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. . . and on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, no less.
Commodities and basic resources (like water and good arable land) are in increasingly short supply worldwide, notes the Journal. And while we’ve managed to avoid the wholesale disasters Malthusians have regularly warned against in the two centuries since Thomas Malthus [...]

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A group of prominent Southern Baptist leaders today declared that their denomination has been ‘too timid’ on the issue of climate change.
The authors take pains to note that they’re not necessarily saying that humans are responsible for Global Warming. But they do make the following observation:
“There is undeniable evidence that the earth—wildlife, water, [...]

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The Guardian’s George Monbiot draws attention today to the discomfort that many environmentalists feel when it comes to discussing global population growth. Responses to the article take him to task for positing a false dichotomy between population and consumption, but both the article and the comments are worth a look.

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