It's been almost two months since I've posted here. Triage has overwhelmed me; I have had work to do within the more immediate range of my family, and this takes precedence over population studies. I've managed to keep my toe in the door by continuing to collect online articles relating to population issues for analysis. Here is a recent one from the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/opinion/05kristof.html?_r=1
This blog is my way to gather and organize and refine my observations of the population problem, which is a unwieldy mass of interrelated issues.
I look forward to proceeding with my exploration and analysis of this mass.
4/20/09
David Attenborough weighs in on population
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6121737.ece
An excerpt:
“...there are three times as many people in the world as when I started making television programmes 56 years ago. It is frightening. We can’t go on as we have been. We are seeing the consequences in terms of eco-logy, atmospheric pollution and in terms of space and food production”.
He is the first to admit the problem is a thorny one. “Indeed; indeed it is,” he says, “but we can make sure women have the choice as to whether they have children. If you spread literacy, education, a decent standard of living, the population increase drops. That’s why the notion, the ability, to restrict population growth should be around.
I don’t believe women want to have 12 children where eight of them die, as they did in this country 150 years ago. Now they have a choice, and that is the reason we have an almost static population here – if you discount immigration.”
An excerpt:
“...there are three times as many people in the world as when I started making television programmes 56 years ago. It is frightening. We can’t go on as we have been. We are seeing the consequences in terms of eco-logy, atmospheric pollution and in terms of space and food production”.
He is the first to admit the problem is a thorny one. “Indeed; indeed it is,” he says, “but we can make sure women have the choice as to whether they have children. If you spread literacy, education, a decent standard of living, the population increase drops. That’s why the notion, the ability, to restrict population growth should be around.
I don’t believe women want to have 12 children where eight of them die, as they did in this country 150 years ago. Now they have a choice, and that is the reason we have an almost static population here – if you discount immigration.”
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