Posts Tagged ‘population’
Impacts of Growing Populations
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 1:52 Comments OffRecently, when looking to understand the issues of sustainability, I have been less concerned with mpg or SOX, but about populations. Specifically, the fact that in 1950 we were a mere 1.5 billion people.. and now we are 6.7billion. One of the more interesting, and concise documents, I found recently comes from the Population Media [...]
China’s Urbanization
Monday, February 2, 2009 23:32 Comments OffJonathan Woetzle and his team and MGI have been doing a lot of work to research, analyze, and promote the way that China should urbanize. It is a report I read last year, and it is one I believe anyone who considers themselves as having a role in sustainability should read as it does a [...]
Is Scraping China’s “One Child” Policy a Sustainable Idea?
Tuesday, January 6, 2009 9:36 1 CommentThere is no denying it. There are a lot of people in China, nearly 1.5 billion to be exact! The problem is that since 1979 and the implementation of the “one child” policy in China, imbalances in China’s demography have formed and the calls to end the policy are growing. In the China Stakes article [...]







