Royal Society: ‘People and the Planet’ Report
The Royal Society, the UK’s 350-year old academy of science, issued a report today calling for ‘a more equitable future for humanity’. The 134-page People and the Planet report highlights the rapid...
View ArticleBjørn Lomborg: Environmental Alarmism, Then and Now
BJORN LOMBORG WRITES IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS: The Club of Rome’s Problem — and Ours. Forty years ago, humanity was warned: by chasing ever-greater economic growth, it was sentencing itself to catastrophe....
View ArticleBook Review: ‘World Population Policies’ Offers Sweeping Overview of a...
ELIZABETH LEAHY MADSEN REVIEWS JOHN MAY’S NEW BOOK ‘WORLD POPULATION POLICIES’ FOR THE WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS: With much attention in the international family planning...
View ArticleWhy Is Brazil the New America? Hint: Water
Brazil is the world’s superpower of water, writes JAMES DALE DAVIDSON in the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: If you would like to get a firsthand peek at the bright future of Brazil, but you don’t have...
View ArticleRise of the Rest: A Vision Deferred
Changing demographics and the commodities crash have slowed down the development of poorer countries. Perhaps it all started with a turn in China’s demographics. Demand growth for commodities has...
View ArticleThe Relationship Between Fertility and National Income
We all heard that “demography is destiny”. But how many of us truly believe it? If demography was destiny, the world would look very different today. The two demographic giants China and India would be...
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