Bob talks about population and the environment with Lou Dobbs on CNN.
“It’s interesting that this discussion is occurring at a time when everyone from President Bush on down has recognized that one of the reasons Americans are paying more for gasoline, more for food, is increases in demand. Demand matters and we’re starting to lose confidence that I think we used to have that we can always produce more, we can always find more of everything we might need, so it doesn’t matter how many people are consuming.”
»»» Read the interview transcript here.

Bob Engelman lends his creative expertise to bring attention to the population issue.
»»» Watch him sing “The Pill” by Matt McGinn

Bob guest blogs on Huffington Post to discuss population and if we should care about the diversity of the future population.

“Someone remind me: Why should I care what the ethnic makeup of the United States might be in 2050? Or the median age?

The U.S. Census Bureau finds it newsworthy that its just-released projections of U.S. populations show that Americans will be “more racially diverse and much older by mid-century.” You have to read five paragraphs into the Bureau’s press release to find out that in 42 years there will be 439 million of us, up more than 45 percent from today’s 302 million.

»»» Read the entire post here.

Treehugger.com, the popular environmental blog has a post on population with further info on More.

“Green technology may well still save the world. But two British family planning and reproductive health experts, Dr. Pip Hayes and Professor John Guillebaud, say the best green move any British couple can make is to have just two kids, or at least one less than they were perhaps planning on.”

Read the entire post here.

Bob writes a piece on Huffington Post about the continuing ban on birth control for women around the world.

The pill, the pill,
I’m pining for the pill.
I’ll never have any more
Because they’re going to bless the pill.

That’s the chorus of a song Scottish folksinger Matt McGinn wrote in 1968 after meeting a mother of 22 who wanted to try the pill. That July, advisors to Pope Paul VI reportedly urged reversal of longstanding Catholic Church opposition to the use of artificial contraception by married couples. Instead, 40 years ago today [July 25, 2008], Paul issued the encyclical known as Humanae Vitae.

Read his post here.

In 2007, a record number of 4,315,000 babies were born in the United States.
ABC News interviews Bob for this thoughts.

Earth’s population is growing at a staggering rate. Now, we share our planet with 6.7 billion people, and that number will increase to 7 billion by 2012. Robert Engelman from the Worldwatch Institute talked about the population issues we face, and his new book ‘More: Population, Nature and What Women Want’ on the FOX 4 Morning Show. Watch Bob discuss this issue on Kansas City’s Fox 4.

Here’s Bob’s interview with Reuters reporter Gillian Murdoch. Go directly to piece here.

BEIJING (Reuters Life!) - We do it about 215 million times a day, so humans need to stop shying away from talking about sex — and the babies it makes — to help avert the global climate crisis, environmentalist and author Robert Engelman says.

With 78 million new homo sapiens arriving every year, the human race urgently needs to address population growth through debate, Engelman says in his new book, “More: Population, Nature and What Women Want”.

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“Denial,” Al Gore used to say, “ain’t just a river in Egypt.”

The word, in fact, defines an entire approach to governance that characterizes the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush: Deny that global warming justifies any significant U.S. action. Deny government scientists access to the public when their views conflict with those of the administration.

And, as illustrated on Thursday of last week, deny the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) any financial help to improve the health and lives of women around the world and ultimately slow population growth.

It’s a toxic brew of denial

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Come out and listen to Bob SING and talk about More at Busboys & Poets on Monday, June 30 at 6 p.m.
More info is here.

The Washington Post Book World reviewed More this past Sunday calling it “Useful and Illuminating…”
Read the review here.