Category Archives: Population

Cataclysmically Bad May BLS Report, Soaring Immigration, Advancing Automation, Set Backs for U.S. Workers | Californians For Population Stabilization

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Analysts hoped that the May Bureau of Labor Statistics report would show job creation at 164,000. Instead, BLS reported only a feeble 38,000 new jobs. Save for slight employment upticks in health care and professional services, many of them part-time positions, the BLS data was bad.

Better paying, blue-collar jobs in construction and manufacturing declined by about 33,000. The civilian labor force participation rate decreased by 0.2 percentage point to 62.6 percent as more than 450,000 workers left the labor market in May. People not in the labor force hit a record 94.7 million, 600,000 more than April’s figure.

The number of workers who would like full-time employment, but can find only part-time positions, increased by nearly half a million to 6.4 million. The artificially low 4.7 percent unemployment rate fools no one. Finally, as if the May report is not grim enough, March and April job growth was revised downward from, respectively, 208,000 and 186,000 to 160,000 and 123,000.

Couple the irreversible trend toward automation – “whether you like it or not,” as Rensi put it – with staggering, unsustainable immigration increases, and American workers are under siege.

According to Census Bureau data, legal and illegal immigration increased by 3.1 million, a 39 percent increase during the last two years. Temporary and permanent legal immigrants – all work-authorized – grew from 1.6 million in 2012-2013 to 2 million in 2014-2015. During the same period, the illegal immigrant population, many of whom work off the books, increased from 1.6 million to 2 million.

Source: Cataclysmically Bad May BLS Report, Soaring Immigration, Advancing Automation, Set Backs for U.S. Workers | Californians For Population Stabilization

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AZGFD.gov Game and Fish officers euthanize bear that clawed camper

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GR:  As the human population grows and expands, encounters with wildlife increase.  We kill any animals that injure a human–usually no questions asked.  We also kill wildlife as we build homes and roads and destroy necessary wildlife habitat.  Research indicates that already half of all animals are gone.  Eventually, there will only be humans, their domestic animals, and a small number of other species.

Do we care enough about other creatures to protect their habitat and reduce our population?  None of the zoning regulations I’ve seen preserve habitat just because wild animals need it.  Certainly there is no effective effort to control our population.  So, is it truly inevitable that humans doom most wild animals to extinction?

black bearPHOENIX — “Arizona Game and Fish Department officers last night trapped and euthanized a black bear that had scratched and injured a camper earlier in the day in a dispersed camping area (not a developed campground) near Cherry Creek in Young, Ariz.

“The subadult (1-1/2 to 2-1/2 year-old) [young] male bear was caught in a culvert trap set by a highly trained team of wildlife officers. They confirmed this was the bear involved in the incident based on descriptions from other campers and because it had a unique hind paw pad that matched tracks found at the scene. The bear was euthanized [killed] per department policy because it attacked a human and was deemed a threat to public safety.

“Officers noted there were unsecured food sources and garbage in the area, and a field necropsy revealed garbage in the bear’s stomach contents. Arizona Game and Fish reminds everyone that leaving food and trash around may be luring an animal to its death.”  Read more: AZGFD.gov Game and Fish officers euthanize bear that clawed camper.

The photo is a Pixabay Free Illustration.

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Population matters on World Environment Day – Population Matters

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World Environment Day, celebrated annually on 5 June, was created to inspire people around the world to take action to protect nature and the Earth.

The first World Environment Day was established by the United Nations in 1972, on the day of the first UN Conference on the Human Environment. In the years since then, it has become a broad, global platform for public outreach, celebrated in more than 100 countries. It embraces both individual actions and collective initiatives that have a positive impact on the environment: we all are, after all, agents of change.

This year’s World Environment Day, hosted by Angola, focusses especially on the fight against illegal trade in wildlife, which causes acute animal suffering and is a great threat to the preservation of wildlife and biodiversity.

Source: Population matters on World Environment Day – Population Matters

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Voluntary family planning to minimise and mitigate climate change | The BMJ

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What is the relation between population and environmental impact?

During 1971-72, Ehrlich and Holdren identified three factors that create humanity’s environmental (including climatic) impact, related by a simple equation2:Environmental impact, I =P×A×T.  in which A is affluence (material consumption and the concomitant “effluence” of pollutants such as carbon dioxide (CO2) per person); T is technology impact per person (in which fossil fuels measure more highly than solar based energy); and P is population (the number of people).

Population’s effect on the other two factors is multiplicative. Reducing P can reduce environmental impact if the other factors are constant. In fig 1⇓, for example, fewer people requiring food would manifestly reduce the startling 30% of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and meat production combined (including CO2 from deforestation, methane from livestock, and nitrous oxide from fertilisers).3 That said, other contributory factors, including the worldwide trend towards higher meat consumption, must also be reversed.

Source: Voluntary family planning to minimise and mitigate climate change | The BMJ

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Extreme weather increasing level of toxins in food, scientists warn | The Financial Express

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GR:  With increasing levels of pesticides and natural toxins, the Earth factory farm won’t be producing healthy food.  Shortened life spans in the human future?

“As they struggle to deal with more extreme weather, a range of food crops are generating more of chemical compounds that can cause health problems for people and livestock who eat them, scientists have warned.

“A new report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says that crops such as wheat and maize are generating more potential toxins as a reaction to protect themselves from extreme weather.But these chemical compounds are harmful to people and animals if consumed for a prolonged period of time, according to a report released during a United Nations Environment Assembly meeting in Nairobi.

“Crops are responding to drought conditions and increases in temperature just like humans do when faced with a stressful situation,” explained Jacqueline McGlade, chief scientist and director of the Division of Early Warning and Assessment at UNEP.

“Under normal conditions, for instance, plants convert nitrates they absorb into nutritious amino acids and proteins. But prolonged drought slows or prevents this conversion, leading to more potentially problematic nitrate accumulating in the plant, the report said.”  Source: Extreme weather increasing level of toxins in food, scientists warn | The Financial Express

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Fishermen battling for Brexit | Environment | The Guardian

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GR:  As the human population grows and fish populations shrink, it is critical that we drastically cut our fishing activities.  These people are only concerned with immediate self-interest.  They ignorantly continue the human devastation of the Earth and scream for more.  Do they realize that their continued over-harvest will end their industry?

The EU referendum has united an often fractious industry, with skippers in ports from northern Scotland to Cornwall desperate to dump imposed quotasby Severin Carrell in Fraserburgh, Steven Morris in Newlyn and Henry McDonald in Lough Neagh. Main picture: Murdo MacLeodWilliam Whyte has a new flag flying from the rigging of his vast blue-hulled trawler, its fabric snapping in the brisk breeze coming in off the North Sea. It features the cartoon of a militant-looking fish wearing armour, a union jack shield at its waist and the legend “Fishing for Leave”.

Source: Salt in their veins and fire in their bellies: fishermen battling for Brexit | Environment | The Guardian

Philippines New President Duterte Supports Population Control

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Philippines Population Control Needed

GR:  Joe Bish of the Population Media Center points out that “the advocacy group Philippine Legislators Committee on Population and Development (PLCPD) have voiced support of improved implementation of the RH Law, while sensibly tacking away from a 3 child policy. It is likely that the RH Law, as written, contains a default 2-child or less policy anyway — we already know that when a country’s women have the means and agency to achieve reproductive self-determination most will choose to have 2 children or fewer. Recall Iran, Thailand and Japan, just to name a few.”

Like many other countries, the Philippines needs to control its population growth.  Though the country’s economic growth is strong, at least 25% of the population remains poor.  If the country’s current 1.6% growth rate holds, the population will double in 44 years.  Poverty expansion is very likely.

DuterteBusiness World Online:  “INCOMING president Rodrigo R. Duterte will aggressively implement the country’s family planning law to push his economic growth agenda, one of his aides said on Monday, in a move that could add to simmering tensions with the Catholic Church.

Congress passed a law in “December 2012, despite opposition from Church leaders, allowing public health centers to hand out contraceptives such as condoms and pills, and teach sex education in schools.

Mr. Duterte is pushing for “rapid and sustained implementation” of the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012, said Ernesto dM. Pernia, whom Mr. Duterte has named as his economic planning secretary.

“If you enable families to limit and phase their children to what they can afford and what they can provide for, then that’s going to have an effect on poverty and inequality,” Mr. Pernia said in an interview with ANC.

Such a beautiful land, should not be spoiled by overpopulation and poverty.

Urban population growth and demand for food could spark global unrest, study shows

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A population explosion in urban center around the world is expected to fuel an unprecedented demand for food that – if not met — could trigger economic. . . . (From: www.latimes.com).

GR:  Joe Bish of the Population Media Center commented on the LA Times article:
“The following article was published by the L.A. Times late last week, and reports out on a new report titled “Growing Food for Growing Cities: Transforming Food Systems in an Urbanizing World.” This lengthy study was issued by The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and weighs in at around 100 pages. The report continually cites population growth as a major factor in pressuring food supply chains. For example: “Explosive population growth, both rural and urban, will require 50 to 60 percent increases in global food production by 2050 in order to meet projected demand,” says the introduction. Overall, the word population is mentioned 67 times. Unsurprisingly, but nonetheless regrettably, the report fails to offer a shred of advice to policy makers regarding family planning information and services or universal, unrestricted access to modern contraception. The report’s priority recommendation is for the US government to “Pass legislation committing the United States to a long-term global food and nutrition security strategy.” This would have been a perfect spot to share and emphasize best-practice interventions on family planning. The key question about the failure to do so may be whether it was a failure of the report’s author — or the failure of population advocates and communicators to effectively and widely engage professional experts outside our silo?”

Discover how UNEP is setting the global environmental agenda in its annual report #UNEP2015

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United Nations Environment Programme.  From: www.unep.org

GR:  The loftiest goals, the finest presentation, for the glossiest oxymoron: “sustainable development”. We must keep in mind that population control is the key issue. Population control is not mentioned in the UNEP Annual Report, and in fact, most of the sustainable development goals will increase population. It is an artful deception to praise development for its contributions to humans and nature. Development is the term used to describe human use of the Earth.  It encompasses all those things we do that have led to overpopulation and overuse.  The whole plethora of processes it involves must be ended or reversed now if we are to save the majority of wild plants and animals.  I say “must” for it seems to me that without nature’s complexity, our environment and our existence become tedious and tenuous.