Tapestry Press
Misplaced Blame
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Tapestry Press
Misplaced Blame
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Misplaced
Blame, the Real Roots of Population Growth.
Alan T. Durning &
Christopher D. Crowther.
July, 1997. NEW Report No. 5, Northwest Environmental Watch, Alan
Durning and Christopher Crowther
debunk myths about the causes of human population growth.
They argue that five factors account for population growth: child
poverty, sexual abuse, inadequate family planning services, subsidies to
domestic migration and misguided immigration laws.
They present compelling personal stories and statistics from the Women
don’t have babies and then become poor; after they become poor, they have
babies. Poverty
increases the birth rate by one-third.
Contrary to popular myth, per capita teen births are now lower than in
1970, 1950, 1890 or 1850.
Paige
Latin’s first memory from age two is of a yellow bathroom where a man sexually
assaulted her. At age thirteen she
first recognized that repeated forced sexual encounters was not the norm.
After horrific years as a prostitute and using drugs, she now educates
teens to prevent sexual abuse and prostitution.
She’s become part of the solution.
Armed
with this information, smart governments can simultaneously address these five
issues, improve the lives of their citizens and halt population growth. Review
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