Tag: population control
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Horrid History: Population Control
The Economist: Horrid History: Population Control The road to controlling population growth in the 20th century was paved with good intentions and unpleasant policies that did not work, a new book argues. (A review of Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population) AN HISTORIAN who grew up as the youngest of eight children might…
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Living Simply in Abundance (14)
“Material abundance is (A) rapidly depleting our resources and (B) destroying our environment.” This has become the refrain of a new generation of neo-Malthusian environmentalists in our day. It’s widespread in Mainline (National Council of Churches denominations) and is the dominant viewpoint among influential emerging church notables (Brian McLaren’s “Everything Must Change” is a prime…