Author: Mariah Wheeler

OGDEN, Utah – Last year’s general session of the Utah Legislature ended right as the coronavirus pandemic was hitting. The 2021 session is starting next week, and things are still not back to normal. KUER’s Emily Means spoke with Senate President Stuart Adams, R-Layton, about what to expect this session. Emily Means: Talk about some of your policy priorities for this session. Stuart Adams: Education is always number one. When the session ended last year, the pandemic hit us. We chose to use a blended approach that protects lives, but also we had to protect livelihoods. Because we used that blended…

OGDEN, Utah – You may have heard people say, “we wouldn’t be in a climate crisis if we had fewer people on Earth.”  The overpopulation narrative is an outdated frame that was popularized in the 1960s. It serves to redirect the blame for societal problems to those with the least power to address them. The justification goes like this: “our global population is increasing to a point that the environment simply cannot support, and overpopulation is the main cause of resource depletion and climate chaos, therefore we need solutions like ‘population control’—reducing the number of people to curb climate change.” While 100 companies are…