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• Britain’s problem with pets: they’re bad for the planet

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 439
  … A new book with the somewhat provocative title of Time to Eat the Dog? The Real Guide to Sustainable Living has triggered a highly charged debate about the environmental efficacy of our pet-owning habits. If we are to examine the environmental impacts of all our lifestyle choices, the book argues, then we must ...
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• BCC: Growing population requires debate about additional infrastructure

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 439
  Reacting to the prime minister’s comments on population and immigration today, David Frost, Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), said: “With the population set to grow by over 10 million in the next 25 years, the focus should not simply be about migration levels. There needs to be active ...
  3 days ago

• Environmental protection should be at the heart of future regional planning

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 439
  An exclusive pursuit by the Government of economic growth could have dire costs for the countryside, and the wider environment. This is CPRE’s [1] warning as the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill, which reforms regional planning, becomes law this week [2]. New regional Strategies, provided ...
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• Progress made on population talks

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 439
  The Scottish Government has claimed to have made “good progress” in talks with Westminster on immigration. Agreement was reached on several matters in “useful” talks with Immigration Minister Phil Woolas, it said. The meeting between Mr Woolas and External Affairs Minister Mike Russell centred on how to use ...
  6 days ago

• Population Decisions – Part II

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 439
  What Are The Decisions? By Fred Westmark Most people views decisions in black and white terms – either or. One decision, in most people’s mind, should cover all the issues. Decisions about population are not one-sided. The issue is very complex. If a nation’s government is going ...
  6 days ago

• When Pipes Go “Boom!”

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 627
  It was pouring rain in Manhattan when I tried to begin my long journey back to my hometown in Maryland. There was a long line for cabs, and I had to get to Penn Station to catch a train. So I took a bicycle rickshaw whose driver was eager for business. “The only way to travel in Manhattan,” he said. He was a stout ...
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• Theyve let another blithering idiot into the House of Lords

  
  The Answer's 42 — Authority: 111
  That retirement home for the terminally bewildered, the House of Lords, has another deluded soul on its benches. Lord Sachs, the chief rabbi, says Europes facing a population crisis because of attacks on religion by "secular writers" . If contraception was that easy, these "secular writers" ought to be writing a ...
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• Upper Colorado River, Front Range water resources threatened

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 675
  Some water experts warn the upper Colorado River is an endangered species if current residential growth patterns and water consumption patterns continue along the state’s Front Range, and they’re increasingly concerned proposed energy production on the Western Slope will accelerate its demise. Poudre Canyon ...
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• Retraction – No Change in Population Growth Rate

  
  "Five Short Blasts" Forum — Authority: 117
  I should have known it was too good to be true.  Upon checking my data against the U.S. Census Bureau monthly estimates, I found some inconsistency in the point in time at which I was “grabbing” the current population data.  The fact is that there has been no change in the quarterly growth rate of the U.S. ...
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• Pollytrend and Odds and Ends

  
  Pollytics — Authority: 538
  Throwing the last polling cycle’s worth of data into the Pollytrend algorithm, we can see that Newspoll produced no discernible change in the trend line – which is to be expected, since our trend here measures how all polls move together and it can adapt to outliers. Also worth having a squiz at are three ...
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• Global protocol could limit Sub-Saharan land grab

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 439
  Aggressive moves by China , South Korea and Gulf states to buy vast tracts of agricultural land in sub-Saharan Africa could soon be limited by a new global international protocol. A scramble for African farmland has in recent years seen the equivalent of Italy’s entire arable land hoovered up by businesses from ...
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• Climate change is worsening food insecurity, experts say

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 439
  Climate change is worsening food insecurity, experts say 02 Nov 2009 17:06:00 GMT Greeenpeace activists hang a banner against climate change at the Sagrada Familia Temple designed by Antoni Gaudi in Barcelona, November 2, 2009. Climate negotiators from 175 nations are meeting in the city. ...
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• UNICEF sounds alarm over numbers of South Asian children trapped in poverty

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 439
  Some 300 million children in South Asia, or half of the region’s under-18 population, suffer from chronic levels of poverty, according to a new United Nations Children’s Fund ( UNICEF ) study presented today at the opening of a conference in Bangladesh.To combat the enormous amount of poverty afflicting children, ...
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• Congrats to the World on Having Fewer Kids

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 513
  This week’s Economist magazine has a fascinating cover story on the world’s declining fertility rate and what it means for economic growth and the sustainability of the planet more generally.  Apparently the world is starting to get our demographics “just right”–what the Economist refers to as a ...
  2 weeks ago

• U.S. Population Growth Rate Continues Plunge to New Record Low

  
  "Five Short Blasts" Forum — Authority: 117
  Following the announcement of 2nd quarter GDP in July and my calculation of real per capita GDP, I discovered that the population figures provided by the Census Bureau revealed a surprising drop in the quarterly growth rate of the U.S. population, falling to a record low.  This was especially significant considering ...
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• Increase use of remediated land could accommodate UK population growth

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 439
  Brown field sites previously judged to be too contaminated could be brought back into use if the predicted rise in the UK population from 61m to 71.6m by 2033 is to be accommodated, according to The Concrete Centre.   Currently, brown field sites account for 70 per cent of new homes. This figure will have to ...
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• Gardasil Vaccine Doesn’t Work; Contains Tween 80

  
  Ahrcanum "ahR-Kah-noom" > secret secrets — Authority: 131
  Gardasil and Cervarix vaccines will do little to reduce cervical cancer rates, according to the drugs lead researcher in the development of two human papilloma virus vaccines, says Dr. Diane Harper. The outspoken researcher also weighed in last month on a report published in the Journal of the American Medical ...
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• As the US population increases, should Congress add members?

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 509
  [KW: I have not decided if I think adding more Congresspeople is a good thing. Perhaps if they were volunteer/unpaid or if they had strict term limits? We need more real people representing us, rather than career politicians.Though, I have another suggestion. I think we should add more Supreme Court justices. For so ...
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• Has the Former Archbishop George Carey Had a Damascus Experience?

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 649
  Has Former Archbishop George Carey had a personal Damascus experience or is he also just panicked at the rise in support for the British National Party? This is the question being asked in religious circles after the former Archbishop of Canterbury issued a call for a “clear cap on population growth.” Reverend ...
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• Population Decisions – Part I: Who Should Decide?

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 439
  By Fred Westmark The basic questions of overpopulation are: Who? What? Why? How? The decisions made about overpopulation today will have a profound effect on the future of the Earth, Thousands of years hence, if humans survive, the decisions made at the present time will affect the quality of human ...
  3 weeks ago

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