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Spring Benefit Gala

Dr. George Archibald, Co-Founder of the International Crane Foundation and long-time Advisory Board member of World Population Balance, will be our featured speaker at our Spring Benefit Gala on Saturday, April 28th, at the Lilydale Pool and Yacht Club. The evening will include a buffet, live dinner music, and fun! Watch for further details.Read more

What You Can Do to Work on the Overpopulation CRISIS

At 7,000,000,000 people, the Earth is overpopulated relative to many of the planet’s finite and declining vital resources. Take positive action to stop overpopulation by helping others understand this CRISIS. Wider understanding is the crucial, first step to solving it.

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Being Fruitful Without Multiplying

Hear a sermon jointly delivered by WPB President, David Paxson, and James Gertmenian.Read more

Population Information Card

At only business card size it's handy for wallet or purse!  If you'd like copies mailed to you, contact us at office@worldpopulationbalance.org or call our office at 612-869-1640.

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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.Read more

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Our newsletters includes articles such as: "Treading on a Taboo",  "Addressing the Big Issue", "Bartlett's Lifetime of Population Education", and others.

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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

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