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human population explosion

She’s Alive . . .

by TRI on January 20, 2012

She’s Alive… Beautiful… Finite… Hurting… Worth Dying for. Video on YouTube literally shrieks about our own personal responsibility in the destruction of our natural environment. Beautiful footage, agonizing conclusions.

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By Frosty Wooldridge A book review: Man Swarm and the Killing of Wildlife by Dave Foreman Part 1 of 5: Humans devastating habitat and poisoning it The Bible said, “Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it and take dominion over all living things on land and in the seas.”At the time of the [...]

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Lisa Hymas, senior editor at Grist, features an excellent series on human overpopulation. Look for her nicely done summary of Man Swarm and the Killing of Wildlife, “Stop the ‘man swarm,’ save the wild world” appearing in Grist’s “7 Billion” series. “A Few Things We Can Do to Freeze and then Lower Man’s Population” “Do [...]

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Guest blog by Leon Kolankiewicz, wildlife biologist and environmental planner. This book review was originally posted August 9, 2011 on NumbersUSA “How far conservationists and environmentalists have fallen from what now seem to me to be the Golden Years of the 1960s and 1970s.  No wonder I’m such an old sorehead.” – Dave Foreman, Man [...]

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Adapted from Man Swarm by Dave Foreman Forty years and three billion Men ago, conservationists and most everyone else understood that we were in the middle of a population explosion.  Today, it seems that many conservationists and most other folks don’t give it much thought.  If we ask “Why?” much of the answer is that [...]

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