Population Connection (formerly Zero Population Growth or ZPG) is a US-based non-profit organization that educates young people and advocates for progressive policies to stabilize world population at a level that can be sustained by Earth's resources.
History
Population Connection was founded in 1968 under the name "Zero Population Growth" or ZPG by
Paul R. Ehrlich, Richard Bowers, and
Charles Remington in the wake of Paul and Anne Ehrlich's influential but controversial book ''
The Population Bomb''. The organization adopted its current name in 2002.
Issues and campaigns
* Connections between population, health, and the environment, in the United States and around the world
* U.S. foreign assistance funding for international
family planning
Family planning is the consideration of the number of children a person wishes to have, including the choice to have no children, and the age at which they wish to have them. Things that may play a role on family planning decisions include marit ...
* U.S. funding for the domestic family planning program for low-income Americans, Title X
* Ending U.S. policies that restrict access to family planning and reproductive health care, including abortion, domestically (e.g.
Hyde Amendment) and internationally (e.g.
Mexico City policy,
Helms Amendment,
restrictions on funding for UNFPA)
* Comprehensive (as opposed to abstinence-only)
sex education
Sex education, also known as sexual education, sexuality education or sex ed, is the instruction of issues relating to human sexuality, including human sexual anatomy, Human sexual activity, sexual activity, sexual reproduction, safe sex, birth ...
for American teens
* Development of material for introduction to K-12 curricula to "educate American and Canadian students on population challenges".
* Publication of a quarterly magazine
Criticisms
Betsy Hartmann, author of "Reproductive Rights and Wrongs" in 1987 criticised ZPG for inciting fear of population growth that she claims led to millions of sterilizations in China, India, Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and elsewhere. Writing i
''On the Issues'' magazinein 2009, Hartmann said she received some "junk mail" from the organisation and commented that "According to ZPG, you can blame just about everything on population growth, from traffic congestion, overcrowded schools and childhood asthma to poverty, famine and global warming." In her book ''The America Syndrome: Apocalypse, War, and Our Call to Greatness'', Hartmann is again critical of the organization, noting that as the year 2000 millennium approached, the company launched a campaign that tried to link the birth of the world’s six billionth child to the coming Y2K global computer crash, a disaster that never materialized.
See also
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List of population concern organizations
This is a list of organizations that promote a moderation of the size of the human population.
Intergovernmental organizations
Worldwide
UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund)
Regional
Asia-Oceania
* All countries – Asian Forum of Parliame ...
*
Zero population growth
Zero population growth, sometimes abbreviated ZPG, is a condition of demography, demographic balance where the number of people in a specified population neither population growth, grows nor population decline, declines; that is, the number of bi ...
References
External links
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1968 establishments in the United States
501(c)(3) organizations
Human overpopulation think tanks
Non-profit organizations based in Washington, D.C.
Organizations established in 1968
Political advocacy groups in the United States
Population concern organizations
Political and economic think tanks in the United States
Population concern advocacy groups
Population research organizations
Sustainability organizations