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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June 14, 2021 | Articles
Congressional Meetings and Digital Day of Action A lobby meeting with Rep. Carbajal, his staffer, constituent Rogan Thompquist, and Lindsay Apperson, our National Field Manager This year, over 200 people from across the country joined us virtually from the safety of their homes to advocate for reproductive rights around the…...
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June 14, 2021 | Articles
As the Biden administration continues to fill key staff positions and roll out new initiatives, there is a growing sense among family planning advocates that we are on the verge of some truly wonderful progress. Budget Season Begins As is typical during the first year of a presidential administration, the…...
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June 14, 2021 | Articles
Earth Day 2021 Population Connection members and supporters participated in our second all-virtual Earth Day in April, joining us for a month-long “Passport Series” of expert voices from around the world and a screening of the uplifting documentary 2040. In total, over 450 members and supporters joined us for at…...
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June 14, 2021 | Articles
Caught between jihadists and climate change, the region faces an almighty humanitarian crisis. Will Brown reports from Burkina Faso. Pictures by Simon Townsley. Originally published by the Telegraph. “Nowhere scares me more than the Sahel … we are close to a tipping point.” Caught between jihadists and climate change, the…...
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June 14, 2021 | Articles
The region is the poster child for insecurities already brought on by global warming. Originally published by Foreign Policy on February 18, 2021 One of the many injustices of climate change is it hits the world’s poorest countries hardest. African nations, many of which register the highest levels of poverty…...
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March 15, 2021 | Articles
U.S. Rejoins Paris Climate Agreement Only hours after being sworn in as the country’s 46th president, Joe Biden signed an executive order rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, from which Donald Trump had previously withdrawn. The agreement, signed by nearly 200 countries in December 2015, encourages countries to voluntarily commit to…...
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March 15, 2021 | Articles
When Dr. Fauci gives us the all-clear and theaters finally reopen, what will you do if you see smoke when entering a facility? You’ll pull the alarm, of course. That’s the only humane and sensible reaction. In 1968, Paul and Anne Ehrlich did just that with The Population Bomb when…...
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