Marx, population and freedom

Roche, Julian

doi:10.3197/jps.2020.5.1.31

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“…To this day, the shift in focus since the Cairo Consensus has resulted in censoring of discourse and action surrounding overpopulation as a driving force underlying increasingly urgent environmental concerns (Campbell and Bedford, 2009;Kopnina and Washington, 2016;Kuhlemann, 2019;Coole, 2021). It is aided by elements of the political left who are suspicious of any interventions for demographic purposes (Roche, 2020) and argue with some justification that the environmental impacts of high fertility populations in the developing world are a small fraction of those in wealthy nations, and that even to raise environmental concerns in association with high fertility countries amounts to 'racism' (Kopnina and Washington, 2016). But these narratives have not just constrained our ability to address ecological degradation.…”

Section: The Silencing Of Population Discoursementioning

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Challenging Pronatalism Is Key to Advancing Reproductive Rights and a Sustainable Population

Bajaj¹,

Stade²

2023

JP&S

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Social and environmental justice organisations have silenced discourse on human overpopulation due to fear of any association with reproductive coercion, but in doing so they have failed to acknowledge the oppressive role of pronatalism in undermining reproductive autonomy. Pronatalism, which comprises cultural and institutional forces that compel reproduction, is far more widespread, and as damaging to individual liberties as attempts to limit reproduction. The failure to recognise the enormity of pronatalism has led to the wholesale abandonment of voluntary, rights-based efforts toward a sustainable population despite widespread scientific agreement that population growth is a major driver of multiple cascading environmental crises. We examine the full range of patriarchal, cultural, familial, religious, economic and political pronatalist pressures, and argue that the reluctance to address population as a driver of the ecological crisis serves the very pronatalist forces that undermine reproductive autonomy. We posit that addressing overpopulation, and the pronatalism that drives it, must be central to international conservation and development efforts to elevate reproductive rights while also promoting planetary health.

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Section: The Silencing Of Population Discoursementioning

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Challenging Pronatalism Is Key to Advancing Reproductive Rights and a Sustainable Population

Bajaj¹,

Stade²

2023

JP&S

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“…In fact, this topic has long been debated in various circles. Karl Marx and Thomas Malthus, two "classical population" experts, were the first to examine the issue of population in the world (Roche, 2020;Szreter, 2018). Later, the issue was discussed by the following generation, most significantly in Thompson's "Demographic Transition Theory" (Kirk, 1996;Thompson, 1929).…”

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Sustaining Agricultural Growth: Traps of Socio–Demographics in Emerging Markets

Jiuhardi¹,

Hasid²,

Darma³

et al. 2022

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This research aims to evaluate the effect of the global innovation index (GII), urban population (UP), rural population (RP), social globalization index (SGI), and Demographic Pressures (DP) on agriculture value added (AVA). The samples were collected from The Global Economy relating to four countries, namely, China, Indonesia, USA, and India during 2013-2020. The collected data were analyzed through comparative panel regression. The results show that, in the long term, the increase in UP is significantly correlated with AVA in China, Indonesia, and India. Then, an increase in RP is significantly associated with AVA in India, and SGI exerts a significant effect on AVA in the USA. In the short term, every increase in GII has a significant effect on AVA in Indonesia and the USA. Furthermore, RP has a significant impact on AVA in China. A case study in India, reported that a decrease in SGI and DP significantly affect AVA. Meanwhile, the short-term DP growth greatly influences the AVA in the USA. The novelty of this research lies in the finding that the agricultural sector's tendency expands our knowledge of how many agricultural clusters in rural communities change their functions as a large number of rural residents relocate to metropolitan areas. Further, the debate over the HR industry's level of competition does not create job possibilities. In China, Indonesia, and the USA, DP enhances AVA. Stakeholders are required to reduce housing density through innovative agriculture concepts that are more humanistic and creative, even though DP only suppresses AVA in India.

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Marx, population and freedom

Cited by 2 publications

References 27 publications

Challenging Pronatalism Is Key to Advancing Reproductive Rights and a Sustainable Population

Challenging Pronatalism Is Key to Advancing Reproductive Rights and a Sustainable Population

Sustaining Agricultural Growth: Traps of Socio–Demographics in Emerging Markets

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