The Most Appropriate Response to Falling Birthrates? Embrace Them
As birthrates continue to decline in many industrialized countries, anxious governments are running out of schemes to keep women procreating.
‘Change is happening, it’s just painfully slow’
“Climate is our biggest war” says Ana Toni, chief executive of COP30. Hopes are high. Expectations are low.
New paper defends a pragmatic definition of overpopulation
Distinguishing ecologically sustainable from excessive human populations is necessary to understand humanity’s environmental challenges.
Why America has to confront the Vatican
An American confrontation with the Vatican over its anti-family-planning efforts is prerequisite to removal of this obstruction to the common good.
Why global environmental negotiations keep failing – and what we can do about it
The stakes are high. Every delay means more emissions. The world cannot afford negotiations that stall while ecosystems collapse.
Trump: Any doubt about his being in a bubble reality?
They persuasively argue that only if citizen voters keep engaging in a sharp bargaining with the behavior of their government will democracy survive.
Congress quits until after the midterms!!
We must urgently begin to address the looming problems that the Trump administration and the gutless GOP put America into.
Population growth has contributed 80% of ecological overshoot
The human enterprise is in overshoot, depleting essential ecosystems and polluting the ecosphere beyond nature’s assimilative capacity.
The dogma of papal infallibility
Papal infallibility means that the pope is incapable of error when he makes ex cathedra decisions on matters of faith and morals.
Climate Talks End With ‘Empty Deal’ That Fails on Forests, Finance, and Fossil Fuels
COP30 concluded on Saturday in Belém, Brazil with a deal that does not even include the words “fossil fuels”.

























