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Population is ‘our biggest challenge’ says UK government chief scientist Sir John Beddington

Posted by N4CM Population Stress 15 Feb 2012

Source: The Ecologist. While many commentators look ahead to 9 billion by 2050 there is a more immediate statistic that ‘frightens’ the UK government’s chief scientist: 1 billion extra people in the next 13 years. Speaking at a WWF event last week, which looked ahead to the Rio+20 conference in June, John Beddington told an audience that half of that population increase would come from Asia and most of the other half from Africa.

Vatican control of World Health Organization population policy: an interview with Milton P. Siegel

Posted by N4CM Media, Videos 24 Jan 2012

This interview with Dr Milton P. Siegel, who for 24 years was the assistant director general of the World Health Organization, was recorded in 1993 by Dr Stephen D. Mumford, President of the Center for Research on Population and Security. This is the first time that it has been made available to the public. [...]

Sex, Ideology and Religion: 10 myths about world population growth

Posted by N4CM Papers 29 Dec 2011

In 1804 there were 1 billion people in the world, in 1960 3 billion people and this year on the 31st October the world population reached 7 billion. The world population continues to grow with about 78 million people every year, more than the entire population of the UK. This new Paper on Sex, Ideology and Religion: 10 Myths about Population Growth produced by Richard Ottaway MP and Genevieve Hutchinson [...]

World’s future is a crowded place

Posted by N4CM Features, Futurism, Population Stress 10 May 2011

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald. Later this year, the world will mark a population milestone with the birth of its 7 billionth citizen. Statistically, that baby is likely to be a boy, delivered in a rural area of India, the country with the highest number of births a year – about one in five of all arrivals. The planet’s population peak is still some way off; another 2 billion or even 3 billion will have been added by mid-century.

Smart Planning for the Global Family

Posted by N4CM Population Stress, Top Stories 9 May 2011

Source: IPS. When it comes to population growth, the United Nations has three primary projections. The medium projection, the one most commonly used, has world population reaching 9.2 billion by 2050. The high one reaches 10.5 billion. The low projection, which assumes that the world will quickly move below replacement-level fertility, has population peaking at 8 billion in 2042 and then declining.

The Future Faces of War: Population and National Security

Posted by N4CM Population Stress 31 Mar 2011

Source: The New Security Beat. “Demographic trends by themselves are neither inherently good nor bad. It’s really a state’s ability to address these issues that can determine the outcome,” said Jennifer Dabbs Sciubba, the Mellon Environmental Fellow with the Department of International Studies at Rhodes College. At a book launch event at the Wilson Center on March 14 for The Future Faces of War: Population [...]

Turning Up the Water Pressure

Posted by N4CM Population Stress 18 Jan 2011

Source: The New Security Beat. In a world that is increasingly connected by the forces of cultural, economic, and environmental globalization, the future of the United States is intertwined with that of India. Much of this shared fate stems from global resource scarcity. New population-driven demands for food and energy production will increase pressure on the world’s power-generating and agricultural capabilities.

The Great Food Crisis of 2011

Posted by N4CM Population Stress 18 Jan 2011

Source: Foreign Policy. As the new year begins, the price of wheat is setting an all-time high in the United Kingdom. Food riots are spreading across Algeria. Russia is importing grain to sustain its cattle herds until spring grazing begins. India is wrestling with an 18-percent annual food inflation rate, sparking protests. China is looking abroad for potentially massive quantities of wheat and corn.

New Insights Into the Population Growth Factor in Development

Posted by N4CM Debates, Population Stress 7 Jan 2011

Source: The New Security Beat. “We have not found any country that has developed or gotten out of poverty while maintaining high birth rates,” said Martha Campbell, president of Venture Strategies for Health and Development. “Family planning is not a cost to a Ministry of Finance – it’s an investment,” said Malcolm Potts of the University of California Berkeley. Campbell and Potts were joined by panelists Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu, [...]

Can Condoms Curb Climate Change?

Posted by N4CM Climate change, News, Reproductive health 19 Nov 2010

Source: Time, 19 November 2010. Family planning, an important but often overlooked idea in the expanding arsenal of policy needed to address global warming, is the subject of a new report released by the Worldwatch Institute this week. It’s not a new concept — the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change considers population growth to be [...]