Pat Hynes and Yanar Mohammed have written a thoughtful call for reparations from the US to Iraq, arguing that "The United States owes reparations to the people of Iraq for this unsanctioned war of aggression, most of all to the women and girls who have lost their future." It can be read in full at PeaceXPeace.
The HPV vaccine was tested on adolescent girls in India (and some argue is still being informally tested on them, as questions of current consent arise). Responding to a question about deaths and serious side effects among these youth, a Merck head of medical research says, "There's a background noise of deaths, a background noise of side effects, especially in this age group."
At the Bonfire of the Vanities, Follow the Sparks
Plenary address to Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom conference
at Hampshire College on April 10, 2010.
Betsy Hartmann ♦ Professor of Development Studies
The Southern Poverty Law Center's recent report on right-wing extremism and hate groups documents that violent actions and political rhetoric by radical right-wing groups has increased in the past year, most notably among nativist, anti-immigrant vigilante groups, the number of which "soared by nearly 80%, adding some 136 new groups during 2009."
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.
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.”
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.
Check out Betsy Hartmann’s recent interview on climate change politics and overpopulation propaganda for Newsclick India.
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).
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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.
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 ThreatSaturday August 29, 2009 Betsy Hartmann was interviewed on KPFA's Saturday Morning Talkies. Listen to the interview here.
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.
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)
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
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...
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-changeAn 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...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.pdfOur 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.pdf
