Seven Billion Reasons

By Suzanne Petroni Oct 27, 2011 These are daunting numbers, almost as unfathomable as that looming 7 billion figure. But there's no need to turn away because the scope of the problem is simply too large to comprehend.Chances are, you'll hear or read soon that the world's population is about to hit 7 billion. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Global Population Expected to Continue Exploding

Staff / Truthdig May 4, 2011 The U.N. forecasts the world will hold more than 10 billion people by the end of the century, including a tripling of Africa's population. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Food Bomb

Barry Lando / Truthdig Feb 1, 2011 The world will need 70 percent more food in 2050 than it produced in 2000, but the resources available are plummeting. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

The ‘Human’ Factor Missing in Copenhagen

Ellen Goodman / Truthdig Dec 10, 2009 Countries are wrangling over everything about human-induced climate change except the increasing number of humans inducing it. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Muslims a Fourth of World’s Population

Staff / Truthdig Oct 8, 2009 The internationality of Islam is emphasized by a new Pew Research study that found one in four people in the world to be Muslim. With 1.57 billion adherents, Islam ranks second only to 2.25 billion-strong Christianity. The study's findings counter the disparaging, stereotyping notions that many in the West have of "the Muslim World." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Yet Another Reason Why War in Afghanistan Is a Bad Idea

Staff / Truthdig Sep 18, 2009 Numerous historical examples have demonstrated that attempting to go to war in Afghanistan isn't really the best plan, what with the tricky geography and all, yet here we are, eight years into just that very scenario. Along with the landscape-oriented issues, The Wall Street Journal has noted yet another reason that this war is dragging on without a clear end in sight. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

You Want the Good News or the Bad News?

Mike Keefe, The Denver Post Apr 23, 2009 Dig deeper

We Are Breeding Ourselves to Extinction

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Mar 9, 2009 All efforts to save the planet will be useless if we do not cut population growth. By 2050, the planet will have between 8 billion and 10 billion people, according to a recent U.N. forecast. And yet studies, books and documentaries that deal with various crises fail to discuss the danger of all those billions of hungry people looking for a better life. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Gaza’s Baby Boom

Staff / Truthdig Feb 16, 2009 According to a Palestinian census, the population of Gaza jumped by 40 percent between 1997 and 2007. West Bank officials expect the Gaza population, which they estimate at 1.4 million, to double over the next 21 years. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

From the Annals of Retired Fascist Baby Names

Staff / Truthdig Nov 25, 2008 The Movimento Sociale-Fiamma Tricolore party in Italy has offered to pay $1,940 to parents who name their children after Benito Mussolini or his wife Rachele. The "purely casual" name game is meant to address low birthrates and not fascist nostalgia, according to the far-right party. Sure. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

1 in 100 American Adults in Jail

Staff / Truthdig Feb 29, 2008 So much for the "war on crime": According to a new report from the Pew Center on the States, 1 in 100 American adults is now in jail The report states that "current prison growth is not driven primarily by a parallel increase in crime, or a corresponding surge in the population at large"; instead, "it flows principally from a wave of policy choices that are sending more lawbreakers to prison and keeping them there longer". Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

U.S. Has More Prisoners Than Any Other Country

Staff / Truthdig Dec 12, 2006 The United States has the largest prison population in the world, with 2.2 million people in prison and 7 million in prison, on probation or on parole. China, which has about a billion more people than the U.S., has only 1.5 million prisoners. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )