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Population education -- promoting stabilization to benefit everyone!*
The Population is Still Growing!
- We speak directly to over 9,000 people a year, most of them students, throughout the Upper Midwest of the United States.
- We emphasize the demographic facts of population growth and its relationship to other major issues.
- Our Mission helps us to work with diverse groups of people.
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- You can help to promote humane and ethical population stabilization.
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Exciting New Ad Campaign We are seeking special funds to run ads similar to this one in several Minnesota publications this fall. These full-color ads will add to the attention gained by our messages on public radio. If you would like to help us publish these ads, please make a tax-deductible contribution. You will make an incredible difference! Thank you. |
Current Population is 3x Sustainable LevelCurrent global population of over 6.6 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. Currently the 6.6 billion of us are consuming about 25% more resources than Earth is producing. Obviously, this 25% overshoot is not sustainable. Even worse, the longer we overshoot and consume more resources than the sustainable level, the more the long-term "sustainable level" actually declines! |
Featured Article
Confronting the Twenty-First Century’s Hidden Crisis:
Reducing Human Numbers by 80%
by J. Kenneth Smail
Within the next half-century, it will be essential for the human species to have a set of initiatives focused on reducing the world population by at least 80%. It is important that the process of consensus-building begin now. The mathematical inevitability that human numbers will continue to increase over the next two generations, to perhaps 9 billion by the year 2050, and the high probability that this increase will exacerbate still further the problems that already plague humanity, only reinforces the sense of urgency. Humanity must not only take significant steps to arrest the rapid growth of human population but also begin to reduce it dramatically.
Other Articles from our August 2007 newsletter
Whatever your cause ... it's a lost cause without population stabilization.
*Pro-life and pro-choice members respectfully agree to disagree in order to promote fair and humane population stabilization.