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Population Growth ’
May 14th, 2020 |
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By Suzanne York. We could call it the “COVID-19 void” or some such name, the period when so many important issues, reports, conferences and more fell to the wayside due to the overwhelming need to deal with the novel coronavirus. One such report was released last month that didn’t seem to garner much attention, which
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Tags: Climate Change, Commission for the Human Future, extinction, Population Growth
Mar 2nd, 2020 |
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By Geoffrey Holland, guest writer. Recently, the great renaissance city of Venice, Italy flooded yet again. It is happening ever more frequently. Each time it happens, it seems to get worse. What is happening to Venice provides a foreboding glimpse of what will likely become a permanent condition in many of our Earth’s coastal cities
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Tags: Climate Change, extinction, gender, Green New Deal, media, methane, Population Growth
Jan 21st, 2020 |
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By Suzanne York. The new year kicked off with a lot of coverage of extinction, mostly due to the tragedy in Australia. Television news programs, newspapers and social media are awash in reports of the devastating impact of Australia’s raging fires on its enigmatic species. The images of koalas, kangaroos and wallabies burning are tragic
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Posted in Biodiversity/Conservation |
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Tags: biodiversity loss, Climate Change, Davos, global economy, Population Growth, UN
Nov 15th, 2019 |
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By Suzanne York. As New Delhi chokes from off-the-charts air pollution levels, parts of Australia, Brazil and California burn, and countries in Europe flood, a timely warning on climate change from some 11,000 scientists was released. The scientists’ alarm was first sounded 40 years ago and in most years since then. But too many people have
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Posted in Climate Change |
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Tags: economic growth, Family Planning, human rights, Population Growth, rights of nature
Sep 25th, 2019 |
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By Suzanne York, Transition Earth. Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg addressed the U.N. Climate Action Summit in New York City this week. She’s gotten a lot of press and focused much attention on climate issues. Which is a good thing, given that the Northern Hemisphere, which holds 90 percent of the world’s population, had the
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Tags: Climate Change, economic growth, extinction, Population Growth, sixth mass extinction
Sep 4th, 2019 |
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By Geoffrey Holland, guest writer for Transition Earth. Have you noticed? For the last several thousands of years, virtually every person historically remembered – good, bad, or ugly – is of the male gender. The record shows that for all that time, human life on Earth has been dominated by men. The Bible, the Koran,
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Tags: Climate Change, gender, male domination, planetary health, Population Growth, Riane Eisler, women's rights
Jul 10th, 2019 |
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By Suzanne York, Transition Earth. World Population Day (July 11th) is a special day of recognition that most people are either unaware of, or want to ignore. After all, discussing population growth is still often considered taboo. Yet we are at the point where it needs to be made more of a major issue. The terrible
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Posted in Biodiversity/Conservation, Other Resources |
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Tags: extinction, Family Planning, Population Growth, rights of nature, women's rights, World Population Day
Jul 1st, 2019 |
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By Geoffrey Holland, guest writer for Transition Earth. [Editor’s Note: This article was originally published with The Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere] A thoughtful examination of human history, boils down, more or less, to two steps forward, one step back. There is no written record of our beginnings. For most of our history,
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Posted in Biodiversity/Conservation |
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Tags: Anthropocene, extinction, planetary health, Population Growth, sustainability
Mar 13th, 2019 |
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By Art Elphick, guest writer. There is no shortage of thought on the rate of global population growth. What follows below is a brief analysis of whether United Nations projections are valid or of course, as well as questioning whether continued growth on a finite planet is truly feasible or beneficial. 1) Max Roser’s Assessment
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Tags: economic growth, Empty Planet, Population Growth, population projections
Jul 11th, 2018 |
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By Suzanne York. Unless you’ve been off the grid, chances are that you are at least somewhat aware of the battle taking place in the U.S. over reproductive rights. With a potential new conservative Supreme Court justice poised to join the court, it is a dire time indeed for those who support women’s health and
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Posted in Other Resources, Reproductive Rights/Women's Rights |
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Tags: Family Planning, Population Growth, reproductive health, World Population Day