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I find it pleasing that two news pieces regarding population control efforts have caught my eye one after the other during the past few days, though I’m sure nearly all human rights activists are appalled by both of them. This time, it’s about the authorities from Puning county, Guangdong Province, China, who are so determined […]

Certain activist sites are in an uproar for the past few days because, they claim, women are forced to have hysterectomies in Uzbekistan, as the country’s authorities are desperate to curb its excessive population. However, after looking for something that I believe to be a reliable report about the situation, I really have to say […]

It’s Global Population Speak Out time again and, unlike last year, this time around I plan to keep it relatively short and simple. Imagine that we’re sitting down and having a little chat during which I’m trying to explain just why is overpopulation such a huge problem. But first I’m going to ask you to […]

Yesterday I received a notification from John Feeney, the founder of Global Population Speak Out, announcing that the Population Institute will administer Global Population Speak Out 2010, so I want to post a little rant about getting the media to cover the problem of overpopulation, and to do so properly. It’s true that I say […]

A couple of days ago, while still thinking about what I should write in this post, I started reading a magazine. I won’t name it, but I’ll say that something about the magazine in question made me send them an e-mail wondering about the way in which controversial issues are approached. In turn, that made […]