Diana Liverman is a geographer who
directs the Institute of the Environment at the University of Arizona and a
Public Voices Fellow with The OpEd Project.
It's time to stop focusing on population growth as the cause of our environmental problems. It’s not the main culprit, and the women of the world are already doing all they can to slow it. They just need more support.
Observations from a day spent watching the “8 Mile” pack in Yellowstone with crowds of tourists from an environmental scientist who should know better.