Population Connection
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| Formerly | Zero Population Growth (1968–2002) |
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| Company type | 501(c)(3) |
| Founded | 1968 |
| Founders | Paul Ehrlich, Richard Bowers, and Charles Remington |
| Headquarters | Washington, D.C., U.S. |
Key people | John Seager (President) |
| Revenue | $14,925,445 (2021) |
| Website | www |
Population Connection (formerly Zero Population Growth or ZPG) is a non-profit organization based in the United States that claims population growth should be controlled.[1]
History
[edit]The organization was founded in 1968 by Paul R. Ehrlich, Richard Bowers, and Charles Remington in the wake of Paul and Anne Ehrlich's influential but controversial[2] book "The Population Bomb". The inspiration from the book came during a trip Paul Ehrlich and his family took to Delhi in India in 1966. The organization adopted its current name in 2002, formerly going by the name "Zero Population Growth" or ZPG.
Issues and campaigns
[edit]- Connections between population, health, and the environment, in the United States and around the world
- U.S. foreign assistance funding for international family planning[3]
- 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 for American teens
- Development of material for introduction to K-12 curricula to "educate American and Canadian students on population challenges".[4]
- Publication of a quarterly magazine
Criticisms
[edit]Although its website used to say "It's never about "population Control." It's always about empowering people" in 2019, it has been pointed out that Ehrlich voiced different views, saying that political power must be used to influence countries to exercise "population control".[2] Some of the ideas suggested by Ehrlich were for “compulsory birth regulation” and “sterilizing all Indian males with three or more children”.[5]
Betsy Hartmann, author of "Reproductive Rights and Wrongs"[6] in 1987 criticises Population Connection for funding fertility-reduction programs that she claims led to millions of sterilizations in China, India, Mexico, Bolivia, Peru, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and elsewhere. Writing in "On The Issues" magazine in 2009, Hartmann received some "junk mail" from the company 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.[7]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Sonn, Donald. "Lecturer explores population control issues". www.thedp.com. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
- ^ a b NC Newsline - A 1960s population control organization rebranded in 2002. Now it’s recruiting UNC students. By: Aditi Kharod, November 20, 2019
- ^ Starkey, Marian (2021-07-11). "Let's fully fund international family planning on World Population Day". The Hill. Retrieved 2022-06-13.
- ^ "Charity Navigator - Rating for Population Connection". Charity Navigator. Retrieved 2017-02-06.
- ^ "The Malthusians Are Back - Climate activists who worry that the world has too many people are joining an ugly tradition." By Alex Trembath and Vijaya Ramachandran, published March 22, 2023
- ^ Hartmann, Betsy (2016). Reproductive Rights and Wrongs. ISBN 978-1-60846-733-4.
- ^ Hartmann, Betsy (2017-05-23). The America Syndrome. New York ; Oakland ; London: National Geographic Books. ISBN 1-60980-740-5.
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