Author – The Durango Herald

Knowing Ukrainian refugees makes war much more personal

“We believe that widespread, effective and voluntary use of medically sound and individually acceptable birth control is an essential factor in any humane design to raise world living standa...

DATE: Mar 26, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Joining family planning with cultural tradition lowers birth rate

Last month, I wrote about the five countries I have enjoyed visiting in Africa, including citing their amazingly low per capita GDP. Although most of the population growth over the next deca...

DATE: Feb 27, 2022 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

African countries need to slow population growth to prevent famine

I have had the good fortune to have visited five of the 54 countries in Africa. Each has left me with a strong image. When I think of Cairo, Egypt, I think of a man leading a donkey cart wit...

DATE: Jan 30, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Give thanks for good news about population growth

The world our three granddaughters will inherit will be different from the world that we have known. I hope that their world in half a century is not too ghastly – and there is reason to sup...

DATE: Nov 28, 2021 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Chastise Texas about its abortion law

There is no such thing as banning abortion, there is only banning safe abortion. Texas has just passed the country’s most draconian and restrictive law on abortion, which the Supreme Court i...

DATE: Nov 1, 2021 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

This UN population conference changed my life

Twenty-five years ago, I was in hot Cairo for the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development. It changed the direction the world has taken and also was life-changi...

DATE: Dec 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Richard Grossman: This book sets worthy climate change priorities

How can we reverse global warming? That question needs many answers, and the best approach is in the new book “Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming.”...

DATE: Sep 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

You can help save the planet in an electric car

Last month, I wrote about the car accident that changed my wife Gail’s and my lives. I want to thank the engineers who designed the Prius; it gave up its life to save ours. We wer...

DATE: Jul 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Respect for ‘Population Bomb’

A friend sent me a copy of Paul Ehrlich’s classic, “The Population Bomb.” I had never read it, although it helped to launch concern about human population in the USA. It was diffe...

DATE: May 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

This is modern natural family planning

In 1965, I visited a medical meeting where an Australian couple, both physicians, advocated a new natural family planning method. The Doctors Billings claimed their method was ver...

DATE: Apr 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Rwanda has come quite far with planning

A friend told me about the International Conference on Family Planning to be held in Rwanda, and asked if I planned to go. I responded: “I am ambivalent about Rwanda; the country ...

DATE: Mar 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Population Matters

Fight over-population denial

I first met people who denied the population problem in 1994 at the International Conference on Population and Development. They supported their claim that there was no population...

DATE: Feb 23, 2019 | CATEGORY: Population Matters