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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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.

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Keeping a book short is no easy task, especially on a set of topics as complex and controversial as population and the reproductive intentions of women. Now that I’m discussing my latest book, More, widely, and the publication is gaining some reviews (such as this one in the Washington Post), I’m developing a list of [...]

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Some people think policies aimed at slowing population growth are foisted on the developing world by heavy-handed industrialized countries. Actually, most population policies are home grown, and sometimes none the better for this. I have a hunch there’s not much gender diversity in the circles that develop them. And those who write about them often [...]

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Bob talked about women’s reproductive rights and their connection to the environment on May 30th on NPR’s Talk of the Nation: Science Friday.
Listen to the interview here or learn more at the Science Friday site.

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Last Saturday evening my wife and I took our terminally ill cat to an animal hospital, where a veterinarian put him peacefully to sleep as he sat on my lap. I wasn’t really a cat lover when we adopted him seven years ago, but this unusually affectionate and communicative kitty cat converted me. I’m surprised [...]

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In my last blog post, I promised to wrestle with the time-honored Malthus Question: Does population growth outrun food supply? The old question is coming back as soaring food prices spark discontent, bread lines, and even riots around the world. I’ll try to answer this question decisively in the next 400 words.
Just kidding. Shelves heave [...]

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One of the dozens of countries around the world where hunger is back in the news is the Philippines, where soaring rice prices and long-standing reliance on imported food are raising an old question many people thought was buried for good: Does population growth eventually run into the limits of food production?
In More: Population, Nature, [...]

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Author Robert Engelman Comments on Population on Earth Day
NEW ORLEANS—People walking around the Sheraton Hotel here are talking about population as if it were the most natural conversation in the world. The topic interests me, so I join in. As it happens, I’ve written a book on it, just published by Island Press, which I [...]

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