We look back on the screening of Vegucated, look forward to Go Green Week, Lord Stern admits his climate change review underestimated the situation, the UK's "baby boom" leads to a midwife shortage, African wildlife in decline, David Attenborough calls humans "a plague on earth" and quinoa corrections.
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Show Notes for episode #16 of The Species Barrier:
Go Green Week: http://environment.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/go-green/
GrowthBusters: http://www.growthbusters.org/
Baby boom/Midwife crisis: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/baby-boom-brings-midwife-crisis-8459215.html
Elephants in crisis: http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2013/s3683920.htm
West African Lions on the brink: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jan/08/west-african-lions-extinction-report
Mackerel fishes no longer "sustainable": http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jan/22/mackerel-off-conservationists-eat-list
New Garbage patch in the sea discovered: http://5gyres.org/posts/2013/01/17/a_new_garbage_patch_discovered_the_south_pacific_gyre
David Attenborough calls humans "A plague on earth": http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/humans-are-a-plague-on-earth-sir-david-attenborough-warns-that-negative-effects-of-population-growth-will-come-home-to-roost-8461570.html
Bindi Irwin censored on Population: http://www.news.com.au/world/hillary-clinton-tries-to-silence-brave-bindi/story-fndir2ev-1226560803039
Stern: Climate change much worse than first thought: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jan/27/nicholas-stern-climate-change-davos
China's economic growth and pollution: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9815006/Chinese-leaders-have-failed-to-shield-environment-from-economic-growth.html
Quinoa correction: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/22/quinoa-bolivian-farmers-meat-eaters-hunger
MAHB: http://mahb.stanford.edu/
Paul Ehrlich's new paper "too optimistic": http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/22/population-bomb-scientist-nobody-has-the-right-to-as-many-children-as-they-want/
Mother: http://www.motherthefilm.com/
Transition Lincoln: http://transitionlincoln.org.uk/
