Ann O’Connell – Utah Population & Environment Council

Are There Too Many Humans or Too Many Cows?

It is common knowledge that the Colorado River and the Great Salt Lake are running out of water, at least in the sense that humans are diverting too much waterContinue reading “Are There Too Many Humans or Too Many Cows?”

The Green Revolution – A False Promise –

pair of hands coming from both ends of the image, from the left, a pair of hands holding the globe, from the right, a pair of hands holding a tree.

In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Norman Borlaug, the agronomist who developed a more productive and sturdier wheat warned us that he had only given us a pause in theContinue reading “The Green Revolution – A False Promise – “

Abort the Polluting Port!

UPEC (the Utah Population and Environment Council) was founded in 1997 because we (and I was among the founders) despaired that Utah leaders were failing to recognize how continued rapidContinue reading “Abort the Polluting Port!”