9.17.08: “I would argue that it’s disingenuous to say that the spread of family planning wasn’t important to the fall of fertility. Some countries didn’t need active government programs because they had private-sector medical care and NGOs, who, without much government assistance, were making sure that a variety of family-planning programs were available to people.

If you don’t have contraceptives, you’re going to have a large family, or you’ll have to be abstinent, and I think that the record shows that most people don’t

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

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