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Posts Tagged ‘Optimum Population Trust’

Population growth is once again being identified as the primary cause of environmental destruction. And not just by right-wing bigots, but by sincere but confused environmental activists.

The return of the population bombers

6 August, 2012

Overpopulation ideology undermined the environmental movement in the 1970s, diverting social protest into harmless channels. To prevent a similar setback today, we must understand populationism’s conservative role, and why it is attractive to a growing number of green activists. As … Continue reading

David Attenborough filming in Antarctica for the documentary Frozen Planet.

David Attenborough asks corporations to protect wilderness from overpopulation

24 January, 2012

Regular readers of Climate & Capitalism know that David Attenborough, in addition to making nature films, is a patron of Optimum Population Trust, a British outfit that, using the name Population Matters, promotes birth control for poor people and immigration … Continue reading

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