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Population Growth Benefits the Environment
Source: Acton On-Line
Author: Julian Simon
Country: United States

Text of an Acton Institute interview with the late, great Julian Simon.

Acton Institute Tribute to Julian Simon
Source: Acton Institute
Country: United States

A tribute to economist Julian Simon, best known for his work in the fields of population growth and resource use. Includes a short biography plus links to interviews and articles.

Doomsday Every Day: Sustainable Economics, Sustainable Tyranny
Source: Independent Institute
Author: Jacqueline R. Kasun
Country: United States

"Since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, more than 130 countries have created new bureaucracies to foster 'sustainable development' -- a buzz phrase many seem to favor yet few have tried to define." Unfortunately, the concept's fuzziness often masks impulses that are at odds with rational environmental policies. (7/20/99)

Below-replacement fertility
Source: United Nations Population Division
Country: United States

As of 1998, 44 percent of the world's population lived in countries with fertility rates below the replacement level -- and fertility continues to decline. (1998)

Overpopulation possibility receding
Source: Overpopulation.Com
Country: United States

A comparison of yearly projections from government sources notes that the projections are quietly falling. (4/26/99)

UN report defuses 'population bomb theory'
Source: Acton Institute
Country: United States

"The Population Division of the UN has now published a report that addresses a problem population doomsayers did not predict: that within 50 years many countries around the world will be suffering from underpopulation." (6/15/00)

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