December 11, 2023 | Articles
A Year of Global Partners Population Connection is proud to partner with a growing number of small, community-based organizations working to increase access to public health and family planning services, remove barriers to girls’ education, and conserve wildlife and its habitats. These small nonprofits offer programs and services to their…...
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Breaking planetary boundaries Two recent studies provide renewed warnings that the risk of triggering catastrophic tipping points is rapidly increasing due to humanity’s failure to shrink our collective environmental footprint. The first paper, published in the journal Science Advances, is an update of the planetary boundaries framework developed in 2009…...
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The ZPG Society is our recognition group for members who have made a gift in their will or trust, established a charitable gift annuity, or designated Population Connection as a beneficiary of their retirement fund or other financial account. Membership Relations Coordinator Stephanie Wolfe spoke with ZPG Society member Dorothy…...
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Los Angeles Times The Mexican Supreme Court of Justice decision decriminalizing abortion last week is a landmark ruling in a country that has historically outlawed the procedure with harsh penalties for the women who sought it and the health care professionals who provided it. … Yet, as Mexico and other…...
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Right wing extremists continue to do their best to ensure that people in this country, and around the world, are denied access to reproductive health care. In 2022, the Supreme Court stripped Americans of their constitutional right to legal and safe abortion, when it overturned Roe v. Wade. This past…...
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Culture Wars, Crises, and Chaos: The U.S. House Melts Down House Republicans have been using the Appropriations process—the annual moving of bills to fund all government programs and agencies—to promote their extreme ideological agenda. For example, on September 28, the House passed the 2024 State Department and Foreign Operations spending…...
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New Interactive Poster Kits Just Released This fall, PopEd published two new resources to grace classroom walls. Our updated World Population Map depicts countries by their population size, rather than by their land area. This new cartogram represents the global population at 8 billion, using the latest data from the…...
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Dr. Jane O’Sullivan “Population Change and Its Impact on the Environment, Society, and Economy” is the title of a recent special issue of the academic journal World, edited by Drs. Jane O’Sullivan and Céline Delacroix. The articles, by researchers from Australia, Canada, Europe, South Africa, and the United States, are…...
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John Seager, john@popconnect.org One of my long-ago EPA coworkers displayed this message for all to see: “Your failure to plan ahead does not constitute my crisis.” None of us can afford to ignore today’s ecological emergencies resulting from humanity’s profound failure to plan ahead as our population continues to soar.…...
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Major Atlantic Ocean current could collapse within next decades, study suggests Using statistical models and ocean temperature data, a new study published in Nature Communications found that an important ocean current could reach a major tipping point sooner than previously estimated, causing it to shut down sometime between 2025 and…...
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