Ian Angus replies to a reader. If ‘overpopulation’ is not a primary cause of global environmental problems, what about island nations with limited space and resources?
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Too Many People?
The real population problem is too many capitalists
“There are too many coal barons, too many oil tycoons, too many politicians who are completely tied to the fossil fuel industry, too many vested interests that don’t want change.” Radio Adelaide interviews Simon Butler.
Swiss newspaper reviews French edition of ‘Too Many People?’
Largest French daily in Switzerland praises ‘Une planète trop peuplée’ by Ian Angus and Simon Butler
Does Anthropocene science blame all humanity?
Ian Angus says the charge that Anthropocene scholars blame all of humanity for the actions of a small minority simply doesn’t hold water.
Ecosocialist resources, 68
Cuba: The ‘solarisation’ of Granma province … Global population control policies fuel India’s sterilization atrocities … Wealth: Having it all and wanting more … Pablo Solon on building a post-capitalist global movement.
Ecosocialist resources, 66
Greening Malthus … The Cuban Revolution and its economic reforms; … 2 degree target means 80% of coal is unburnable … People pushed out of Ethiopia’s fertile farmland … The death of international development
Swiss ‘environmental’ anti-immigrant plan defeated
In referendum, 74% of Swiss voters reject eco-nationalist call for immigration limits and third world population control
Preface to the French edition of ‘Too Many People?’
“A remarkably well-documented book that debunks this overpopulation myth.” —Serge Mongeau’s preface to Une planète trop peuplée?, in English and French
CARE: Fertility control won’t solve the climate crisis
Choice, not control: Global aid organization says environmentally-motivated birth control programs undermine women’s rights, and don’t protect the earth
‘Too Many People?’ published in French
The definitive ecosocialist response to overpopulation myths is now available in a French-language edition.
Population controllers kill more women
More women died in India this week, the latest victims of official government population control programs.
Trying to make environmentalism = population control
![The late Pete Seeger, a folk singer and left wing icon – seen in the photo performing at the Washington Monument on the first Earth Day in 1970 – wrote a song for Paul Ehrlich’s Zero Population Growth organisation (“We’ll All Be A-Doubling”, 1969). Seeger publicly appealed to Ehrlich and Barry Commoner to sink their differences in pursuit of environmentalist aims. “Commoner has convinced me that technology and our private profit politics and society must be radically changed and quickly,” wrote Seeger. “But I’m still working hard for Zero Population Growth. … Achieving ZPG will be good education for everyone. Everyone can and must cooperate.”[6] Seeger’s sympathy for Ehrlich’s aggressively Malthusian arguments is a reminder of how deeply these ideas were embraced not only by the right, but also by sections of the left.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170202012450im_/http://climateandcapitalism.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/07/Pete-Seeger-Earth-Day-1970-100x100.jpg "Trying to make environmentalism = population control")
Gabriel Levy reviews Paul Sabin’s book, “The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth’s Future.”
Population pulp fiction: A failed prophecy from 1970
From the archives: A socialist review of a 1970 novel that predicted an overpopulation apocalypse in two decades
Population control group uses Earth Day to attack immigrants
Population controllers show their bigotry, again
What did that ‘NASA-funded collapse study’ really say?
A critical evaluation of a widely reported study that supposedly proves that only social equality and a rapid shift to renewables can prevent the collapse of western civilization.
Wagering on Earth’s future
Ian Angus reviews ‘The Bet,’ an in-depth account of the overhyped and pointless wager between populationist Paul Ehrlich and libertarian Julian Simon.
Two sides of populationism’s bad penny
Ian Angus reviews two books that predict demographic disaster. One says there are too many babies, the other says there aren’t enough.
Australia: populationists use racism to split green vote
Populationist groups are trying to split Australian environmentalism with a coordinated anti-immigrant campaign
Population and poverty: Against the Gates agenda
Under the guise of women’s rights, billionaires are promoting population control in sub-Saharan Africa
Is population control an anti-capitalist policy?
Ian Angus and Simon Butler reply to a critic who says their opposition to population control puts them in the anti-environment, pro-corporate camp.