For several years, ending a couple of years ago, Sierra Club annual board elections were sharply contested in part based on whether or not the club should take an official stance on population control in the United States.
Practically, of course, that meant taking, or not taking, an official stance on illegal aliens and illegal immigration, and what to do about that.
Well, Executive Director Carl Pope, ironically or hypocritically, himself a former political director for Zero Population Growth (see his Wiki bio), got the board he wanted, got Sierra governance changed, and kept population growth worriers from being easily nominated to run for board positions.
Imagine my surprise when I got my July/August issue of Sierra magazine (I’m going to keep the subscription until my Sierra Club membership officially expires, had an article touting birth control in Ethiopia.
The subhead is even explicit: “Ethiopia, the cradle of humanity, faces up to family planning.”
So, Carl Pope, why is it OK to talk about family planning there, in your mag, but not about population issues here on your board?
If you’re wondering the same thing, shoot Carl an e-mail.
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June 26, 2008
March 18, 2008
Gore misses boat on call for ‘green India’ by ignoring growth rate
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore spoke in New Dehli with co-Nobel Peace Prize winner Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and an Indian himself recently, and said India could be a major “green” country with 21st century technology.
However, he missed one HUGE roadblock to that.
And, that would be the semi-official Indian governmental policy of surpassing China in population.
India’s population growth rate of 1.6 percent per year, a birthrate of 22.69 per 1,000 and an average age of just under 25,per the CIA Factbook. and worse than, for comparison, Iran and Indonesia, and as bad as Egypt, are guaranteed to make a “green” India pretty difficult.
We have got to have U.S. leaders who will honestly talk population control with more developing nations.
However, he missed one HUGE roadblock to that.
And, that would be the semi-official Indian governmental policy of surpassing China in population.
India’s population growth rate of 1.6 percent per year, a birthrate of 22.69 per 1,000 and an average age of just under 25,per the CIA Factbook. and worse than, for comparison, Iran and Indonesia, and as bad as Egypt, are guaranteed to make a “green” India pretty difficult.
We have got to have U.S. leaders who will honestly talk population control with more developing nations.
October 31, 2007
Some suggested linkage on any nuke deal with India
Given that India’s as horrible on water pollution as China is on air pollution, and the quasi-official position of both Congress and BNP political parties is deliberate population growth as a tool weapon of international policy, especially vis-à-vis China? or Pakistan?, why don’t we link the nuke deal to population control efforts out of New Dehli?
Of course, W., sucking up to the Religious Right, isn’t going to do that. But, why don’t Congressional Democrats, or enlightened Congressional Republicans, raise this issue?
Of course, W., sucking up to the Religious Right, isn’t going to do that. But, why don’t Congressional Democrats, or enlightened Congressional Republicans, raise this issue?
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