Letter to Educators

WORLD POPULATION BALANCE
612-869-1640 P.O. Box 23472, Minneapolis, MN 55423 U.S.A.
Fax: 612-798-4859

www.WorldPopulationBalance.org

Education Opportunities and Population Issues
"No matter what your cause, it's a lost cause without population stabilization."

Dear Educator:

Welcome! We hope you will find this workshop highly stimulating and informative. We hope you will leave here convinced that population growth is, arguably, the world's most pressing problem. We hope you will feel inspired to return to your classrooms and (1) increase your lessons about population growth and its negative impact upon nearly all other major issues in the world, and (2) convey information about the numerous benefits that will result from stabilizing and slowly reducing human numbers to sustainable levels.

Our mission: World Population Balance is dedicated to raising awareness by educating the general public, policy makers, and the media about the ominous implications of population growth and the benefits of stabilization.

Guiding Principles: Population must be balanced by fair, humane and non-coersive means. We respectfully agree to disagree on the issue of abortion. We take an educational approach.

Once people understand how rapidly humans are depleting many of the world's resources, they then realize there is no such thing as a "sustainable" rate of population growth. Our current extraction and use of resources beyond their replacement rates is already unsustainable. As a result, we are diminishing the quality of life for future generations. It is essential that we reduce consumption and stop population growth.

One of our most successful educational initiatives involves school and college presentations. We are tremendously grateful to the World Population Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation for support to expand our educational outreach activities.

During coming months and years we look forward to serving you as a resource for population information as well as for classroom presentations-- either for individual classes or larger assemblies.

Please call upon us at any time for further support in teaching about this most critical issue facing our future on the planet.

Yours for population stabilization,

David Paxson, President
World Population Balance
(Former Minneapolis teacher)
612-869-1640   

Frank Babka, Public Educator
World Population Balance
(Former Cargill employee)
952-797-9843