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

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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.”

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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…

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