A Biological Holocaust in the Making
By Leon Kolankiewcz March 11, 2013 As a kid, my second favorite animal was the African elephant. My favorite was the woolly... Read More
Tackling the Taboo: Leading environmental activists and scholars take on population in new book
Book review of Life on the Brink: Environmentalists Confront Overpopulation (University of Georgia Press, 2012) When it comes to human overpopulation and... Read More
Too Hot To Touch? Global Warming, Population and Denial
PDF Download: caps_issues_toohot_2012d.pdf By Leon Kolankiewicz, CAPS Senior Writing Fellow Most Americans sense that climate change is happening. They cannot help but... Read More
Reports of slowing illegal immigration to U.S. from Mexico
One thing to keep in mind is that Mexico is just ONE country, albeit the most important source country by far for... Read More
Overpopulation and the Ocean
By Leon Kolankiewicz February 6, 2012 “We all live in a yellow submarine…” crooned the homely voice of Ringo Starr 45 years... Read More
Cassandra’s Heirs – Can We Improve on Her Fate?
By Leon Kolankiewicz CAPS Senior Writing Fellow January 5, 2012 Twenty-seven years ago, at a 1985 conference in Texas, prominent activists and... Read More
The “Age of Man” or a Flash in the Pan?
By Leon Kolankiewicz October 31, 2011 Has Planet Earth been profoundly altered by 7 billion human beings and our ever more potent... Read More
Socially Conscious Mothers – or Environmentally Clueless Mothers?
By Leon Kolankiewicz October 14, 2011 CAPS vice-president Ben Zuckerman is no stranger to protests. The UCLA emeritus professor of physics and... Read More
An Open Letter to the Board of Science
Dear AAAS President and Board, I am very disappointed to learn that AAAS has denied the nonprofit advocacy organization Californians for Population... Read More
Population matters to Population Matters – and it should to all of us
By Leon Kolankiewicz October 14, 2011 The United Nations has designated October 31st, 2011 as the day on which the earth’s human... Read More