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A Word for Stephen Colbert - Overpopulation
02 Jul 2012
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Nonsense About Sustainable Population Advocacy
23 Jul 2012
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Irrational Fear of Population Decline
13 Jul 2012
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Endangered Species Condoms
27 Jun 2012
Date posted: July 11 2017
It’s time we accept moral responsibility to conceive fewer children. Learn more.
Date posted: July 09 2016
This year’s theme is “investing in teenage girls.”
Date posted: July 09 2016
This portion of Al Jazeera English’s Inside Story, on the occasion of World Population Day in 2009, featured some frank talk from GrowthBusters director Dave Gardner. Still valid 7 years later.
Date posted: July 08 2014
If we wish to leave future generations a planet worth inheriting, we need to scale back. We need to “Think Small.” Returning world population to a sustainable level is mathematically achievable within a century. Fertility rates have been declining; we just need to accelerate that process. To do that, yes, we need to empower women. We need to make family planning affordable and accessible. We need to arm couples making family-size decisions with good information about overshoot and sustainability. We need to make small families cool, and large families, well…not.
Check out the Think Small photos, videos and stories people are sharing. And share yours! At the GrowthBusters Think Small page. You’ll find information there about how to get your Think Small Family Sticker.
Date posted: July 09 2013
As we observe World Population Day 2013 on July 11, we at the GrowthBusters project think this is a time to ensure the public is armed with the facts about population. We put this video together to do just that. I went out with a camera and microphone to talk to the people, to find out what they know and think about the state of the world population. You might be surprised at what I found.
Growth apologists want us to relax about population growth and remain complacent, waiting at least another 100 years for world population to stabilize (if supplies of food, water, energy and scarce resources miraculously keep up). Many people feel the UN population projections are just a fact of life and nothing we can do will end population growth sooner.
The truth is we don’t want to be complacent about the world’s growing population. The scale of the human enterprise (the size of our population and our economies) passed into overshoot (exceeding the Earth’s sustainable carrying capacity) 30 years ago.
This story will give you a quick snapshot.
And the truth is we have the power to not only stop population growth but to contract our population to a sustainable level – within 100 years if we really set our hearts on it, by simply making sure every couple around the world is armed with knowledge of what their family size decisions will mean to their own children, and by ensuring these couples have access to family planning tools like contraception, and by supporting women’s right to have a say in their own reproductive health.
You are welcome to show the video to any audience, at any event. I hope teachers will show this to their classes, parents to their children, constituents to their elected officials.
Special thanks to Nina Paley for the use of her wonderful stork animation.
To learn more about our full world and our culture’s unhealthy growth addiction, check out my documentary, GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth. Follow us on facebook and Twitter. And please donate to help us spread the word about our culture’s worship of growth everlasting.
Dave Gardner
Director of the documentary
GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth
Date posted: June 26 2012