Population Matters - The Durango Herald

Recognize effective ways to save the world’s children

Two of my recent columns dealt with child deaths. The sad fact is that, worldwide, 19,000 children die every day – mostly in poor regions, and mostly related to inadequate nutrition. ...

DATE: Nov 23, 2013 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Countering starvation requires more than just food

July’s column described two Nicaraguan boys with severe malnutrition. Miguel had kwashiorkor, caused by lack of protein. Poor Van’s problem was inadequate food energy; he died from marasmus....

DATE: Oct 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Celebrate and support World Vasectomy Day on Oct. 18

It was time: I walked across the hall, lowered my pants and lay down on the exam table. Dr. Sam Callaway took good care of me. We had two great sons, and our family was complete. ...

DATE: Sep 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Remembering the faces of childhood malnutrition

For me, hunger has very real faces. There are Miguel and Van, and a woman whose name I have forgotten. In 1968, while in medical school, I spent a summer in Nicaragua on the Carib...

DATE: Aug 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Join me in the celebration of my 70th birthday

I’ve lived more than half my life here in La Plata County and have reached a milestone. This month I turned 70. My only sibling, Clara, died too young at age 71, although our parents both li...

DATE: Jul 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Time to officially repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery

After showing the film “Two Who Dared” about the Sharps, a Unitarian couple who saved thousands of children from the Nazis, Charlie Clements asked for questions. I stood and asked what curre...

DATE: Jun 22, 2013 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Changed Puerto Rico has its population under control

This story started 30 years ago when we lived in Puerto Rico. Actually, the real beginning was 15 years before that, in Nicaragua. We returned to Puerto Rico this spring after a t...

DATE: May 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Help stop the slaughter by keeping your cat indoors

Two months ago, I wrote about finding a family of cats along the trail in the Galápagos Islands. The beautiful kittens would grow up to be murderers of vulnerable animals such as the rare sp...

DATE: Apr 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Population Matters