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...persuaded the White House to halt U.S. participation in overseas programs that sanctioned abortion. Nowhere is the slogan pro-life more cruelly inappropriate than in the vast famine-stricken regions of the Third World, where birth and death rates are entwined in a vicious spiral. Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute notes that 40,000 babies die each day from malnutrition and disease, and that many of these deaths occur in areas where overpopulation has destroyed ecosystems vital for human survival...
When he talked to the nation a fortnight ago, President George Bush did not even hint at the problem. Budgets and inside-the-Beltway bickering over appointees have blocked out real life. Meanwhile, Les Brown of Worldwatch Institute quietly sent out copies of his State of the World report, which will reach 250,000 leaders in 150 nations. The report has become something of a bible on the precariousness of our food supply. Brown's warning: if the drought continues, food security could be a bigger problem by fall than military security...
...himself at a crucial turning point: the actions of those now living will determine the future, and possibly the very survival, of the species. "We do not have generations, we only have years, in which to attempt to turn things around," warns Lester Brown, president of the Washington-based Worldwatch Institute. Every individual on the planet must be made aware of its vulnerability and of the urgent need to preserve it. No attempt to protect the environment will be successful in the long run unless ordinary people -- the California housewife, the Mexican peasant, the Soviet factory worker, the Chinese farmer...
Prospects are so dire that some environmentalists urge the world to adopt the goal of cutting in half the earth's population growth rate during the next decade. "That means a call for a two-child family for the world as a whole," explained Lester Brown, president of the Worldwatch Institute. "In some countries there may be a need to set a goal of one child per family." That is a daunting challenge. During the past decade, many of the world's poor nations condemned the notion of family planning as an imperialist and racist scheme touted by the developed...
...most popular form of population control in developing countries is sterilization. Some 98 million women and 35 million men around the world have resorted to that permanent solution. The other current mainstay is abortion, which the Worldwatch Institute's Brown called "a reflection of unmet family- planning needs." An estimated 28 million abortions are performed in Third World nations annually, and an additional 26 million in industrial countries. About half are illegal...