THE CAIRO CONFERENCE: FEMINISTS VS. THE POPE
- Lindsey Grant
- July 1, 1994
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The final preparatory conference for the Cairo meeting (“PrepCom III”) was held in New York City in April.
The final preparatory conference for the Cairo meeting (“PrepCom III”) was held in New York City in April.
Seen from a reasonably detached viewpoint — from Mars, let us say — the arguments for arresting U.S. population growth would seem so compelling as to raise the question “why isn’t it being done.”
The President is launching his effort to reform the welfare system in a society that is undergoing tectonic changes driven by population growth, technology, and international trade arrangements.
The nation was far more forthright in addressing the issue of population growth a generation ago than it is now.
In this tough-minded, lucid book, Leon Bouvier and Lindsey Grant examine the inevitable and escalating environmental degradation that will result if population growth pushes the limits of our already strained…
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Demography and Health Care Reform An NPG Forum Paper by Lindsey Grant October 1993 The President’s proposal for a national Health Security Act must deal with an aging population structure, problems involving immigration, fertility, AIDS and perhaps other plagues, and a changing labor force. Those issues will affect the proposal in ways …
For the time being, the United States and much of the industrial world have achieved very high agricultural production and low food costs on the basis of extremely intensive use of fossil energy.
Click here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Alice in Wonderland: U.S. Immigration Policy An NPG Footnote by Lindsey Grant March 2022 Lewis Carroll would be proud. Present U.S. asylum and immigration policies bear the distinctive mark of the Mad Hatter. The Sequence of Events As a starter, we have laws concerning the premissible levels of immigration – not very …
The Environmental Protection Agency heretofore has shown no interest in population growth as a cause of environmental problems, and recent remarks by its new administrator suggest that the situation has not improved.
The President is facing a mounting crisis over unemployment and wages, which will come to the front as the Senate debates the proposed North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).