Beyond Industries: Why Half a Billion Other Indians Need Fossil Fuels

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India’s population is nearing 1.4 billion and plays an important role in the global economy. Industry, employing about three-fifths of the Indian workforce, and agriculture, employing the other two-fifths, are the twin engines of India’s soaring economy. Both sectors depend on fossil fuels, and the demand for fossil fuels in India is unlikely to diminish […]

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Does Fighting Global Warming Help or Hurt the Poor?

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Want to “bring nothing but misery to poor people, especially in the developing world”? Simple: Just follow the advice of the international cabal of UN leaders and their organizations calling for drastic action to fight global warming. The harangue is familiar everywhere by now: Global warming will harm everybody, but it’ll harm the poor most

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Protect Endangered Species on Valentine’s Day?

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Valentine’s Day. A day for lovers. But according to the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), it could be a very bad day for biodiversity. That’s because, so goes the argument, what lovers (heterosexual lovers, anyway) do—not just on Valentine’s Day but all year long—threatens to increase human population. And, as everyone knows, growing human population

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Are “Fixer Upper” Stars Wrecking the Earth with their Children?

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You’d have thought congratulations were in order when HGTV’s Chip and Joanna Gaines, of Fixer Upper, announced they’re expecting their fifth child. Some congratulations did come, but so did some nasty criticism. The gist: With four, they have too many already. The world’s overpopulated, and it’s selfish of them to add more children. US Magazine

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Have Fewer Kids to Fight Climate Change?

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Because “having one fewer child reduces one’s contribution to the harms of climate change,” Travis Rieder argues, “everyone on Earth ought to consider having fewer children.” Rieder confesses that “this is an uncomfortable discussion.” He says he’s “certainly not arguing that we should shame parents, or even that we’re obligated to have a certain number

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China’s One-Child Policy Ends—Time for a Little (Yes, Little) Celebration

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The Communist Chinese government’s Xinhua news agency announced today that the government is abolishing that country’s one-child policy. The policy, which Susan Yoshihara, senior vice president for research at the Center for Family & Human Rights and co-editor of Population Decline and the Remaking of Great Power Politics has called “the world’s worst law,” “resulted in more

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