Thanks to Phil Kreitner for alerting me to this editorial by Jack Hart at OregonLive.com.
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On Monday The Oregonian’s editorial board sounded a call to “The duty to remember genocide,” a plea for relieving the tragedy of Darfur. “What more needs to be understood about Darfur,” the editorial proclaimed, “than that millions of vulnerable people are defenseless against violence and deprivation, all because of a second-tier despot in Khartoum?”

Well, quite a bit, actually.

And so long as we go on thinking that terrible conflicts like the civil war in the Sudan are simply the whims of tin-pot dictators, we’ll stand by while Darfur repeats itself time and again throughout the world.

For full article, visit:
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/06/

Thanks to Don Collins for this OpEd.
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My late father always cautioned me never to get into a vigorous debate with a skunk. So for most of my life as columnist, I have moderated my penned language, trying to stick to the facts, hoping opposition to my views will result in reasonable dialogue.

Why not? Wasn’t America built on such principles? The marketplace for ideas and opinions has long been a benchmark phrase in my mind. Let the best ideas and reasoned debate govern outcomes.

For full article, visit:
http://www.vdare.com/asp/printPage.asp

Thanks to Joyce Tarnow for this editorial.
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ABC’s new comedy, “The Goode Family,” (which moves from Wednesdays to 8:30 p.m. Fridays this week) mocks environmentalist excesses with its biting portrayal of vegan dogs, hybrid cars, white guilt and cries of “What Would Al Gore Do?”

HaHaw!

But the political correctness of environmentalism becomes deadly serious when its devotees dodge the No. 1 contributor to environmental degradation: people.

For full article, visit:
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009

Contributing Author: Peter Saundry (other articles)
Content Source: Central Intelligence Agency (other articles)
Article Topic: Population
This article has been reviewed and approved by the following Topic Editor: Mark McGinley (other articles)
Last Updated: May 19, 2009

This article provides estimates of the average annual percent change in the population, resulting from a surplus (or deficit) of births over deaths and the balance of migrants entering and leaving a country. The rate may be positive or negative. The growth rate is a factor in determining how great a burden would be imposed on a country by the changing needs of its people for infrastructure (e.g., schools, hospitals, housing, roads), resources (e.g., food, water, electricity), and jobs. Rapid population growth can be seen as threatening by neighboring countries.

http://www.eoearth.org/article/Population_Growth_Rates_by_Country

Thanks to John Zimmerman, Alan Kuper’s nephew, for this article from AutoWeek. AutoWeek is one of the most respected and widely read magazines for people in the automotive industry. See www.autoweek.com/article/20090617/FREE/906179985 to read the comments or leave your own. Clearly, the author has a few demographic facts wrong, but he has grasped the big picture.
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Many people write to me and say, “Vaughn, I don’t have enough stuff to worry about. Can you suggest some areas of concern over which I might obsess?”

Yes, I can. That’s what I’m here for.

First of all, and don’t let this upset you, we’re all going to hell. And I don’t mean the economy or the car industry or any other popular areas of dismay. To really worry, you have to pull way back and look at the big picture, the long-, long-range plan.

For full article, visit:
http://www.autoweek.com/article/20090617/FREE/906179985

Thanks to Wendell Peart for sending me the attached cover letter from the Placer County Board of Supervisors and the resolution adopted by Placer County in 1993 to call on the Federal government to limit growth. You will see in the letter reference to Wendell’s idea of limiting local growth based on available water per person during the last great drought (1928-33). The Drought Safety Standard became part of the Placer County Plan in 1994. This is an excellent example of a strategy for trying to limit local development to sustainable levels.

Wendell Peart Placer County Resolution (PDF, 149 KB)

Thanks to Steve Kurtz for this article.
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Some of America’s leading billionaires have met secretly to consider how their wealth could be used to slow the growth of the world’s population and speed up improvements in health and education.

The philanthropists who attended a summit convened on the initiative of Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, discussed joining forces to overcome political and religious obstacles to change.

Described as the Good Club by one insider it included David Rockefeller Jr, the patriarch of America’s wealthiest dynasty, Warren Buffett and George Soros, the financiers, Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, and the media moguls Ted Turner and Oprah Winfrey.

For full article, visit:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6350303.ece

Thanks to Rahul Singh for this editorial by him, which was published in edited form in the world’s most widely distributed English language newspaper, the Times of India. Infosys is one of the India’s largest IT companies, and Nandan Nilekani is its co-founder. His book has sold a lot of copies. Rahul is the Chair of the Population Institute’s Global Media Awards Committee.
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In his otherwise perceptive book, “Imagining India,” Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani has sadly got it completely wrong as far as the population problem is concerned.

In a key section of the book, titled “India By Its People,” he says, “As a poor and extremely crowded part of the world, we seemed to vindicate Thomas Malthus’s uniquely despondent vision – that greater population growth inevitably led to greater famine and despair.”

For full article, visit:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Editorial/SUBVERSE

So, what to do to celebrate Earth Day today?

For a start, no sex without birth control, suggests Hans Tammermagi, author and adjunct professor in the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria.

While people try to step more lightly on the Earth by using compact fluorescent bulbs, turning down the thermostat and using public transit, they should also be thinking about the dramatic impact of overpopulation, Tammermagi suggested.

For full article, visit:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=7368236

Critics of the Catholic Church’s social teachings are trying to intimidate Pope Benedict XVI into silence, the Vatican charged Friday in responding to attacks on the pontiff’s remarks about AIDS and condom use.

In a strongly worded statement, the Vatican defended the pope’s view that condoms aren’t the answer to Africa’s AIDS epidemic and could make it worse. On his way to Africa last month, he said the best strategy is the church’s effort to promote sexual responsibility through abstinence and monogamy.

France, Germany, the United Nations’ AIDS-fighting agency and the British medical journal The Lancet called the remarks irresponsible and dangerous. The Belgian parliament passed a resolution calling them “unacceptable” and demanded Belgium’s government officially protest.

For full article, visit:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=7368236