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• Congested States Are the Least Happy

  
  "Five Short Blasts" Forum — Authority: 122
  http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20091217/sc_livescience/happieststatesrevealedbynewresearch You may have seen on the news a couple of nights ago a report of a study conducted by a group of scientists that ranked the states in terms of their happiness.  The fact that Louisiana ranked as the happiest state caught ...
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• Never go beyond what is just enough

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 143
  by Rob Tippetts The real optimum population for the earth is not a figure or a limit we, as intelligent beings, could ever work out on the basis of the earth’s capacity to produce food to support a chosen level of life for all. When we work things out and try to predict what will happen in order to save ourselves, ...
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• As a good green citizen, I’ll stick to just two children

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 143
  It is the real inconvenient truth. For all the calls in Copenhagen for more cash to tackle climate change, it was left to the Chinese to state the obvious last week: one of the easiest ways to cut carbon emissions is to have fewer children. But this isn’t just a message for people in the poorest countries who ...
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• Stop having babies to save the world, says (father of four) Boris

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 143
  Boris Johnson today urged the world to stop having so many babies to protect the planet. The London Mayor also called on the City to join the green crusade and restore its battered reputation. Father-of four Mr Johnson said: “There is no doubt that humanity faces a risk of environmental catastrophe We are ...
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• California population growth slows as tens of thousands of residents moved away

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Californias population growth slowed over the past year as tens of thousands of residents moved away - many of them heading to other Western states, according to the state Department of Finance. The Golden States population grew by 353,000 to 38.4 million from July 2008 to July 2009. The only years with lower growth ...
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• China’s Population to Peak at 1.4 Billion Around 2026

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 143
  Census Bureau Projects India to Become Most Populous Country in 2025 China’s population is projected to peak at slightly less than 1.4 billion in 2026, both earlier and at a lower level than previously projected. Meanwhile, India’s population is projected to surpass China’s population in 2025, according to ...
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• Bigfoot Endorses Population Reduction

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 143
  Bigfoot Endorses Population Reduction By Fred Westmark Bigfoot (Sasquatch) is not a myth. His name is Norman and he lives in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest of the United States. In an exclusive interview with TANA, The Alien News Agency, Norm revealed his personal and inner most thoughts about ...
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• Development lobby “disgrace” on population

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 143
  The Optimum Population Trust today criticises development groups for “wilfully misinterpreting” its recently launched PopOffsets initiative, under which individuals can offset their carbon emissions by funding family planning services in the developing world. It describes the response of parts of the development ...
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• Five Days in Copenhagen: Perspectives on Demography and Climate Change

  
  RHRealityCheck.org — Authority: 688
  As pressure to address climate change increases, long-simmering debates on the connections between population and environment have been renewed.  Because population policies historically often have undermined womens rights, these issues remain both sensitive and contentious.  RH Reality Check welcomes open debate ...
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• New scientific discoveries moving society toward era of “personalized solar energy”

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, December 17 (ANI): A report by an international expert on solar energy has determined that new scientific discoveries are moving society toward the era of “personalized solar energy,” in which the focus of electricity production shifts from huge central generating stations to individuals in their own ...
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• Population Decreasing in the Netherlands

  
  Dutch Daily News — Authority: 456
  The population growth of the Netherlands will reduce in the coming years. Until a few years ago, things were looking up for the Netherlands. But since the beginning of the recession, this trend has reversed. As a lack of job security and the high costs of living people are less likely to choose for a child. ...
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• At 1.4 bn, India’s population to surpass China’s by 2025: US Census

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  New York, Dec 16 (IANS) With a population growth three times that of China, India is set to become the most populous nation in the world by 2025, according to new data released by the US Census Bureau.“The population growth rate in India currently is about 1.4 percent, nearly three times that of China,” said [...]
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• Uganda: Anti-gay bigots plunge Africa into new era of hate crimes

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 143
  Uganda is likely to pass a law within months that will make homosexuality a capital offence, joining 37 other countries in the continent where American evangelical Christian groups are increasingly spreading bigotry. “Learned behaviour can be unlearned,” said David Bahati. “You can’t tell me that people are ...
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• Africa’s babies: Population boom traps kids in poverty, women in childbearing

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 143
  … Although it’s frequently portrayed as a continent decimated by epidemics, starvation and war, Africa is gripped by one of the greatest population explosions ever recorded. Over the past 60 years, while birth rates in the rest of the developing world declined by half, Africa’s population quadrupled to 1 ...
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• Copenhagen climate conference: Who will dare mention population growth?

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 143
  …. …. … The real “elephant at the summit”, however, is population growth. In spite of it being the core cause of climate change, everyone is running a mile from having a serious, frank discussion on how it can be halted. True, it’s a sensitive subject, but it will be impossible to feed an expanding ...
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• China says population controls help fight climate change

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 143
  China’s “one-child” policy has created heart-ache for millions of Chinese couples but has also allowed the country to grow economically without having to deal with the exploding population numbers faced by many developing countries.   According to Chinese calculations, the one-child policy has resulted in 400 ...
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• Copenhagen and population growth: the topic politicians won’t discuss

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 143
  According to the UN, population growth is a driving force behind emission increases yet it will not be on the agenda at any of the upcoming climate talks World population has doubled to more than 6 billion in the past 50 years. It’s expected to reach 9 billion by 2050. The population of the USA is projected to ...
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• The real inconvenient truth

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 143
  The “inconvenient truth” overhanging the UN’s Copenhagen conference is not that the climate is warming or cooling, but that humans are overpopulating the world. A planetary law, such as China’s one-child policy, is the only way to reverse the disastrous global birthrate currently, which is one million births ...
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• Mark Mobius on Leading Emerging Markets Regions

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 142
  The paragraphs below come courtesy of Mark Mobius, emerging markets guru and executive chairman of Templeton Asset Management. Asia and Latin America are probably the most interesting emerging market areas in the world. This is not only because of their different cultures but also because their conomic histories have ...
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• Population growth and decline: the trends in Patchwork Nation

  
  Patchwork Nation — Authority: 114
  New residents can greatly alter the places where they settle, having an impact on local economies as well as on the political complexion of these communities. Demographers have outlined two sources of population change: natural increase – the ratio of births to deaths – and migration flows to or from other ...
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