One Planet One Child
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Our most recent newsletter includes articles such as: "Become Overpopulation Literate and Take Action", "Attend January Info Session About Population Activist Workshop", "We're Not Making This Up, Folks!", and others.
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Being Fruitful Without Multiplying
Hear a sermon jointly delivered by WPB President, David Paxson, and James Gertmenian.
Rev. Dr. James Gertmenian, Senior Minister of Plymouth Congregational Church in downtown Minneapolis, invited David Paxson to jointly deliver this sermon on overpopulation in June of 2011. Listen to the sermon:
Population Information Card
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Re-Examining Our Approach to Ecology
By Rex Weyler
Piecemeal ecology isn’t working.
Forty years have passed since the founding of Greenpeace and the first UN environment meeting in Stockholm, fifty years since the groundbreaking Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, and 115 years since Svante Arrhenius warned that burning hydrocarbons would heat Earth’s atmosphere. Read more about Re-Examining Our Approach to Ecology
What Concerns You Most About Overpopulation?
Current Population is Three Times the Sustainable Level
Current global population of over 7 billion is already two to three times higher than the sustainable level. Several recent studies show that Earth’s resources are enough to sustain only about 2 billion people at a European standard of living.
An average European consumes far more resources than any of the poorest two billion people in the world. However, Europeans use only about half the resources of Americans, on average.
The Population Bubble
By David Bacon
In the Roadrunner and Coyote cartoons there is usually a scene where Coyote, chasing Roadrunner, runs off a cliff. He continues on a horizontal line for a couple of seconds, looking increasingly puzzled and concerned, until he realizes his predicament, tries vainly to reverse course, and falls to the desert below.
This is symbolic of the situation ecologists call “overshoot.” Overshoot is when a species reproduces to a number that its environment can’t sustain. Read more about The Population Bubble
