Maude Barlow, senior adviser on water to the United Nations and author of Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Fight for the Right to Water
Catholic Laboratory: Dear Sir David Attenborough …
In this episode of we address Sir David Attenborough’s call for population control as featured in BBC2’s Science programme Horizon on 9th Dec 2009. (http://www.catholiclab.net)
A commentary with helpful tips in dealing with the important global issues that the show brought up. Also, a look at the many things that Sir David Attenborough either glossed over or DIDN’T say in his gloom-and-doom show.
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Our Water Commons: Toward a Rights Based Solution to the Global Water Crisis
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Drug War Statistics: A Critical Analysis of Claims Made by the Office of National Drug Control Policy | CATO Book Forum, 31 May 2007
CATO Institute | Book Forum, 31 May 2007 Lies, Damned Lies, and Drug War Statistics: A Critical Analysis of Claims Made by the Office of National Drug Control Policy (State University of New York Press, 2007)
Featuring the authors: Matthew B. Robinson, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Appalachian State University and Renee G. Scherlen, Associate Professor of Political Science, Appalachian State University; with comments by Dr. David Murray, Senior Policy Analyst, Office of National Drug Control Policy; moderated by Timothy Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute.
Each year the Office of National Drug Control Policy publishes a report called The National Drug Control Strategy. Those reports are supposed to provide information about trends in drug use and assess federal programs that are aimed at reducing the supply of and demand for illegal drugs. Policymakers rely on that information in making budget decisions and holding executive branch agencies accountable. Matthew B. Robinson and Renee G. Scherlen conducted an independent review of those reports, and their research found numerous instances in which information was distorted to justify continuing the war on drugs. Join us for a discussion of the use and abuse of statistics and of policy recommendations for changing the federal approach to problems associated with drug use.
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2050: A Hypothetical Future
With a current world population of 6.8 billion, projected to be 9 billion by 2050, what will our lives be like in another fifty years? Our consumption is causing scarcity of resources, food production is struggling to meet demand, almost everything we do destroys delicate ecosystems and our greenhouse gas emissions keep growing.
Meanwhile, we all believe in a basic human right to reproduce. This UTSpeaks presents a diverse panel of UTS experts to speculate on a future where overpopulation may be the key force impacting every aspect of human life.