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How Educations Leads to Lower Fertility and Increased Prosperity

11:18 am in Business & Politics, earth policy, population by TreeHugger

elementary school class photo Photo credit: Official U.S. Navy Imagery/Creative Commons This post was written by Brigid Fitzgerald Reading, staff researcher at the Earth Policy Institute. As the world continues to add close to 80 million people each year, high population growth is running up against the limits of our finite planet, threatening global economic and political stab...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Water Shortages Threaten Food Future in the Middle East

4:36 pm in Business & Politics, earth policy, food, lester brown, middle east, wheat by TreeHugger

conserve water shortage photo Photo credit: VinothChandar/Creative Commons Long after the political uprisings in the Middle East have subsided, many underlying challenges that are not now in the news will remain. Prominent among these are rapid population growth, spreading water shortages, and ever growing food insecurity. In some countries, grain production is now falling as aquifers are depleted. After the Ar...Read the full story on TreeHugger