Population Issues Network Newswatch

Looking at the world through demographics. This blog covers population in the news. Accelerating demographic growth is now the main factor driving biodiversity loss, growing resource scarcity, poverty and social conflict. Over-production and over-consumption are worsening this ecological crisis. 7 billion in 2011 - 9.3 or 10.6 billion (UN high estimate) by 2050. 80 million additional people a year at current rates! Is it not time to rethink population growth?

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Kids need to know - from Fiji

By Salaseini Vosamana

THE United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has urged parents to educate their children on family planning at a young age. This is part of a bid to control the high fertility rate in Fiji. The UNFPA has also conveyed the urgency for concerted efforts from stakeholders to address population and development issues in Fiji.

The comment was made by spokeswoman Lorna Rolls at the two-day UNFPA consultation at the Novotel Hotel in Lami.

"Parents are the key features of shaping their children's minds so the issue of overpopulation is controlled," Ms Rolls said.

For full article: http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=175052