June 10, 2024 | Articles
Prudish even by the standards of the Victorian Age, Anthony Comstock ranks as one of the more bizarre and destructive figures in U.S. history. The founder of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice in 1873, Comstock boasted of hounding women to suicide by pursuing their prosecution for…...
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The region where I live was crippled by a beautiful but extremely destructive ice storm in March, a few days into spring (a seasonal designation that means nothing in Maine). We lost power for 45 hours, which was quite unpleasant since the “feels like” temperature outside hovered around 19 degrees.…...
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Earth Month Anchored Our Spring Events Virtual events have been in full swing this spring! Population Connection members and supporters brought all of their energy and enthusiasm to our slate of virtual events in the first half of 2024 — we hope you’ll be inspired to join us in the…...
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June 10, 2024 | Articles
Read the forward to this article by Marian Starkey here. In the print version of the magazine, the forward precedes the article below. What Tanzania tells us about Africa’s population explosion as the world hits 8 billion people Dar es Salaam, which is heading for megacity status, typifies a region…...
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Over the past two years, six new members have joined the Population Connection Board of Directors. Get to know them a bit on the pages that follow! We are fortunate to have 17 experts in various fields leading Population Connection at the highest level. These accomplished professionals work in health…...
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Partisan Politics Plague Congress and Courts Congress completes 2024 funding bills: new speaker faces old challenge On the last weekend in March, with the threat of a government shutdown looming, Congress finally — a full six months late — passed the last package of Fiscal Year 2024 spending bills. Included…...
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Vast reproductive health and rights inequalities persist UNFPA’s State of World Population 2024 report published in April showed that while significant achievements have been made over the past 30 years, major barriers to sexual and reproductive health and rights remain. The landmark 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)…...
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Tosher, slubber doffer, knocker upper. These may sound like smarmy slurs. Actually, they are obsolete occupations. Toshers were sewage scavengers, which is as awful as it sounds. Slubber doffers removed bobbins from looms in knitting mills. Knocker uppers made noise to awaken people in the era before alarm clocks. You…...
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June 10, 2024 | Articles
In the search for a feature article detailing the population challenges Tanzania faces, I found none better than the one that follows from The Guardian, written to mark the 8 billion milestone on November 15, 2022. The author, Kenyan journalist Caroline Kimeu, is the Guardian’s East Africa Global Development Correspondent,…...
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Population growth exacerbates every significant problem in the world. It leads to millions of people who have little and need more, which causes resentment and a desire for revenge. It creates children who starve to death after a brief view of life. It has made you and me insignificant commodity…...
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