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Population News

• Population Institute Mourns Loss of Dr. Rena Joyce Weller Karefa-Smart
• World Population Day: Time for a Renewed Commitment to Family Planning
• Statement on Proposed Domestic Gag Rule

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Our News

• Threats to Reproductive Rights Loom on the 46th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade
• The Divided States of Reproductive Health and Rights
• Population Institute Announces 2017 Global Media Award Winners

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Op-Eds

• Slashing aid puts America's present - and future - interests at risk
• GOP plan's odd side effect: More abortions
• Teen pregnancy rates are declining: don’t mess with success

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Podcasts

Podcasts by the Population Institute are available through iTunes. Click here to view and download all of our podcasts or you may directly access the most recent podcasts below.

• Population, Justice and the Environmental Challenge
  Laurie Mazur, the editor of Population, Justice and the Environmental Challenge (2009) discusses how family planning along with efforts to empower and educate women can help save the planet.
• Economics and Limits to Growth
  Dennis Meadows, co-author of Limits to Growth (1972) and Limits to Growth: the 30 Year Update (2002), discusses limits to growth and the economic implications.
• Bottleneck: the Human Impasse
  William R. Catton, Jr, the author of Overshoot: The Biological Basis of Revolutionary Change (1980) describes how the human species is evolving from Homo sapiens to Homo Colossus and endangering the planet.
• Peak Economy
  Richard Heinberg, author of Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines (2007) discusses the economic challenge posed by population growth and resource scarcity.
• Managing without Growth
  Peter Victor, a professor of economics at York University, discusses how to maintain a healthy, full employment economy without relying upon endless growth.

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