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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

It's Time to Fight Population Growth, Which Exacerbates Global Warming and Sprawl

AlterNet Envirohealth
By Katha Pollitt, The Nation. Posted April 9, 2007

It's ridiculous that we don't fight attempts to promote population growth while we wring our hands over global warming, species loss and suburban sprawl.

...When we think of overpopulation the usual image is of some teeming Third World slum, and indeed most population growth will come in the developing world. But actually it's the developed world that's doing the earth in. Every American uses as much energy as forty-eight Bangladeshis, and as many resources as an African village...

CIA country birthrate rankings

The article and comments were interesting to me.

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