Michael Cook
 Michael Cook likes bad puns, bushwalking and black coffee. He did a BA at Harvard University in the US where it was good for networking, but moved to Sydney where it wasn’t. He also did a PhD on an obscure corner of Australian literature. He has worked as a book editor and magazine editor and has published articles in magazines and newspapers in the US, the UK and Australia. Currently he is the editor of BioEdge, a newsletter about bioethics, and MercatorNet. |
China wakes up to consequences of one-child policy
Michael Cook | 14 Jan 2010
The penny has finally dropped for the Chinese
government. The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences has admitted that
gender imbalance because of its draconian one-child policy is a serious
problem. In a report in the Chinese newspaper Global Times,
demographers Wang Guangzhou and Wang Yuesheng sketched some of China’s
intractable problems.
Russia’s brief burst of optimism
Michael Cook | 13 Jan 2010
With a population of 141.9 million, Russia is registering a growth for the first time since 1995, says Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
For the past five years the number of Russian deaths had declined,
while births had risen. Life-expectancy is about to reach the age of 69.
Boris Johnson on over-population
Michael Cook | 13 Jan 2010
Gee, I missed this one from the hoo-haa surrounding the Copenhagen Summit. Sorry…
Bangladesh endorses one-child policy
Michael Cook | 5 Jan 2010
Bangladesh is going to introduce a voluntary "one couple, one child" population planning policy by 2015 to curb its growing population.
John Lennon on the population bomb
Michael Cook | 5 Jan 2010
Arguments from authority are very weak indeed, but when the authority is John Lennon, what the heck.
Will the one-child policy wreck China’s economy?
Michael Cook | 14 Dec 2009
China’s rapid economic development and America’s evident vulnerabilty
after the Global Financial Crisis could make the Chinese a bit smug.
But as leading demographer Nicholas Eberstadt points out in a
frightening article in the Far Eastern Economic Review, China faces gigantic economic problems as the legacy of its one-child policy.
An "odious, zombie-like Malthusian" organisation has a plan to save the world
Michael Cook | 10 Dec 2009
Not even the journalists reporting from the Copenhagen summit on
climate change understand all the complex economic and technological
strategies for reducing the world's carbon footprint and averting
catastrophic global warming -- let alone the rest of us. There's cap
and trade, emissions trading schemes, carbon taxes, discount rates and
a phonebook of acronyms. But there is one equation which could be a
very easy sell to save the world: fewer people = fewer carbon
footprints.
MercatorNet exclusive -- poetry by Al Gore
Michael Cook | 9 Dec 2009
Al Gore’s latest book has just hit the bookshops. Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis is a lavishly illustrated handbook for climate-change activism -- with his first public poetry. It's awful.
Will Ethiopia become a Muslim-majority nation?
Michael Cook | 7 Dec 2009
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