Population Matters - The Durango Herald

Responding to my climate change denying friends

A letter to the editor (Herald, Jan. 10) got my attention. It would seem that its author and I are living on different planets. The writer calls professor and former NASA scientis...

DATE: May 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Humans are driving Earth’s sixth mass extinction

Last summer a big game hunter from Minnesota shot Cecil, a famous male lion, in Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwean officials didn’t press charges against Cecil’s killer. Many people in this...

DATE: Apr 23, 2016 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Remember the truth about the history of abortion

I returned to our room in the cheap hotel in Paris to find a bloody mess. My roommate, John, left a note that he had gone to the hospital with his girlfriend. We were in college a...

DATE: Mar 26, 2016 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

‘Don’t get pregnant’ no substitute for contraception

“Don’t get pregnant until 2018” is the advice given to women in El Salvador. Yet only two thirds of married women there are using modern contraception. The Zika virus, declared “p...

DATE: Feb 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

On LARCs lawmakers should listen to Rep. Coram

A recent story (Herald, Jan. 3) detailed the “New Year’s resolutions” of three Southwest Colorado lawmakers. There is an important issue that was not mentioned in that story, and state Rep. ...

DATE: Jan 23, 2016 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

When shopping, help spare the trees of the tropics

Twelve years ago at this time we had just returned from Costa Rica to celebrate Christmas at home. Close to where we had stayed we watched the beginning of a new building going up, using ste...

DATE: Dec 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Poetry captures population bomb’s detonation

For years I have known that what I write is too intellectual, too wordy, too preachy. I have sought poetry on aspects of human population, and finally found a few poems worth sharing. Please...

DATE: Nov 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Population poetry provides material for meditation

For years I have known that what I write is too intellectual, too wordy, too preachy. I have sought poetry on aspects of human population, and finally found a few poems worth sharing. Please...

DATE: Oct 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Funding contraception saves money – and lives

Can you think of any state-funded program that can save $7 for every dollar spent? Voluntary family-planning programs for teens and young women offer that wide a margin of benefit! ...

DATE: Sep 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

River spill was a signal to end business as usual

Our Animas River received a serious insult recently. Fortunately, the river seems to be recovering, but we cannot predict what the long-term effects will be. Contractors working f...

DATE: Aug 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Try offsetting your carbon impact with PopOffsets

We all benefit from fossil fuels. As a consequence, we all cause carbon emissions, and thus contribute to climate change. Is it possible to compensate for our greenhouse gas-emissions? ...

DATE: Jul 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Increase the availability of birth-control pills

Should you have to go to a doctor for a prescription in order to buy a medication that is safe, can prolong lives, prevents cancer and helps people feel better? Although the press...

DATE: Jun 27, 2015 | CATEGORY: Population Matters