Soaring Past 7 Billion: Population Challenges for a Crowded World

FORUM SPONSORED BY THE WILDFLOWER JUSTICE AND CLIMATE ACTION TEAMS:

“Soaring Past 7 Billion: Population Challenges for a Crowded World”

When:    Sunday Jan. 10, 1:00 PM, after services and fellowship time.

Where:    Wildflower U.U.  Church, 1314 E. Oltorf, in Wildflower’s Community Room.

CHILDCARE WILL BE AVAILABLE, and PIZZA FROM 12:30-1.

Please plan to attend this informative talk by John Seager, Population Connection’s President and CEO, which has been given to many UUA congregations across the country.

 John Seager’s presentation will address global population growth, its causes and impacts, and how we can meet those challenges. We add 200,000+ people to the world every day, and 75 million every year. This growth—which is mainly in the poorest places on earth—leads to vast poverty and environmental devastation. Yet there are more than 220 million women worldwide who want to limit their family size but who cannot afford contraception or who have never even heard of it. Population growth is the *only* global challenge for which all of the following are true: 1. We know how to fix it; 2. It’s relatively inexpensive; and 3. Women everywhere want it.

Population Connection (formerly known as Zero Population Growth) is the preeminent progressive grassroots group for population education and advocacy, with more than 500,000 members and supporters, including 50,000 participating educators. They focus on achieving global population stabilization through universal awareness and access to voluntary family planning together with the full empowerment of women.          www.popconnect.org