Author: Karen Shragg

Author’s Note: This essay is dedicated to the loving memory of the ever-wise Tom Flynn, who graciously printed so many of my articles over the years on this topic because he shared my deep concern. What more can be said about the oppression of overpopulation that I and my colleagues have not pontificated on for …

In his 2015 book The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom, Michael Shermer makes a well-supported argument that the secular domain has done more good for the world than the domain of religion. He writes: “The scientific revolution led to the Age of Reason and to the Enlightenment …

Search the literature; read the news; comb the mission statements and recommendations of various environmental nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and it will become obvious how climate change utterly dominates public discourse, leaving the overpopulation issue behind. The average global per-person carbon footprint is 4.9 metric tons per year, according to the Global Footprint Network. Multiplied by …

Yep. If I were African American, Latino, or Native American, I wouldn’t believe my own rhetoric. Why should I? White people have been in charge for so long and oppressed so much that libraries cannot contain all the atrocities that have occurred just in the United States. From slavery to genocide, from Jim Crow laws …

“If we want our dreams for a better world to come true, we have to recognize the significance of reducing human numbers.”