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Article: Are there too many people? 'Stabilising' human population and the anti-natalists
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- Review - Institute of Public Affairs
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- October 1, 2007
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A demographic spectre is haunting authoritative and influential circles.
This spectre is the supposed imperative to 'stabilise human population'. That objective is today embraced by a panoply of subsidiary institutions within the 'UN family', including the United Nations Environmental Programme, the United Nations Children's Fund, and the United Nations Population Fund, which explicitly declared its mission in 2002 to be the promotion of the 'universally accepted aim of stabilising world population'.'
That goal of 'stabilising human population' is also championed by a broad network of population and environmental advocacy groups, including most prominently Planned Parenthood and the Sierra ...