A report by Mexico’s population-growth monitoring agency attributes many of the country’s gravest socioeconomic problems to ecological damage. The report was published last month by the government-run National Population Council as part of a study of population and development in Mexico from 1994 to 2003. It presents a laundry list of Mexican environmental ills and suggests that many of the country’s principal population challenges—especially tumultuous internal and international migration patterns and increasing poverty—are in large part a product of those problems. The report’s findings are particularly notable coming from a group not normally preoccupied with environmental monitoring and, some say, a sign that the Mexican government may be realizing the serious impact ecological problems are having on many aspects of the... [Log in to read more]