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Home: Current Issues: Population: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Population: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Population and Poverty - Michael MillerAmid the hoopla surrounding the resignation of World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz, few noticed another battle going on within the World Bank on the question of population. Email This Article Population and the Wealth of Nations - William McGurnIn my own profession of journalism it is common enough to deride economists as practitioners of the "dismal science." Yet in most cases it is the economists who have maintained faith in human ingenuity and initiative and who have rejected counsels of despair and control. The majority of them have never been found on the front lines of the movement for population control. Email This Article Population Control Bibliography - RESOURCE ABSTRACTA bibliography of resources on population, human rights abuses, and the history of population control. Email This Article Population Control – The Kenyan Perspective - Dr. Stephen K. KaranjaI am a practicing gynecologist in Kenya and I would like to share with you facts about some of the patients I see daily: A mother brings a child to me with pneumonia, but I had not penicillin to give the child. What I have in the stores are cases of contraceptives. Malaria is epidemic in Kenya. Mothers die from this disease every day because there is no chloroquine, when instead we have huge stockpiles of contraceptives. These mothers come to me and I am helpless. Email This Article Population Politics and the Shambles of Africa - Jim PeronPeople often argue that countries are poor because they have too many people and not enough resources. If there are too many people, then each newborn is a threat to every other human being and population control policies are needed. But this logic just doesn't hold for Africa. Email This Article Secular Media are Noticing Emerging Depopulation Scare - AUSTIN RUSEIn recent months major media outlets in the United States have begun relating the hardships many nations now face because of fertility reduction. Email This Article Shakespeare On Babies: The Bard makes a case against childlessness - DAVID MORRISONWhile the percentage of people choosing only one, two or no children may have reached its high point in the contemporary developed world, there is evidence that the conflict over whether to have large or small families is centuries old, at least in England. Email This Article Social Stability in the United States - PATRICK FAGANThird world countries around the globe are now being pressured into adopting US population policy even though those very policies have, in the US, resulted in untold suffering, in terms of alienation and internal disintegration. Email This Article The Barrenness of Success - STEVE W. MOSHERThe muffled explosions you hear are the sounds of European populations crashing. Email This Article The bomb that fizzled - BEN WATTENBERGBy having relatively few children, people today are eroding the population base that should pay for their pensions in their old age. Email This Article Related Categories:
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