Comments on: Why the media doesn’t talk about population

By: Charles Wheeler

Charles Wheeler — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 06:11:48 +0000

I am not sure why the issue of abortion is coming up in a discussion about population control? Abortion is not really an efficient means of controlling the increase in population. To safely have an abortion requires a doctor and a clinic – neither of which is readily available to the poor in the areas where population growth is happening the fastest. It would be much easier, safer, and less controversial for governments to distribute condoms and birth control pills.

By: J. C.

J. C. — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:35:47 +0000

Most religions and tribes regard breeding as a means to increase their power.

By: Watch Documentaries Online

Watch Documentaries Online — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 07:20:32 +0000

here it is the paper http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/9/3/552.abstract

By: Documentaries

Documentaries — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:06:25 +0000

Nice article,
I have seen a scientific paper about simulation of population dynamics with differential equations, i will search for it and i will post it

By: Steve N.

Steve N. — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:44:13 +0000

Mike…it’s just so rare for politics and religion to actually be fatal in combination like in _Hokuto no Ken_ series or _Yentl_. Guaranteeing choices and botching the job is common; there are bad defaults. Almost nobody’s fronting the bumpless career-optimized motherhood track in the US; or genital tubing that performs great but is set to not conceive for 15-year windows (surgically); medical research libraries for laity; or cryogenic options and calls (leverage limits, etc.) It’s slacking governance and our thin tentative words for congress are to blame.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:29:08 +0000

Population and pollution; the two go together. The last 300 years of industrialisation and globalisation have served only to accelerate the already unsustainable exponential growth of people and the waste products created therefrom and thereby. In a minute fraction of geological time, man has had more impact on ecosystems than at any other period in history. We cannot turn back the clock; man’s fate was sealed as soon as we discovered that we could improve our survival at the cost of denying the survival of something else, be it animal, vegetable, or mineral. Serious scientific debate will produce solutions, but only in those advanced societies which have avoided the fatal commingling of politics and religion……………

By: Peter Van Zant

Peter Van Zant — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:01:04 +0000

The main reason–I think–that we don’t talk about population is that we get into too much wrangling with churches (especially Roman Catholic), that the world economic system is predicated on growth, and that different racial and ethnic groups are breeding competitively for power. That’s why population control advocates are accused of having genocidal ambitions.

By: lee wells

lee wells — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:35:53 +0000

we can choose to talk about abortion or we can wait till nature aborts us.

The choice is ours.

By: aprud

aprud — Mon, 31 May 2010 22:29:23 +0000

“The broader issue of sex is taboo”. Is it really? Have you turned on your tv or radio lately? From what I see on a daily basis, talking about education, poverty and “certain communities” is the actual taboo. Sex is the soup de jour.

By: Chris Bystroff

Chris Bystroff — Mon, 31 May 2010 19:28:18 +0000

Deborah–
This is a reply to a 6-month old comment on earthsky.org.
Yes, at least this biologist believes there is a way out of the dilemma. Talk about the inadequacies of today’s contraceptives. Better contraceptives will certainly lead to fewer abortions, since fewer pregnancies will be unintended.