— Monday, August 26, 2019. For immediate release.
The Utah Population and Environment Council (UPEC) announces the immediate release of its new white paper: “Utah’s Fertility Decline: Richer Lives for All.”
Hannah Evans will explore the connections between population growth, access to comprehensive healthcare, and environmental sustainability. Through an examination of some of the root causes of population growth, she will highlight the links between poverty, marginalization, women’s rights, and environmental pressures made worse by climate change. Hannah will argue that global development is predicated...
Laurie Mazur wrote this article for YES! Magazine
So how many people can the planet really support?
Originally posted in Yes! Magazine by Laurie Mazur on Mar 22, 2016
How many people can the Earth support? It’s a question that’s been asked for centuries, generating wildly divergent answers—from less than a billion to more than a trillion. Today, the question arises with new urgency as we contemplate...
Orignaly written in Nature Jornal by John Bongaarts
Within a decade, women everywhere should have access to quality contraceptive services, argues John Bongaarts.
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Oshodi market in Lagos.
In 2100, our planet is expected to be home to 11.2 billion people. That’s a more than 50% increase on today’s 7.3 billion1. This expansion of humanity is likely to be spread...
Re-posted from The Guardian
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