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This page acts as my archive

Population matters: website ideas
Brilliant job on the site with clear sectional referencing. When I suggested this I hardly hoped it would be done so well. Outstanding.

Menu changes/end of page links
One of the difficulties with the page is that when a user mouses over the header and onto a section title such as "Issues and solutions" and sees that the side menu appears and seed the list of interesting options like "population" etc. the users may pass through not realising that there even was an accessible section of text directly relating to the section title itself.

Recommendation:

At the bottom of each page a "top" link could be added

Alternatively, a sectional directory could be added at the end of each article. A sectional directory, if you were say on the /issues-solutions/population/ page, could work in a number of ways such as:

Home page > Issues and solutions >> Population (back to top) >>> Aging >>>Conflict & migration >>>Smaller families >>>Reproductive health >>>Women's rights

links

Read YouthQuake – Population, Fertility and Environment in the 21st Century.

Read about Earth’s population problem.

Read about the UK’s population problem.

Read about countryside, development and housing.

http://populationmatters.org/2011/population-matters-news/opt-population-matters-2/  needs date

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/8070601/Chris-Packham-says-control-the-population-to-save-wildlife.html needs adding?

http://www.populationmatters.org/issues-solutions/ ...
expand and add the drop down menu links to the article page to act as an in page directory

possible quotes to add
The Life of Mammals (2002) David Attenborough

Three and a half million years separate the individual who left these footprints in the sands of Africa from the one who left them on the moon. A mere blink in the eye of evolution. Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever-increasing population. In spite of disasters when civilisations have over-reached themselves, that process has continued, indeed accelerated, even today. Now mankind is looking for food, not just on this planet but on others. Perhaps the time has now come to put that process into reverse. Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we control the population to allow the survival of the environment.

Closing lines FINAL EPISODE

"“We cannot continue to deny the problem. People have pushed aside the question of population sustainability and not considered it because it is too awkward, embarrassing and difficult. But we have to talk about it.″ Sir David Attenborough, Patron, Population Matters"

Change a name from: Nicolas Machiavelli to Niccolò Machiavelli ?? and Babetunde Osotimehin to Babatunde Osotimehin

(as a bigger job the quotes could do with referencing)

http://www.populationmatters.org/about/ ...
add section on "think tank" mentioning feedback strengths and mechanisms and the role of discussion in gatherings and on the net and anything else.

people
add section acknowledging people who contribute to the debate or something like that??

add profile on Simon Ross similar to the one for Roger Martin

Members
Can I write something like :

It was considered that voting rights should be given to people who had clear concerns for the issue of population. On this basis it was decided that they should not be easily given to people that might have various other political agendas and who might simply pay a subscription and turn up at an AGM.

Population matters Policy goals
(a paraphrased content of goals follows): Population Matters "recommend that the following should be taken into consideration":
 * an acknowledgement of population growth as one of the factors that increases damage to the environment in a way that reduces everyone’s share of natural resources;
 * the achievement of a stable and ethically acceptable transition to a sustainable population;
 * an acknowledgement that an overall number of carbon emitters increases with all population growth;
 * an improved provision of family planning and sex education;
 * an empowerment of women both generally and specifically in relation to decisions concerning family size;
 * a support of developing countries towards sustainable development and population stabilisation;
 * a personal responsibility to stabilise our numbers;
 * a reduction in unplanned pregnancies supported by better sexual health and relationships education, and by a well funded contraceptive services for all people including adolescents;
 * a minimisation of one country's dependence on the resources of other countries which, in the case of high population, high consumption countries, would be partly achieved through the country's limitation of its immigration rate to the level of its emigration rate;
 * a local meeting of labour demands in high population nations rejecting a case of more young people being required to care of an increasing elderly population so as to avoiding an ecological pyramid in which each generation impoverishes the next;
 * individuals considering how many children they have within tax and benefits systems that balance reproductive rights with social responsibilities;
 * a high level of focus being given to a population policy implementation by senior politicians.

Research and Campaign
Areas of research include: climate change, energy requirements, biodiversity, and other environmental factors in relation to population numbers. Campaigns include: population stabilisation and gradual decrease to sustainable levels for both the world and the United Kingdom. In 2009, the organisation issued a study asserting that contraception was the cheapest way of combating climate change.

PopOffsets
PopOffsets is a Population Matters organized programme that claims to be "the first project in the world that, simply and transparently, enables individuals and organizations to offset their carbon footprint by reducing carbon emissions by supporting family planning."

Views of organisation representatives
"“England is already Europe’s most densely populated country. “Why should we also have Europe’s highest population growth rate?” Simon Ross"

Daily Star

can i have the text ...
https://login.thetimes.co.uk/?gotoUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetimes.co.uk%2Ftto%2Flife%2Ffamilies%2F http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/article4103866.ece

it requires login

add to see also
I = P x A x T

Why not sue them??
Attenborough is a supporter of Population Matters, a creepy outfit who have previously suggested Britain’s optimum population lies around the 20 million mark.

http://www.scotsman.com/news/alex-massie-politics-not-population-causes-starvation-1-3107523

20 million
... have advocated an optimum population for Britain of 20 million people.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/sunder-katwala/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-population_b_1675511.html

Aid doesn't help
"What are all these famines in Ethiopia? What are they about?" he said. "They're about too many people for too little land. That's what it's about. And we are blinding ourselves. We say, get the United Nations to send them bags of flour. That's barmy."

Campaigning
http://www.scotsman.com/news/alex-massie-politics-not-population-causes-starvation-1-3107523

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/420734/Migrants-fuel-UK-baby-boom-One-in-four-now-born-to-foreign-mums

Population Matters ... publicising its campaign for the gradual decrease of the number of people by voluntary means" http://www.mindfulmoney.co.uk/investment-insight/investing-strategy/climate-change-sets-new-investment-agenda/

crowded packed confined living conditions
http://voiceofrussia.com/uk/news/2014_06_02/Englands-population-set-to-soar-to-57-million-by-2022-0055

Cut Childcare costs
Cut childcare costs by having fewer children

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/cut-childcare-costs-by-having-fewer-children-say-population-matters-9089977.html

Comment on government action and inaction
Comment on government action and inaction

http://voiceofrussia.com/uk/news/2014_06_02/Englands-population-set-to-soar-to-57-million-by-2022-0055/

David Willey
The Optimum Population Trust was founded in 1991 by, writer,  David Willey (date? to date?).

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg14319445.400-letter-optimum-population.html

http://populationmatters.org/documents/david_willey.pdf

I had seen a guardian letter that stated his role! any idea where?

Debating
Misunderstanding progressive population concern http://www.opendemocracy.net/simon-ross/misunderstanding-progressive-population-concern

http://www.largerfamilylife.com/2013/09/11/my-channel-5-news-debate-with-population-matters/

emissions
The more people there are, the more emissions there are, and the greater pressure on resources.

http://blog.greenjobs.co.uk/2014/05/30/population-growth-means-emissions/

(no) fines
Mr Ross does not think fines like those imposed on families in China, are appropriate, and recommends sex education, promoting smaller families as socially responsible and removing subsidies for larger families.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthvideo/9817823/Population-will-grow-by-40pc-in-70-years.html

food prices
anything???

prediction of war
and the aversion of war

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1579033/UK-unable-to-sustain-population-says-study.html

persecution
... with occasionally hostile responses.

http://www.newstatesman.com/global-issues/2009/03/world-population-billion-human

quality of life
http://www.populationmatters.org/what-you-can-do/small-family/

transport
the rising population will cause overcrowding on transport

http://voiceofrussia.com/uk/news/2014_06_02/Englands-population-set-to-soar-to-57-million-by-2022-0055

Secret identity occupations

 * Aristocrat/Nobleperson: The Scarlet Pimpernel, Zorro
 * Business magnate: Batman, Blue Beetle (Ted Kord), Green Arrow, Iron Fist, Iron man
 * Flight Attendant: Daytripper
 * Lawyer: Daredevil, She-Hulk, Manhunter (Kate Spencer)
 * Magician: Zatanna
 * Miner, American Ace
 * National ruler: Black Panther
 * Model: Vixen
 * Nomad-Vagrant: The Hulk, The Punisher, Spawn
 * Nurse, Wonder Woman
 * Office clerk: Mr Incredible
 * Pilot, Rocketeer
 * Photographer: Spider-man
 * Police operative: The Flash, Raven
 * Reporter: Captain Marvel, Green Hornet, Question, Superman
 * Scientist: Ant-man, Captain Britain
 * Singer: Dazzler
 * Student, in a non superhero related establishment : Batman (Terry McGinnis), Spider-man, Static (DC Comics) , Superboy (Kal-El)
 * Teacher, in a non superhero related establishment : Lionheart
 * Students and staff, within a superhero related establishment : Students and staff at the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, Students and staff at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning, Students and staff at the New Charles Xavier School for Mutants

Reproductive rights

The issue of reproductive rights is frequently mentioned in discussions and articles by organisations campaigning for population stabilisation. An example is Population Matters who have a claimed goal of a sustainable future that they claim to aim to achieve through education, research, lobbying and campaigning.

now
Executive Summary
 * 1) It is forbidden in Islam to issue fatwas without all the necessary learning requirements. Even then fatwas must follow Islamic legal theory as defined in the Classical texts. It is also forbidden to cite a portion of a verse from the Qur’an—or part of a verse—to derive a ruling without looking at everything that the Qur’an and Hadith teach related to that matter. In other words, there are strict subjective and objective prerequisites for fatwas, and one cannot ‘cherry-pick’ Qur’anic verses for legal arguments without considering the entire Qur’an and Hadith.
 * 2) It is forbidden in Islam to issue legal rulings about anything without mastery of the Arabic language.
 * 3) It is forbidden in Islam to oversimplify Shari’ah matters and ignore established Islamic sciences.
 * 4) It is permissible in Islam [for scholars] to differ on any matter, except those fundamentals of religion that all Muslims must know.
 * 5) It is forbidden in Islam to ignore the reality of contemporary times when deriving legal rulings.
 * 6) It is forbidden in Islam to kill the innocent.
 * 7) It is forbidden in Islam to kill emissaries, ambassadors, and diplomats; hence it is forbidden to kill journalists and aid workers.
 * 8) Jihad in Islam is defensive war. It is not permissible without the right cause, the right purpose and without the right rules of conduct.
 * 9) It is forbidden in Islam to declare people non-Muslim unless he (or she) openly declares disbelief.
 * 10) It is forbidden in Islam to harm or mistreat—in any way—Christians or any ‘People of the Scripture’.
 * 11) It is obligatory to consider Yazidis as People of the Scripture.
 * 12) The re-introduction of slavery is forbidden in Islam. It was abolished by universal consensus.
 * 13) It is forbidden in Islam to force people to convert.
 * 14) It is forbidden in Islam to deny women their rights.
 * 15) It is forbidden in Islam to deny children their rights.
 * 16) It is forbidden in Islam to enact legal punishments (hudud) without following the correct procedures that ensure justice and mercy.
 * 17) It is forbidden in Islam to torture people.
 * 18) It is forbidden in Islam to disfigure the dead.
 * 19) It is forbidden in Islam to attribute evil acts to God.
 * 20) It is forbidden in Islam to destroy the graves and shrines of Prophets and Companions.
 * 21) Armed insurrection is forbidden in Islam for any reason other than clear disbelief by the ruler and not allowing people to pray.
 * 22) It is forbidden in Islam to declare a caliphate without consensus from all Muslims.
 * 23) Loyalty to one’s nation is permissible in Islam.
 * 24) After the death of the Prophet, Islam does not require anyone to emigrate anywhere.

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful Praise be to God, Lord of the Worlds, Peace and Blessings be upon the Seal of the Prophets and Messengers By the declining day, Lo! man is a state of loss, Save those who believe and do good works, and exhort one another to truth and exhort one another to endurance. ('Al-‘Asr, 103: 1-3''') Open Letter''' To Dr. Ibrahim Awwad Al-Badri, alias ‘Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi’, To the fighters and followers of the self-declared ‘Islamic State’, Peace and the mercy of God be upon you. During your sermon dated 6th of Ramadan 1435 AH (4th July 2014 CE), you said, paraphrasing Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq : ‘If you find what I say and do to be true, then assist me, and if you find what I say and do to be false, then advise me and set me straight.’ In what follows is a scholarly opinion via the media. The Prophet said: ‘Religion is [rectifying] advice.’ Everything said here below relies completely upon the statements and actions of followers of the ‘Islamic State’ as they themselves have promulgated in social media—or upon Muslim eyewitness accounts—and not upon other media. Every effort has been made to avoid fabrications and misunderstandings. Moreover, everything said here consists of synopses written in a simple style that reflect the opinions of the overwhelming majority of Sunni scholars over the course of Islamic history.

In one of his speeches, Abu Muhammad Al-Adnani said: ‘God bless Prophet Muhammad who was sent with the sword as a mercy to all worlds.’ This statement comprises compounded confusions and a mistaken paradigm. Yet it is often repeated by followers of the ‘Islamic State’. Now God sent the Prophet Muhammad as a mercy to all worlds: ‘We did not send you, except as a mercy to all the worlds.’ (Al-Anbiya’, 22: 107). This is true for all time and place. The Prophet was sent as mercy to people, animals, plants, to the heavens and to subtle beings—no Muslims disagree about this. It is a general and unconditional statement taken from the Qur’an itself. However, the phrase, ‘sent with the sword’ is part of a Hadith that is specific to a certain time and place which have since expired. Thus it is forbidden to mix the Qur’an and Hadith in this way, as it is forbidden to mix the general and specific, and the conditional and unconditional.

Moreover, God has prescribed mercy upon Himself: ‘… Your Lord has prescribed for Himself mercy …’ (Al-An’am, 6:54). God also states that His mercy encompasses all things: ‘… My mercy embraces all things …’ (Al-A’raf, 7:156). In an authentic Hadith, the Prophet said: ‘When God created Creation, He wrote in place above His throne, with Himself “Truly, My mercy is greater than My wrath.”’ Accordingly, it is forbidden to equate ‘the sword’—and thus wrath and severity—with ‘mercy’. Furthermore, it is forbidden to make the idea ‘mercy to all worlds’ subordinate to the phrase ‘sent with the sword’, because this would mean that mercy is dependent upon the sword, which is simply not true. Besides, how could ‘a sword’ affect realms where swords have no effect, such as the heavens, subtle beings and plants? The Prophet Muhammad’s being a mercy to all the worlds cannot possibly be conditional upon his having taken up the sword (at one point in time, for a particular reason and in a particular context). This point is not merely academic. Rather, it reveals the essence of much of what is to follow since it erroneously equates the sword and Divine mercy.

English Rose
English Rose usually refers to one of England's national emblems, the Tudor Rose. The term is also a complimentary description of an English lady of fair complexion. The latter is intrisic to English romantic imagery. Recently prevelent in the Pre-Raphaelite movement, as a reflection of older references to fair English women, where in pre-Arthurian texts the Celtic derivation of pale, 'Gwen', was given to Arthur's wife, and the term 'fair', beyond a quality of complexion, became synonymous with beauty, gentleness, purity, and association with nature and landscape.

People who have been described with the words "English rose" include: Gemma Arterton, Kate Beckinsale, Emily Blunt, Helena Bonham Carter, Emilia Clarke, Princess Diana, Alice Eve, Emilia Fox, Keira Knightley, Anna Friel, Elizabeth Hurley, Kate Middleton, Sienna Miller, Helen Mirren, Jane Seymour, Elizabeth Taylor, Emma Watson, Rachel Weisz, Holly Willoughby,

I never wanted to be an English rose. Now I know I'm not.,

English Rose may also refer to:


 * Roses bred by David Austin.
 * English Rose an album by rock band Fleetwood Mac.
 * English Rose a song by The Jam.
 * The English Roses a children's book by singer Madonna.

Agriculture in the United Kingdom
Oilseed rape Linseed Table 7.7 Sugar beet Table 7.8 Peas and beans harvested dry Table 7.9 Fresh vegetables Table 7.10 Plants and flowers Table 7.11 Potatoes Table 7.12 Fresh fruit Table 8.1 Cattle and calves; beef and veal Table 8.2 Pigs and pig meat Table 8.3 Sheep and lambs; mutton and lamb Table 8.4 Poultry and poultry meat Table 8.5 Milk Table 8.6 Hen eggs

contacts
Professor Sir John Beddington "j.beddington@imperial.ac.uk" 

List of advocates of population moderation
Here is a chronologically compiled list of people that have made notable population related comments that have been posted by Population Matters :

Stasinos poet , Confucius philosopher , Aristotle philosopher , Tertullian theologian , Niccolò Machiavelli writer , Richard Hakluyt writer , James Madison US President , Thomas Malthus clergyman, scholar , Ralph Waldo Emerson writer, John Stuart Mill philosopher , Arnold Toynbee economic historian , Bertrand Russell philosopher , Max Born physicist , Albert Einstein physicist , Helen Keller author, activist, lecturer , John Maynard Keynes economist, Jawaharlal Nehru Prime Minister of India , Aldous Huxley writer , Paul VI Pope , Lyndon B Johnson US President , Peter Scott founder of WWF , Kenneth Boulding economist , Jacques Cousteau conservationist , Sam Levenson humourist , Richard M. Nixon US President , Norman Borlaug “father” of Green Revolution, Robert McNamara President of World Bank , Christian de Duve biologist , Spike Milligan comedian , James Lovelock environmentalist , Pete Seeger musician , Digby McLaren geologist , Isaac Asimov author , Prince Philip Royal consort , James P. Grant UN Under-Secretary-General , Albert Bartlett physicist , George H.W. Bush US President , Gore Vidal writer , Queen Elizabeth II British monarch , David Attenborough naturalist , Gunther Grass author , Bernard Chidzero economist and politician , Maurice Strong UN Under-Secretary-General , Martin Luther King clergyman, activist , Douglas Hurd UK Foreign Secretary , Crispin Tickell environmentalist , Aubrey Manning zoologist , Karan Singh politician , Paul Ehrlich biologist , Baroness Flather politician , Jane Goodall conservationist , Norman Myers environmentalist , Tenzin Gyatso 14th Dalai Lama , George Carey Archbishop , Morgan Freeman actor , Jane Fonda actor, activist , Kofi Annan UN Secretary-General , Margaret Atwood novelist , David King chemist , Partha Dasgupta economist , Stephen Hawking physicist , Michael Palin comedian , Helen Mirren actor , Joanna Lumley actor , Thoraya Ahmed Obaid UN Under-Secretary-General , Ian Angus socialist , Sara Parkin activist, politician , Michael Buerk journalist , Hillary Rodham Clinton US Secretary of State , John Gray philosopher , Al Gore US Vice President , Jeremy Irons actor , Babatunde Osotimehin UN Under-Secretary-General , Richard Branson business leader , John Guillebaud medical doctor, academic , Jonathon Porritt environmentalist , Barbara Stocking Chief Executive: Oxfam , Bob Geldof musician , Fred Pearce environmental writer , Jon Shanklin meteorologist , Baroness Amos UN Under-Secretary-General , Bill Gates business leader , Bill Nye educator , Goodluck Jonathan President of Nigeria , Lionel Shriver author , Kate Humble television presenter , Jeanette Winterson author , Adrian Hayes polar explorer , Rupert Everett actor , James Gasana agriculture minister , Stephen Emmott scientist , Chris Packham naturalist , George Monbiot writer , Dan Brown author , Boris Johnson politician , Guy Pearce actor , Ashley Judd actor , Julia Bradbury presenter , Cameron Diaz actress and Prince William Duke.

A
 * Edward Abbey author and essayist
 * Baroness Amos UN Under-Secretary-General
 * David Attenborough naturalist
 * Ian Angus socialist
 * Kofi Annan UN Secretary-General
 * Aristotle philosopher
 * Margaret Atwood novelist
 * Isaac Asimov author

B
 * Norman Borlaug “father” of Green Revolution
 * Albert Bartlett physicist
 * Max Born physicist
 * Kenneth Boulding economist
 * Julia Bradbury presenter
 * Richard Branson business leader
 * David Brower environmentalist
 * Dan Brown author
 * Michael Buerk journalist
 * George H.W. Bush US President

C
 * George Carey Archbishop
 * Bernard Chidzero economist and politician
 * Hillary Rodham Clinton US Secretary of State
 * Confucius philosopher
 * Jacques Cousteau conservationist

D
 * Partha Dasgupta economist
 * Christian de Duve biologist
 * Cameron Diaz actress

E
 * Paul Ehrlich biologist
 * Albert Einstein physicist
 * Queen Elizabeth II British monarch
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson writer
 * Stephen Emmott scientist
 * Rupert Everett actor

F
 * Peter Farb author, anthropologist, ecologist
 * Jane Fonda actor, activist
 * David Foreman environmentalist
 * Baroness Flather politician
 * Morgan Freeman actor

G
 * Bill Gates business leader
 * Bob Geldof musician
 * Al Gore US Vice President
 * James P. Grant UN Under-Secretary-General
 * Gunther Grass author
 * John Gray philosopher
 * Jane Goodall conservationist
 * John Guillebaud medical doctor, academic
 * Tenzin Gyatso 14th Dalai Lama

H
 * Richard Hakluyt writer
 * Garrett Hardin environmentalist
 * Stephen Hawking physicist
 * Adrian Hayes polar explorer
 * Kate Humble television presenter
 * Aldous Huxley writer
 * Douglas Hurd UK Foreign Secretary

I
 * Jeremy Irons actor

J
 * Boris Johnson politician
 * Lyndon B Johnson US President
 * Goodluck Jonathan President of Nigeria
 * Ashley Judd actor

K
 * Helen Keller author, activist, lecturer
 * Henry Way Kendall Nobel Laureate, Physics
 * Nathan Keyfitz demographer
 * John Maynard Keynes economist
 * David King chemist

L
 * Sam Levenson humourist
 * James Lovelock environmentalist
 * Martin Luther King, Jr. clergyman, activist
 * Joanna Lumley actor

M
 * Niccolò Machiavelli writer
 * Digby McLaren geologist
 * Bill McKibben environmentalist
 * Robert McNamara President of World Bank
 * James Madison US President
 * Nelson Mandela revolutionary, politician 
 * Thomas Malthus clergyman, scholar
 * Aubrey Manning zoologist
 * George Perkins Marsh US diplomat
 * John Stuart Mill philosopher
 * Spike Milligan comedian
 * Helen Mirren actor
 * George Monbiot writer
 * Farley Mowat author, environmentalist
 * Norman Myers environmentalist

N
 * Jawaharlal Nehru Prime Minister of India
 * Richard M. Nixon US President
 * Bill Nye educator

O
 * Thoraya Obaid UN Under-Secretary-General
 * Babatunde Osotimehin UN Under-Secretary-General

P
 * Chris Packham naturalist
 * Michael Palin comedian
 * Sara Parkin activist, politician
 * Paul VI Pope
 * Fred Pearce environmental writer
 * Prince Philip Royal consort
 * Jonathon Porritt environmentalist

R
 * Ronald Reagan U.S. President
 * John D. Rockefeller, III philanthropist
 * Bertrand Russell philosopher

S
 * Peter Scott founder of WWF
 * Margaret Sanger  birth control activist
 * Pete Seeger musician
 * Jon Shanklin meteorologist
 * Lionel Shriver author
 * Karan Singh politician
 * William G. Sinkford religious leader
 * B.F. Skinner psychologist and author
 * Maurice Strong UN Under-Secretary-General

T
 * Tertullian theologian
 * Crispin Tickell environmentalist
 * Arnold Toynbee economic historian

V
 * Gore Vidal writer

W
 * Paul Watson environmental activist
 * E. O. Wilson author, "father of biodiversity"

http://economiedurable.over-blog.com/pages/Citations-4992710.html