Author: Madeline Weld
Madeline Weld is a toxicologist evaluator at Health Canada (Food Directorate) and president of Population Institute Canada. She is also a humanist of long standing, having joined Humanist Canada (formerly Humanist Association of Canada or HAC) as well as the Humanist Association of Ottawa in the 1990s. She was secretary of HAC from 1999 to 2003 and edited HAC’s quarterly newsletter for several years. Weld is currently on the board of Canadian Humanist Publications, which publishes the quarterly magazine Humanist Perspectives, of which she is one of the three editors. This article is expanded from one that originally appeared in the Spring 2013 (Issue 184) of Humanist Perspectives.
Sadly, Malthus Was Right—Now What?
“Those who deny that overpopulation is a problem say the poor don’t consume much. Yet the poor want nothing more than to consume more.”
This article is available for free to all.Islam: A Totalitarian Package of Religion and Politics
Say that religious belief in general is irrational and often harmful, and few humanists will challenge you. Assert that some religions are more harmful than others, and there will be much less unanimity. Declare emphatically that among currently existing religions, Islam presents a clear and present danger in a way that other religions do not, …