UN agency urges Group of Eight nations to address population issues
From the UN News Centre.
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The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) today called on the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations to prioritize population issues in its discussions of climate change and food security.
“Preventing unwanted pregnancies through voluntary family planning and guaranteeing people’s right to reproductive health can help slow population growth and moderate its environmental impact,” Safiye Çagar, UNFPA Director for Information and External Relations, told the some 70 legislators and representatives of international and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at the G8 International Parliamentarians’ Conference on Population and Sustainable Development in Tokyo.
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October 30th, 2008 at 10:14 am
For any course of action regarding human population growth to be effective, the underpinnings of population dynamics must be understood. The Wikipedia “Food Race” entry states “intensification of cultivation in response to population growth—-merely leads to still more population growth.” In other words, global increases in food production precipitates global population growth. This perspective has been pointed out in both the Japan Times (“Is growth driving us to oblivion?” April 23, 2008) and the Christian Science Monitor (“How to slow the population clock” July 03, 2006). A narrated movie / slide show at http://www.PanEarth.org clearly elucidates the impact of continuing the food race. It is imperative that we understand the long term impact of continually increasing food production.