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Here's something odd - a while ago, the website of the National Wildlife Federation (http://www.nwf.org) had an article by Don Hinrichsen, an environmentalist who is also a "consultant on population" for the United Nations called "6,000,000,000 Consumption Machines" which referred to children as "consumption machines" and discussed how they damaged 'our' environment.

This charming article has been deleted from the NWF's website, though Google search records its existence (http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1CHMA_e... and it has been reproduced elsewhere on the net and can still be read. Here for example: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1170/is_199...

If you follow this link, the citation/copyright note for the article says: [QUOTE]

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""Don Hinrichsen is an environmental reporter who specializes in covering the developing world. For the last 12 years, he has also been a consultant on population for the United Nations system, principally the UN Population Fund. His analysis is based on an in-depth review of available sources, including government agencies, environmental groups, think tanks, international entities and individual experts. For information on the National Wildlife Federation's population efforts, see its web site: www.nwf.org/international/pop.""

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But if you want to find out about the National Wildlife Federation's population efforts and click on the link you no longer get taken to a page on overpopulation, but rather to this page on climate change http://www.nwf.org/Global-Warming/Policy-Solutions...

So why has the National Wildlife Federation tried to scrub all mention of it's "efforts" on overpopulation from the internet and replace them with global warming instead?

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