Environment
by Gloria Feldt on October 31st, 2011
in Economy, Environment, Feminism, Politics, Reproductive Health, Women's Rights
Today, on Halloween no less, the Earth welcomed the baby who tipped world population over the 7 billion mark.
I probably wouldn’t have known much about the topic of world population but for a fluke as I prepared to graduate from the University of Texas Permian Basin the summer of 1974. To my surprise, I was told I needed three more hours of science.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc4HxPxNrZ0&feature=related[/youtube]
National Geographic video showing population growth
It had been a long 12-year road for me, what with three children to care for, a five-year stint teaching Head Start, and other detours along the way. Finally, I thought, I’d be done by the end of June.
Once I got the bad news, I looked for the easiest science course I could find, preferably one without the
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Tagged as: birth control, Day of 7 Billion, death control, ecology, environment, gender equality, global population, population and resources balance, Reproductive Health, RH reality check, Roger-Mark De Souza, sex, water, women, world population
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