Doctors and Overpopulation was established in 1972 in the United Kingdom. The organization’s mission statement, published simultaneously in the British Medical Journal and The Lancet, declared: “It is right that we as doctors should be especially concerned about the world population crisis. In the first place we bear some
Continue ReadingI am a retired physician and COVID-19 survivor, and I am here to deliver a message contained in the heart of this pandemic. I am also the author of Stress R Us, a PDF of which is contained in the MAHB.stanford.edu e-library, and also a Cassandra, sounding the clarion call initially delivered by Paul R. Ehrlich in his prescient 1968
Continue ReadingIf 2020 teaches us anything, it’s that the next crisis is likely right around the corner, and could be prevented, or at least contained, if we act swiftly. A pandemic that scientists long warned was likely to occur, occurred, and has already killed well over 240,000 people in the U.S. Dozens of large wildfires – the latest evidence of the climate emergency – are torching the American
Continue ReadingWhat more can be said about the oppression of overpopulation that I and my colleagues have not pontificated on for decades? Hopefully this cartoon I commissioned from artist Rah Lee of Singapore can help us to understand what forces have allowed us to become overpopulated in the first place.
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Three key factors determine the fluctuations in a country’s population: births, deaths, and net immigration. The coronavirus pandemic is disrupting all three in ways that could portend dramatic departures from “normal” population growth scenarios.
Continue ReadingIn July, New York Times editor Bari Weiss published a scathing resignation letter to what she called a “once-great” newspaper, accusing the paper of choosing stories to
“satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and to DRAW THEIR OWN CONCLUSIONS.” (Emphasis mine.)
As climate change accelerates, as much as one-third of world population could live in places that most humans consider
too hot for habitation. Currently fewer than 25 million people, predominantly in Africa, live in these hot zones, defined as
places where mean annual temperature (MAT) is above 84 degrees Fahrenheit.1 By comparison, Miami’s MAT is a
comparatively “frigid” 74 F.
WHERE WE ARE, HOW WE GOT HERE, CAN WE RECOVER AND SAVE OUR NATION AND OUR PLANET? An NPG Forum Paper by Michael G. Hanauer
Continue ReadingWHERE WE ARE, HOW WE GOT HERE, CAN WE RECOVER AND SAVE OUR NATION AND OUR PLANET? An NPG Forum Paper by Michael G. Hanauer
Continue ReadingClick here for a downloadable, printable PDF version Human Fertility and Climate ChangeAn NPG Forum Paperby Edwin S. Rubenstein April 2020 Thomas Malthus warned that human population growth would outstrip the food supply. That fear largely dissipated when fertilizers, pesticides, and mechanized agriculture lowered the price, and increased the quantity, of foodstuffs. But today the very things that bailed us …
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