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Vietnam May Revisit Two-Child Population Policy

By Robert Engelman / On December 18th, 2008
The government of Vietnam will decide on December 22 whether to penalize parents who have more than two children, reinitiating a coercive population policy it abandoned in 2003. "We are considering an adjustment to our policy appropriate to the circumstances of the country," Truong Thi Mai, chair of Vietnam's Parliamentary Committee of Social Affairs, confirmed on Saturday. "The Parliament Standing Committee will decide the week after next." Ms.
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New Lessons from Old Europe

By David Wilcove / On October 9th, 2008
Scientists tend to distrust conclusions that are not based on empirical data and adequate sample sizes. So take what I'm about to say with a large grain of salt, since it is neither empirical nor based on sufficient data. The issue of sustainability is arguably the greatest challenge of our time. How do we provide for 6.7 billion people (rising to over 9 billion by mid-century) without inflicting irreparable harm to our environment?
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7 Steps Toward a Sustainable Society - #2

By Paul Ehrlich / On September 30th, 2008
Here is the second step we should take toward a sustainable society (Click here for step one). Two: Put conserving on a par with consuming. At any given level of technology, there is a trade-off between how many people can be born into a society and the level of per capita

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