September 3, 2021 | Articles
New Study Warns Global Warming Could Kill 83 Million People by Century’s End A new study from researchers at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, published in the journal Nature Communications, calculates the so-called “mortality cost” of carbon emissions. It concludes that by the year 2100, carbon emissions could result in “excess…...
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September 3, 2021 | Articles
Elon Musk took a moment away from his astronautical machinations to deliver a finger-wagging Twitter warning for humanity: “Population collapse is potentially the greatest risk to the future of civilization.” Just how the annual global population increase of some 80 million people on our planet translates into a collapse seems…...
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September 3, 2021 | Articles
PopEd’s volunteer trainers are the backbone of our program. They are K-12 teachers, pre-service professors, non-formal educators, and education administrators who are passionate about population issues and share PopEd resources with educators in their communities. When our workshops transitioned online in March 2020 due to the pandemic, we weren’t sure…...
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September 3, 2021 | Articles
I just finished reading the June 2021 issue of Population Connection and want to report on my bipolar experience reading it. First, I read the shattering report on life in the Sahel with overpopulation, climate change, abuse of women, lack of women’s rights, and starvation and was just in a…...
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June 14, 2021 | Articles
UN Environment Programme Issues Blueprint for Addressing Environmental Crises A new report issued by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Making Peace With Nature, offers a science-based road map for how to tackle climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals. It points out…...
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June 14, 2021 | Articles
The United States spans a continent rich in natural resources. The land-locked African Sahelian nation of Chad ranks near the very bottom of global lists in terms of resources and prosperity. These two vastly different nations have one thing in common: Both are overpopulated. The United Nations World Food Programme…...
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June 14, 2021 | Articles
It is wonderful work you do to help the planet as much as possible from overpopulation. You are one of only a few organizations that will talk about the obvious—the connection between our sad environment and too many people. I would like to see an article directed to men about…...
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June 14, 2021 | Articles
How big a deal is it that California’s congressional delegation will drop from 53 to 52, the first such loss in representation since statehood in 1850? Census figures released Monday showed that 39,538,223 people lived in the state in 2020, continuing a population-growth plateau that began 10 years ago. It’s…...
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June 14, 2021 | Articles
John, Laura, Marian, and Alex in December 2005 in a remote village a couple hours from Tambacounda, Senegal. Just after finishing graduate school, and before looking for a job in my chosen field, I seized the life-changing opportunity to spend three months in Senegal, the westernmost country in the African…...
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June 14, 2021 | Articles
Students Tackle Timely Issues in 2020-2021 Video Contest This marks the 10th year of our popular World of 7 Billion Student Video Contest, which engages middle and high school students in a range of environmental and social issues related to human population pressures. For the 3,000+ students from 44 countries…...
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