| COMMENT |
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| Change the Record |
| The general election: some of our best friends are anarchists, but . . . |
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| A Movement of People |
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| Tobacco Road |
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| NEWS SHORTS |
| Farmers For Action in Action; World Bank Grades Countries for Landgrabbers; French Farmers Furious; Only 100 Harvests Left; GM Labelling in Vermont; Monsanto Litigious Again; No More Schnews; Forest Dwellers Fight Dam; IMF in Ukraine. |
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| POPULATION |
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| Towards Ten Billion |
| An introduction in which The Editors survey the territory. |
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| Vox Pop |
| Simon Fairlie compares different approaches taken towards the population question. |
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| Spuriously Neutral Mathematics |
| Population numbers offer no useful pointers to policies, says The Cornerhouse. |
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| Reconciling Differences |
| There is a place to mention population and a place not to mention it, says Frances Kissling. |
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| We Can Pursue Two Big Issues at the Same Time |
| Let’s tackle population and consumption, says Jonathan Porritt. |
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| The Consumption Bomb |
| Fred Pearce argues that it is corporations, not populations, which cause pressure on land. |
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| Out of Sight in the Cities |
| Is urbanisation a solution for overpopulation, or a way of distancing the problem? |
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| Feeding the Nine Billion |
| Ed Hamer on the way the population issue is used to promote agribusiness. |
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| Anthropocene Defaunation |
| We couldn’t find anyone who would write about rewilding a world of 10 billion people. |
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| This Elephant is a Red Herring |
| Restricting immigration is no solution to overpopulation, writes Mike Hannis. |
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| The Hare and the Tortoise |
| Simon Fairlie reasons that as the birth rate stabilises, longevity will become the big issue. |
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| Singular Lives |
| The history of the booming “Childfree” movement is traced by Gill Barron. |
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| Repro, Techno, Bingo |
| Gill Barron peers into the dark side of ART – Assisted Reproductive Technology. |
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| Small is Dutiful |
| And finally, yes, we do have a solution to the overpopulation problem. |
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| FEATURES |
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| No Puçaran |
| We, like sheep, will no longer stray, thanks to microchips. |
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| 1000 Cow Factories |
| Farmers occupy the first French megadairy. |
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| The True Cost of Cheap Milk |
| Philip Lymbery visits the spiritual home of the cow factory. |
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| Forty Years of Longo Maï |
| Life begins for the pan-European network of radical farm communities. |
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| Kenya Clearance |
| Jyoti Fernandes visits the Sengwer who are being forced off their land for a carbon offset scheme. |
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| A Cautionary Tale |
| Fine rural ideals, pity about the fascist tendencies. Simon Fairlie examines the Distributists. |
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| Green Rising |
| Fine communist ideals, pity about the urban bias. Simon Fairlie reviews Mitrany’s 'Marx Versus the Peasant'. |
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| What’s the Hitch? |
| Hitchhiking dead? Not yet, says Adam Weymouth |
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| Fencing the Dyke |
| Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: but Hugh Colvin removes trees from Offa’s Dyke in a Land Rover. |
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| Don’t Even Think About It |
| Gill Barron reviews George Marshall’s book analysing climate inertia. |
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| CHAPTER 7 |
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| Self-Build Vanguards |
| Self-build local development orders? Nice work if we can get it. |
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| Enforcement |
| As Pickles tightens the screw, Hounslow wins this years’ award for evicting people. |
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| Second Homes a Human Right? |
| James Shorten takes the planning minister to task. |
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| Housebuilders Offset Carbon and Orchids |
| The offset mindset worms its way into the banal world of planning. |
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| Barn Conversion |
| As we feared – a bonanza for landowners. |
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| Worrying Times for Geese |
| Another common is being privatised. |
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| One Planet Council |
| The One Planet movement is gathering momentum. |
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