About NewPopulationBomb

NewPopulationBomb is Jack A. Goldstone’s blog on global policy and national politics.

NewPopulationBomb examines everything from revolutions and global conflicts to fiscal problems and immigration issues, informed by a perspective focusing on the impact of population change.  Welcome!

Jack A. Goldstone, author of “The New Population Bomb” in Foreign Affairs (Jan-Feb 2010), is the Virginia E. and John T. Hazel, Jr. Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Center for Global Policy at George Mason University.  He is also a Senior Fellow at the Mercatus Center and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  Professor Goldstone’s books include Revolutions of the Late 20th Century (1991), Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World (1991), The Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions (1998), States, Parties and Social Movements (2003), Why Europe:  The Rise of the West in World History (2008), and Political Demography: How Population Changes are Shaping International Security and National Politics (2012).  He edits Foreign Policy Bulletin, which provides a documentary record of U.S. Foreign Policy.

2 Responses to About NewPopulationBomb

  1. Mr. Gladstone is doing a great service to the humanity, democracy and human rights by focusing on population explosion and demography, which are virtually a taboo in Indian public discourse at present. The world needs more Gladstones. I feel inspired by Prof. Gladstone’s work as I am myself advocate population control as the key to sustainable development and prevention of transformation of a democracy into anarchy. I wish Indian Parliament implements the Agenda for India that it unanimously approved in 1996 and that has forthrightly dealt with the issue of population explosion- n. minocha (nareshminocha.com) an Indian journalist.

  2. Achim Wolf says:

    Ladies and Gentlemen,

    Scientists warn of a rapid collapse of the Earth’s ecosystem.
    The ecological balance is under threat: climate change, population growth and environmental degradation could lead even in this century an irreversible collapse of the global ecosystem.

    –> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/06/06/scientists-uncover-evidence-of-impending-tipping-point-for-earth/

    The cardinal reason is the sudden development of human population that threatens to devour all our resources.

    Since 21 August there is therefore a petition at change.org for the introduction of global birth-controls, also in HINDI!

    If you want to support this or publish it on your website, here is the link:
    http://www.change.org/de/Petitionen/weltweite-geburtenregelungen-verbindlich-einf%C3%BChren-introduce-obligatory-worldwide-birth-controls

    Please continue to spread the link or the petition as possible to all interested people, organisations etc.

    Thank you and best regards
    Achim Wolf, Germany

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