population finally makes the news

[stuntcat]

on Science Friday on NPR's Talk of the Nation today. I wish I'd posted about it before the show, sorry. It was an interview with the Author of 'More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want'

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90975024

I don't know if there's a way to replay it. I wish I could have made my baby-craving relatives listen to it because it even mentioned (idiotic) families pressuring women to have children, and the important role women can play now in helping the entire planet.

[bananas]

1. The audio should be on sciencefriday.com by tomorrow.

http://www.sciencefriday.com/

[Glorfindel]

2. It's only the single most important subject on the planet

Why not ignore it a little longer until the sheer, pullulating mass of humanity overwhelms every natural system the earth possesses? Oh, wait...that's already happened. Never mind. Let's bash the gays and pray for Armageddon some more. :sarcasm:

[lob1]

3. The number one problem in the world

is, simply, there are too many people.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. If we don't solve the population problem, it doesn't matter whether we solve our other problems

or not.

[GliderGuider]

5. If we don't solve the population problem, Mother Nature will solve it for us.

:nopity:

[stuntcat]

6. & the sooner the better

for the rest of the species, I mean.

[bhikkhu]

7. K&R...I don't know how anyone would not agree at this point

[CRF450]

8. An off-roading website I go to is mostly republican

Yet they do agree with this issue.

[bhikkhu]

9. Education is the one biggest factor in reduced rates

And most particularly education for women. The one factor that correlates most strongly with a reproduction rate is the level of education of women in a culture.

So as far as wishing to do something about the problem (from the perspective of a government that is able to effect change) the policy should be to encourage education globally, particularly of school age girls.