Friday, July 6, 2012  Strategies to Cap Population Increase
Most of us who follow population increase note that it is the
key factor contributing to the ongoing degradation of our
planet. Put simply, there are too many human beings for the
existing resources, given the rate those finite resources are
being used. See also my earlier blog:  Meanwhile, the nine
billion mark (likely by 2050)  is seen as a kind of tipping
point to vastly greater problems, and there is an increasing
push to avoid hitting that marker....ever. A number of
strategies have been put forward by groups such as Population
Connection, including:  1. Assuring Universal Access to a Range
of Safe and Effective Contraceptive Options for Both Sexes:
This goes without saying. So long as we're in the grip of the
paradigm of  accidental conception, no progress can be made. So
long as we're hostage to ancient fossils in black robes, or old
guys wearing mitres and dictating from their thrones, we are for
the high jump. Basically we need procreation