Page 17 - Paul Ehrlich News Today

My classmates and I celebrated Earth Day, April 22, by planting trees — and thinking of future generations that would enjoy their shade.

Pope Francis commemorated Earth Day on Monday by warning the planet is “falling into ruin” thanks to humanity’s failure to protect it.

If people’s dogs started dying, maybe then they would sit up and take notice.

Old fears about overpopulation now succumb to the reality that the world is struggling to make more babies.

A new movement promoting scientific, technological, and economic solutions to humanity's problems emerges.

The lesson from the overpopulation debacle is that people adapt to their environment.

A new study published in the Lancet medical journal has predicted that the world’s population will fall for the first time in centuries… proving, yet again, that overpopulation fears are not founded in reality. Population decline, meanwhile, continues to be a major concern across the globe.

Across the world, governments adopted population-trimming policies, from massively subsidized birth control to promoting two-worker households to China’s draconian “one child” policy.

Biologist Paul Ehrlich, 91, and other de-populationists have long concern-mongered about the planet having far too many human beings living on it. Their alarmist claims have proven as consequential as they have been wrong, inspiring the kind of disastrous policies taken up by the communist Chinese...

Happy 110th birthday to Norman Borlaug, a great American credited with saving a billion lives