president of Population Action International, likes to talk about "the magic of family planning." If you give women around the world contraceptive tools and information, they'll limit the size of their families of their own free choice, and that makes their families healthier, wealthier, and better able to thrive in a climate-changed world.

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Population: The Last Taboo

Thu, 13 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Julia Whitty - May. 13 (Special Report) - The only known solution to ecological overshoot is to decelerate our population growth faster than it's decelerating now and eventually reverse it—at the same time we slow and eventually reverse the rate at which we consume the planet's resources. Success in these twin endeavors will crack our most pressing global issues: climate change, food scarcity, water supplies, immigration, health care, biodiversity loss, even war. On one front, we've already made unprecedented strides, reducing global fertility from an average 4.92 children per woman in 1950 to 2.56 today—an accomplishment of trial and sometimes brutally coercive error, but also a result of one woman at a time making her individual choices. The speed of this childbearing revolution, swimming hard against biological programming, rates as perhaps our greatest collective feat to date.

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Prison-Based Gerrymandering Creates Phantom Voters

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Yana Kunichoff - Apr. 11 (Special Report) - Anyone who is in prison on the first of April, 2010, will remain there for the next ten years - according to the US census . When the census counts prison populations, it counts them as residents of the towns in which they are incarcerated, not the communities they left and will most likely return to. With more than 2 million people currently incarcerated, advocates say this turns prisoners, who in most states cannot vote, into phantom voters.

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Overpopulation and Climate Change

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Arthur H. Westing - Feb. 17 (Opinion) - With the continuing failure of governments to reach agreements on combating climate change, the outlook for both humans and nature remains bleak. And nowhere is the failure more conspicuous than in the avoidance of the subject of population growth. Population is a double-barreled environmental problem — not only is population increasing; so are emissions per capita.

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