[deep sigh]
I'm not quite sure what the agenda of Demographic Winter is - its certainly not looking at the science presented by everyone from demographers (world population will be DECLINING by 2040?!?) to biologists to climatologists...I think any reasonable person would agree that addressing population must happen sensitively and fairly (forced sterilisations, infanticide etc are unacceptable). How we will meet the needs of an ageing population is a serious question for the political economy - but didn't we humans invent the political economy? Can't we shape it to meet our needs? I almost laughed out loud with the disparaging reference to The Population Bomb: 'they keep saying these famines are going to happen, and they don't happen...' - really? Tell Africa. Just because its not part of the lives of well-off suburbanites doesn't mean its not happening, and for a large part of the world's population who live with, or on the edge of hunger in a perpetual state of food insecurity.
End Extreme Poverty
Ultimately, population does - absolutely - need to be addressed.
If we do not, it will be done for us by the laws of physics. So we had better get on with it!
www.footprintnetwork.org
www.steadystate.org
www.globalpovertyproject.com
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