Comments on: Toilets Help Stop Overpopulation – Heres How

By: Water.org » Girls with toilets have fewer children (Twilight Earth)

Water.org » Girls with toilets have fewer children (Twilight Earth) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:47:44 +0000

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By: Pete Murphy

Pete Murphy — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:53:13 +0000

However, improvements in sanitation in third world countries reduce the death rate much, much faster than any small decrease in the birth rate. The result is a population explosion.

Economic development is the cause of overpopulation, not the cure. That’s not to suggest that living standards shouldn’t be improved. Rather, we need to recognize development’s potential for exploding populations and be prepared with other programs to address the problem.

Pete Murphy

Author, “Five Short Blasts”

By: Adam Shake

Adam Shake — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:39:43 +0000

You are welcome Wendy. It’s humbling when you know that the worst moment of your life is when you spill the coffee down the front of on your white shirt on the way to work, and then you hear about girls that have to dig holes in the dirt to defecate, and how that series of events leads to unwanted pregnancies and over population. How fortunate we are.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:34:41 +0000

I am also speechless… my heart goes out to these girls. Thank you for writing this article and educating someone who has been known to whine when the Family bathroom is occupied at the store.

By: solargroupies

solargroupies — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:21:16 +0000

This peek into the brutal realities of less fortunate peoples’ lives, in light of luxuries we take for granted underscores the need to fix worldwide poverty, for many reasons and Water.org is a good start.

By: cameron burgess

cameron burgess — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:15:19 +0000

brilliant article – nice to see such a clean and simple way of binding together two of the biggest problems we face regarding living sustainably as a species

By: Adam Shake

Adam Shake — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:25:50 +0000

Thanks for the comment, and for the link Bethe! I’ll check it out.

By: Bethe

Bethe — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:03:42 +0000

Great and fascinating post, Adam. It’s amazing the wide-spread impact of programs and campaigns targeted specifically at girls and women can have on the environment, public health, education and other global issues. One of my favorite groups is The Girl Effect. Powerful stuff.

http://www.girleffect.org/

Cheers- Bethe

By: nan

nan — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:48:48 +0000

Wow! I am speechless. There is so much we don’t know about other cultures, and we take our cushy American lifestyle for granted, always whining.