In a March 12 editorial, Pat Hynes of the Traprock Center for Peace and Justice writes that peace negotiations between the Karzai government and the Taliban are excluding women from critical conversations about the country's future.
Posted 3/18/2010
News
Ian Angus Writes: ‘Population Justice’ – Wrong Way to Go on Climate and Capitalism
For an important critique of ‘population justice’, see Ian Angus’ column, ‘Population Justice’ – Wrong Way to Go on Climate and Capitalism. According to Angus, “The combination of population reduction and women’s rights was already like oil and water. Adding CO2 reductions to the mix only makes things
worse.”
Posted 2/8/2010
The Gene Express
Download the text of Betsy Hartmann’s opening address, “The Gene Express: Speeding Toward What Future?” [PDF] delivered at Sama Resource Group for Women and Health’s International Consultation on Unraveling the Fertility Industry: Challenges and Strategies for Movement Building, New Delhi, India, January 22-24, 2010.
Posted 2/8/2010
Newsclick, India: Betsy Hartmann on Climate Change Politics and Overpopulation Propoganda
Check out Betsy Hartmann’s recent interview on climate change politics and overpopulation propaganda for Newsclick India.
Posted 2/8/2010
Don’t Beat the Climate War Drums published in Climate Chronicle
Read Betsy Hartmann's article, "Don’t Beat the Climate War Drums," published in Climate Chronicle. Misguided militarisation of climate policy distorts perceptions of who – or what – carries the real responsibility for climate-related instability, writes Betsy Hartmann...
Read the full article here [PDF] (170.05 KB).
Read the full issue here.
Posted 12/14/2009
The New Population Control Craze: Retro, Wrong way to go
Betsy Hartmann wrote in On the Issues Magazine:
It’s back to the bad old days of the population bomb. That was the title of an alarmist book by Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich that appeared in 1968. He suggested that world catastrophe would ensue unless women in poor parts of the world were prevented from having too many children.
This fall’s junk mail carried an alarmist appeal from Population Connection, using its former name of Zero Population Growth (ZPG). According to ZPG, you can blame just about everything on population growth, from traffic congestion, overcrowded schools and childhood asthma to poverty, famine and global warming.
Posted 11/18/2009
Consumption Dwarfs Population as Main Environmental Threat
If you're fed up reading about reports which claim that reducing population growth is the best way to reduce carbon emissions, check out these important articles by leading environmental thinkers for alternative information and analysis:
David Satterthwaite, "The Implications of Population Growth and Urbanization for Climate Change," Environment and Urbanization, vol. 21, no. 2, 2009. Satterthwaite pages 545-567
See also:
Link: Consumption Dwarfs Population as Main Environmental ThreatPosted 10/1/2009
Saturday Morning Talkies: Betsy Hartmann on the dangers of national security linked to climate change
Saturday August 29, 2009 Betsy Hartmann was interviewed on KPFA's Saturday Morning Talkies. Listen to the interview here.
Posted 9/2/2009
Anything Goes: The Dangers of Linking Climate Change to National Security
Betsy Hartmann published on Common Dreams! Do the ends justify the means? This age-old question has relevance to today’s climate debate. This fall the Senate has the historic opportunity to pass legislation to curb U.S. carbon emissions.
Read Betsy Hartmann's post on Common Dreams.
Posted 8/28/2009
Lines in the Shifting Sand: The Strategic Politics of Climate Change, Human Security and National Defense
Read Betsy Hartmann's paper that explores evolving defense and
intelligence approaches to climate change and human security. Prepared for the session on “Rethinking Security in a Changing” GECHS Synthesis Conference, June 22-24, 2009, University of Oslo, Norway.
Lines in the Shifting Sand.pdf (184.1 KB)
Posted 8/28/2009
Population Control
Betsy Hartmann was interviewed by Virginia Prescott on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 for New Hampshire Public Radio.
Hear her interview at this link:
http://www.nhpr.org/node/22270
Posted 3/30/2009
Rebuttal to Chris Hedges: Stop the Tired Overpopulation Hysteria
In this article published by Alternet.org on March 14, 2009, Betsy Hartmann, argues that raising alarms about overpopulation distracts us from the real environmental tasks at hand and legitimizes top-down punitive policies that hurt women.
http://www.alternet.org/story/131400/rebuttal_to_chris_hedges%3A_stop_th...
Posted 3/30/2009
Population and Climate Change
Betsy Hartmann participated in an online roundtable discussion about population and climate change. Read the discussion at the following link.
Link: http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/roundtables/population-and-climate-changePosted 1/8/2008
War Talk and Climate Change
An article by Betsy Hartmann about the danger in claiming climate change as a threat to national and international security.
Link: http://popdev.hampshire.edu/sites/popdev/files/publications/Betsy_Hartmann_War_T...Posted 11/27/2007
10 Reasons to Rethink Overpopulation (Spanish)
Our fold-out color pamphlet on why we should rethink arguments that the world is overpopulated is now available in Spanish! Contact us for copies.
Link: http://popdev.hampshire.edu/sites/popdev/files/dt/10Razones.pdfPosted 10/4/2007
Babies, Burdens and Threats: Current Faces of Population Control
Our new publication includes articles on topics including population aging, race and immigration, eugenics and biological determinism, the environment, national security, and a comprehensive overview of why we should rethink and question overpopulation arguments.
Link: http://popdev.hampshire.edu/sites/popdev/files/dt/DT_BBT_Collection.pdfPosted 1/29/2007
10 Reasons to Rethink ‘Overpopulation’
View our new color pamphlet on why we should rethink arguments that the world is overpopulated. Please contact us for copies.
Link: http://popdev.hampshire.edu/sites/popdev/files/dt/10ReasonsPamphlet.pdfPosted 11/9/2006
Abortion and the Politics of Prevention
Read Betsy Hartmann’s article posted on ZNet, November 2006, about the importance of legal and accessible abortion to contraceptive choice.
Link: http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2006-11/07hartmann.cfmPosted 11/9/2006
U.S Population Hits 300 Million
Read the Population and Development Program’s editorial that appeared in the Hampshire Gazette, October 18, 2006.
Link: http://popdev.hampshire.edu/sites/popdev/files/uploads/u4/A_bigger__and_greener_...Posted 10/30/2006
