population

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will deliver a major speech Friday, January 8, 2010 to mark the 15th year of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). Secretary Clinton will announce the U.S. Government's renewed support for and dedication to reaching the ICPD goals and other related UN agreements, including the Millennium Development Goals, by 2015.

The speech will be live streamed on www.icpd2015.org starting at approximately 2:30 pm ET. A transcript and video of of the speech will be posted on this site following the event.

It's overconsumption, not population growth, that is the fundamental problem: By almost any measure, a small portion of the world's people — those in the affluent, developed world — use up most of the Earth's resources and produce most of its greenhouse gas emissions.

Read more by Fred Pearce:
http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2140

Also read:
David Satterthwaite, "The Implications of Population Growth and Urbanization for Climate Change," Environment and Urbanization, vol. 21, no. 2, 2009. Satterthwaite pages 545-567