Press release
For a press release about the Global Population Speak Out, click here.
Media coverage
Apr. 10, 10pm MST: Post-GPSO, tune in for a live, one hour interview with John Feeney on the Jordan Rich Show on WBZ News Radio 1030 in Boston. This show reaches 38 states and parts of Canada. Topics will include GPSO, the population taboo, and the link between overpopulation and the global environmental crisis.
Mar. 1: Steve Goble of Ohio’s Mansfield News Journal interviewed GPSO organizer John Feeney via email for this article which covers a number of the essentials of the population-environment challenge.
Feb. 26, 8:35am MST: GPSO endorser, marine scientist Emmett Duffy and GPSO organizer, John Feeney were interviewed live on Boulder, Colorado’s KGNU radio. The show included a recorded segment from GPSO endorser, anthropologist Jeffrey McKee. This was a one hour interview taking callers and covering a range of population issues and GPSO’s mission.
Feb. 25, 5:05pm MST: GPSO organizer John Feeney appeared live on The Journey Home, hosted by Diego Mulligan on KSFR, Santa Fe Public Radio. Topics included the causes of the population taboo, the astounding growth of the human population over history, the population-environment link, and the need to step back and look at the big picture if we are to avert a profound environmental and therefore human crisis. Click here for the audio.
Feb. 24, 10:07am MST: Host Keith Henty interviewed John Feeney for the hour on the Jefferson Exchange show. Topics included the origins of the population taboo, the population-environment link, and arguments — pro and con — concerning various population solutions. There was even a little discussion of urban growth issues, the subject which first led John into environmentalism. The show airs on nine stations over the Jefferson Public radio network covering Northern California and Southern Oregon.
Feb. 20, 1pm MST: John Feeney appeared on the TalkStar Radio Network’s “For the People” show hosted by Chuck Harder. The discussion ranged from GPSO to one of the difficult but fundamental issues underlying human overpopulation — the question of the population-food supply link.
Feb. 17: John Feeney was interviewed for a segment of Issues Today with Bob Gourley. After some introductory information, the primary topic was the Sixth Mass Extinction of species currently in evidence worldwide and closely linked to human population growth. On this topic a brief debate ensued. Bob did not seem to believe any mass extinction was happening. He pointed out that new species were being identified all the time, apparently confusing that with the evolution of new species and believing it offset the rate of extinctions. The audio is here.
Feb. 17: Shelley Irwin of WGVU-FM in Grand Rapids, Michigan interviewed John Feeney for the WGVU Morning Show. The focus was on the population-environment link and GPSO’s role in breaking the taboo against public discussion of overpopulation. We’ll provide audio if it becomes available.
Mentioning GPSO, an article by Meredith LaFrance at the independent student newspaper at the University of Oregon says it’s “increasingly necessary to break down this taboo and talk about ways we can work toward a more sustainable population.”
Feb. 14: In an article for MaximsNews Network, Jane Roberts reports on GPSO, describing its mission and comparing it with the emphases of 1994’s International Conference on Population and Development at Cairo. She sees the two as compatible: “Population and the fate of the women and girls of the world is crucial. But we ignore both at our peril.”
Feb. 12, 4pm MST: Hear Bill Sharon interview John Feeney live about GPSO, population issues, and the global ecological crisis on Blog Talk Radio.
Feb. 10: Pulse Niagra Magazine (Ontario, Canada) contributing writer Sarah Veale interviewed both John Feeney and GPSO pledger and Population Institute of Canada President Madeline Weld, for a piece in the March 19 issue. Topics included GPSO and a range of considerations concerning the population-environment link.
Feb. 9: WALO Radio in Puerto Rico ran a story on GPSO reported by meteorologist and environmental reporter Susan Soltero. It aired on the noon newscast on “Susan en su Ambiente.”
Feb. 7: Carey Shenkman of UCLAradio.com spoke with John Feeney about population issues, GPSO, and more in a wide ranging interview for a segment to be aired in the near future. We’ll provide a link or audio as it becomes available. Update: Here’s the audio.
Feb. 6: Interviewed for this article by Scott Learn at the Oregonian were GPSO signer (endorser) Richard York, pledger Jon Erlandson, and organizer John Feeney. Richard is Associate Professor of Sociology, at the University of Oregon and a member of the STIRPAT research team. Jon is Professor of Anthropology and Executive Director, Museum of Natural and Cultural History, University of Oregon. (There is space for comments under the article.)
Feb 3: GPSO organizer John Feeney and GPSO signer (endorser), Professor of Marine Science at the College of William and Mary’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Emmett Duffy were interviewed about GPSO and population issues for news segments on KRFC Radio, Fort Collins, Colorado. Here’s the audio: Emmett Duffy / John Feeney
Feb. 2: GPSO organizer John Feeney penned this article for the BBC’s Green Room to call attention to the taboo against open discussion of population and GPSO’s role in addressing it.
Feb. 2: Listen to an interview with GPSO organizer John Feeney and signer (endorser), Professor of Anthropology at Ohio State University, Jeffrey McKee on Conversations with Kathleen Dunn, Wisconsin Public Radio. Jeffrey is author of Sparing Nature: The Conflict Between Human Population Growth and Earth’s Biodiversity. Feel free to call in during the show!
Feb. 1: It’s a part of the territory; not all coverage is positive. But there is merit in the observation that any publicity is good publicity! In this piece in the Daily Mail, columnist Melanie Phillips responds to today’s articles in The Times, including the one featuring GPSO pledgers Pip Hayes and John Guillebaud. Mentioning GPSO (and denying anthropogenic climate change) along the way, Phillips offers a view oblivious to the unimaginable cost to humans and other species of continued overshoot and inattention to the population problem. It demonstrates one reason why this topic needs much more open discussion. With it, more people will inform themselves and fewer will so casually brush off the lives of billions with a wave of the ideological hand.
Feb. 1: This article by The Times health editor Sarah-Kate Templeton, describes GPSO pledger Dr. Pip Hayes’s decision not to provide fertility treatment to parents who already have large families. GPSO is described and another pledger, John Guillebaud, is quoted.
Jan. 27: For Dutch speakers! Hear a one hour interview on Radio1 with GPSO pledger, Jelle Reumer, author and director of the Rotterdam Natural History Museum. Beginning at about the 44 min. mark he discusses population, informing listeners of GPSO. (Jelle tells me this will only remain online for one week.)
Jan. 26: GPSO is described briefly in this Christian Science Monitor column by David Francis which offers several quotes from signer/endorser David Paxson of World Population Balance in the context of discussion of President Barack Obama’s reversal of the “global gag rule.”
Jan. 24: GPSO gets a mention on Andy Revkin’s Dot Earth blog at the New York Times. The article is about the work of GPSO pledger, Jane Roberts, co-founder of 34 Million Friends of UNFPA. Andy indicates he will soon write more about GPSO.
Oct. 31: Science is the first publication to cover GPSO. (Read a snip here.)
