POPULATION GROWTH IS THE PRIMARY DRIVER OF MANKIND’S MOST SERIOUS PROBLEMS AND THE MAJOR OBSTACLE TO OVERCOMING THEM.
The Population Institute Canada campaigns for environmentally sustainable population levels, globally and in Canada, through universal access to non-coercive family planning. There cannot be infinite growth on an already overcrowded planet with finite space. Fewer feet = smaller, less harmful footprints.
DONATEWHY WE SHOULD CARE DEEPLY…AND TAKE MEANINGFUL ACTION
TO SAVE THE PLANET
Population growth makes demands on the natural world that are overwhelming our efforts to protect the biosphere and to achieve a sustainable future.
TO REDUCE SCARCITY
Scarcity - of food, water, energy, and other essentials - is increasing. Result: repeating cycles of hunger, famine, mass migrations, and conflict.
FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS
Seven billion humans today, 9 billion+ by 2050... increasing by 150 a minute, 1.5 million a week, 80 million a year.
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Countdown to Meltdown
Lester Brown, guru of the environmental movement, described in the Washington Post as “one of the world’s most influential thinkers”, sees food scarcity, brought on by water shortages, climate change and soil depletion, compounded by rapid population growth, as trends that may well threaten world order (Scientific American, May 2009). Excerpt from Scientific American Magazine, [...]
The More the Merrier?
If this video doesn’t stop you in your tracks and make you think about mushrooming populations, nothing will! Way back in 1950 when my parents were born there were 2,5 billion people on this planet. By the time I arrived in 1985, this had doubled to 5 billion people. Today, there are roughly 7 billion, [...]