1 http://www.daidaviesmp. co.uk/news/local-news/news. aspx?p=102167 2 Guardian 26 April 2010 3 http://tyler.blogware.com/lithium_ shortage.pdf 4 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Public_transport_in_Hasselt
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Ecosocialist Jane Kelly • Population control is a feminist issue only in so far as we oppose it. There are also several reasons why linking it to climate change is a problem. Socialist feminists have always supported reproductive rights and opposed population control. The very words give an idea why - rights versus control. As Terry Conway points out in her Socialist Resistence article Women and the crisis of civilisation' September 2009: The response to the climate crisis by the neo-malthusians who say there are too many people on the planet seeks to further limit women's right to control our own bodies and has racist implications in that the rate of population growth is greater in the countries of the south. Those posing population numbers as a problem rarely if ever suggest that women in the developed world should limit the number of children they nave, despite the tact that our carbon tootprint is larger than those living in the developing world. Socialist feminists have always supported a women's right to choose over reproduction and support struggles to facilitate that right. But it is perfectly possible that, even having gained those