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Sexual Revolution

I remember the first time I heard about the Birth Control Pill. Never in human history had sex been separated from reproduction. This was a Sexual Revolution. I was 16 or 17 at the time and I can still...

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Joe Simonetta profile image77

The Overpopulation Problem: Running Out of Natural Resources

We must start living a different way – its no longer a question of maintaining our standard of living, but of surviving on a planet that is losing its basic ecological infrastructure. Difficult questions need to be asked: do we need population control? How can we attain zero population growth? What are the causes, the effects, and the solutions to the exponential human birth rate, and how do we overcome the overpopulation problem?

5 comments    education politics birth rate
Afghanistan population pyramid in 2005, nearly identical as the United States' in the 1930's.  Notice the massive youth population that could support those who were 55 and up.79

Why Social Security Will Collapse

Social Security is an important topic in the United States, especially for Americans in the baby boomer generation and thus the aging population of the country. Many younger individuals ask "will the money...

12 comments    united states future crisis
Population overgrowth - curse or blessing79

Are large populations a blessing or a curse for a nation?

Population - a symbol of power Nowadays, it is a fashion to indicate or symbolize population with poverty, but I think this is oversimplification. If this was true, the most populated country China...

19 comments    income water school
Rev Will profile image69

Politics of single mothers

  Looking at a better way to deal with one parent homes     In this paper we will look at the possibility of getting single parent births back to the 1970’s level or below. The 1970’s seems to be the...

0 comments    love life advice
Famine can be brought on by many factors including drought, war, and flooding, to name a few73

The decline of the human population

Population decline When looking at the numbers, we can predict population declination rates based on several factors such as below-replacement fertility, disease, famine, war, natural and man made...

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Up One Level. The Book. Chapter 29 Excerpt. Abortion.

“While I Have Your Attention”Abortion Those of you with nothing but scriptures to offer may as well skip this chapter. This chapter is for leaders, thinkers and doers. Not followers. The subject of...

1 comment    mystery abortion religious
Last Liberal Prime Minister, 1916 - 1922: David Llloyd George; founder of the Welfare State,        Wiki picture62

Is it worth Voting at all in 2010?

Is it worth Voting at all in 2010? Well, the sands of time have fallen through the hourglass again, and it will soon be time to vote for a new administration. This will probably be next May and we have...

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The Malthus Factor: Poverty, Politics and Population in Capitalist Development

"The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the World. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed" -- George Orwell in 1984, Chapter III -...

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[Classics Book] An Essay on the Principle of Population by Reverend Malthus

Whilst not the first book on population, "An Essay on the Principle of Population" is acknowledged as the most influential. First published anonymously in 1798, the author was soon identified as the...

4 comments    education politics history
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