JULY 25, 2019
LANCE OLSEN: NO ONE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT OVERPOPULATION BUT IT, ALONG WITH FOSSIL FUEL-DRIVEN ECONOMIC GROWTH AND RESOURCE CONSUMPTION, ARE SETTING US UP FOR A CRASH, HE SAYS by Lance Olsen
Map courtesy William H. Frey/Brookings Institution Robert Thomas Malthus wrote about it and so has a series of others, including Paul Ehrlich, Donella Meadows and many of her contemporaries,...
Jul 2, 2019 ADAIR TURNER, Project Syndicate
Our expanding ability to automate human work across all sectors – agriculture, industry, and services – makes an ever-growing workforce increasingly irrelevant to improvements in human welfare. That’s good news for most of the world, but not for Africa.
LONDON – Every two years, the United Nations issues its latest estimate of future population...
Laura Paddison, HuffPost |July 1, 2019
There’s a moment
in the evening when I go to check on my children in their beds. I stay and
watch them sleep for a while, enjoying their peaceful, steady breathing and the
rare stillness in their faces. I feel a wave of love for them but also a jab of
fear.
There were many
things I expected to experience when I became a parent. Love, a fierce...
By George Pyle. The Salt Lake Tribune
“Sure overpopulation is a problem. That’s why people should have lots of babies. Because one day, one of those babies is going to grow up and solve that problem.”
— Ted Baxter
In geometry, any two points make a line. In professional punditry, any three points constitute a meaningful trend.
• Point 1: Utah’s Sen. Mike Lee made a total fool of himself by standing...
By Thomas Burr, The Salt Lake Tribune, March 26, 2019
Washington • To poke fun at a liberal plan to tackle climate change, Sen. Mike Lee on Tuesday took to the Senate floor with a poster of President Ronald Reagan riding a dinosaur while firing a machine gun.
No joke.
The Utah Republican, a serious conservative not generally known for prop-supported political stunts, said his point was that the...
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