Author – The Durango Herald

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

Celebrating two decades of ‘Population Matters!’

Twenty years ago this spring, Morley Ballantine (then the Herald’s editor) gave me the responsibility of writing a column about human population issues. I want to take this oppor...

DATE: May 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Acknowledge the true cost of ‘cheap’ electricity

Did you know the federal government is shortchanging us citizens by a billion dollars a year? Cozy deals with the feds are allowing private enterprise to underpay for natural resources. ...

DATE: Apr 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Get rid of investments in dirty forms of energy

Our planet could support many more people if each person consumed less. One of the largest problems caused by our consumption is greenhouse-gas emissions from using fossil fuels. ...

DATE: Mar 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Congo an example of how family planning works

In a previous article, I wrote about how it was possible for one doctor to perform hundreds of tubal ligations in one day – but probably not honor the rights of the patients. The next column...

DATE: Feb 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Family planning programs must preclude abuse

The London Summit on Family Planning in 2012 was the start of a new focus on family planning. The last time family planning had received so much attention was the Cairo conference in 1994. ...

DATE: Jan 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

World should condemn ‘assembly line’ sterilizations

News media focused in November on more than a dozen deaths in India after women had surgery at a sterilization “camp.” Authorities suspect that the surgeon caused the deaths, so he is in pri...

DATE: Dec 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Population Matters