Many thanks to Matthew Stein for his May 20, 2010 Huffington Post article.
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There are dark clouds gathering on the horizon. They are the clouds of six hugely troubling global trends, climate change being just one of the six. Individually, each of these trends is a potential civilization buster. Collectively, they are converging to form the perfect storm-a storm of such magnitude that it will dwarf anything that mankind has ever seen. If we are unsuccessful in our attempts to calm this storm, without a doubt it will destroy life as we know it on Planet Earth!

There is a popular saying that “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result.” If we keep doing business in the same way as we have for the past century, each of these six trends will continue their steep rates of decline, collapsing the natural systems that form the foundation for our civilization and the lifeblood of the global economy.

For full article, visit:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-stein/the-perfect-storm-six-tre_b_582779.html

Below is a book review of David Poindexters book, Out of the Darkness of Centuries. The review is written by Jane Roberts’ of RH Reality Check.

http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/reader-diaries/2010/07/21/darkness-centuries-book-review
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You really can change outlook and behavior by scientifically based entertainment-education through the media, primarily radio and television. That is the premise of David O. Poindexter’s book Out of the Darkness of Centuries, a PMC (Population Media Center) book by the founder of Population Communication International and now emeritus member of the Board for PMC.
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Thanks to Fred Elbel for this link to a March 30 BBC interview with Professor James Lovelock regarding his view on population and climate change. You can find the 8-minute clip at http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8594000/8594274.stm.

Thanks to Joe Bish for this article from USA Today.
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Humans should have fewer babies to help mitigate climate change, argue scientists including well-known conservationist Jane Goodall.

“It’s our population growth that underlies just about every single one of the problems that we’ve inflicted on the planet. If there were just a few of us, then the nasty things we do wouldn’t really matter and Mother Nature would take care of it — but there are so many of us,” the 75-year-old English scientist told Agence France-Press in an interview.

“We should be talking about somehow curtailing human population growth,” said Goodall, a United Nations Messenger of Peace, whose 1960s research on chimpanzees altered views on the relationships between humans and animals. “It’s very frustrating as people don’t want to address this topic.”

For full article, visit:
http://content.usatoday.com/communities

Many thanks to Roger Martin for the attached policy brief on population from Save the Children-UK. See http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/54_10773.htm or download the document from https://docs.google.com/a/populationmedia.org/leaf?id=0B5F-idWfw7TeNzFlY2RhN2YtMDE4ZC00MTFiLTg5ZDQtNGJiZDBmNGU0Nzg0&hl=en&authkey=CJKX2O0I

Thanks to Ed Barry for this very interesting article by John Harte, which you can download at https://docs.google.com/a/populationmedia.org/leaf?id=0B5F-idWfw7TeYzM3MWM5YTQtN2VjZC00ZDY1LTg0YjYtOWIzZWY3NTUzMGI1&hl=en&authkey=CI2r79EI

Many thanks to Gary Peters for his paper, “Population, Resources, and Environment: ‘Beyond the Exponentials’ Revisited,” which you can download at https://docs.google.com/a/populationmedia.org/leaf?id=0B5F-idWfw7TeMDIyNjAwMTMtNzlhNC00MzI2LWI3N2ItZTA5OTM5ZjE2ODY0&hl=en&authkey=CKXAlawC

It was recently published in the California Geographer.

This report presents the methodologies used to produce updated and improved global estimates of the resource requirements to achieve the objectives of the ICPD and MDGs, taking the estimates developed in 1994 as the departure point.

The text describes the methodology used in calculating the 1994 estimates. It also reviews the new sexual and reproductive initiatives and data sources. It includes a discussion of the assumptions behind costing these interventions, as well as methodological constraints and shortcomings. Details of the methodology are presented, together with the estimated costs in summary form. For costs related to HIV and AIDS, UNAIDS new estimates are considered. Finally, the results for the fourth component (basic data, research and policy) is estimated taking into account the 2010 round of censuses.

http://www.unfpa.org/webdav/site/global/shared/documents/publications/2010/Revised_Costing_ICPD.pdf

This report is intended to be a tool for donor and developing country Governments, multilateral organizations and agencies, private foundations and NGOs to monitor progress in achieving the financial resource targets agreed to at the ICPD. Development cooperation officers and policy makers in developing countries can use the report to identify the domestically generated resources and complementary resources from donors needed to finance population and reproductive health programmes.

https://www.unfpa.org/webdav.pdf
(Publication Date:2009)

Thanks to Bob Walker for this information from PAI.
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Funding Common Ground: Cost Estimates for International Reproductive Health
There are over a dozen estimates of the financial resources needed to improve reproductive health used by the reproductive health community. Lack of understanding of estimates currently in circulation can lead to fragmented advocacy and weak financial prioritization of reproductive health. Population Action International is releasing a report, Funding Common Ground: Cost Estimates for International Reproductive Health to help advocates and policymakers better understand the funding needed to achieve the ICPD and MDG goal of universal access to reproductive health. A clear sense of financial requirements is essential to carry out policy advocacy and plan to fulfill unmet needs.

For full article, visit:
http://www.populationaction.org.pdf