UN warns of population explosion

[winterbadger]

The population of developing countries will soar unless donors give more funds to reproductive health programmes, a UN Population Fund report says.
The world's 50 poorest countries will triple in size by 2050, surging to 1.7 billion people, it predicts.

from the BBC

In light of a recent discussion of theories of population *shrinkage* (which so affected the originator that he apparently deleted his journal (!), I thought this was interesting.

Comments

[peaceful-fox.livejournal.com]

The fact that the Bush Admin. froze $34Billion in spending just amazes me. I knew that they were cutting back on donations to reproductive health programs, but I wasn't sure how much. The amount is staggering. I feel so sad that women are denied their rights to birth control and sex education, as well as the proper care they need for pre/post natal services. :-( Not only does the current administration not help those who *don't* wish to reproduce, they don't offer support and services to those that have to reproduce due to *their* policies/lack of support.

[winterbadger]

They seem astonishingly willing to label people as enemies that the rest of us would see as victims.