Population organizations
If I am sounding "alarmist," it is only because there is genuine cause for serious alarm ... There is no time to lose. -- anthropologist, Jeffrey K. McKee on the link between human population and the mass extinction crisis
These organizations are all doing important work raising awareness and advocating for sound population policiy.
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Direct action
Groups working "on the ground"-
Unique organization producing research-proven serial broadcast dramas to educate, raise awareness, and promote empowered, healthy attitudes toward family planning and related issues.
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Information, awareness, and advocacy
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Not exactly an organization, but a project I created to bring new voices to the population issue and help break down the taboo against public discussion of the topic. Endorsed by a distinguished group.
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Lots of good articles and information here.
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Raising awareness of population issues from the local to the global, and strengthening regional action.
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Norwegian group offering information on sustainability with an emphasis on population.
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UK group raising awareness and promoting research and policy. Excellent information and well argued articles highlighting the impact of population on the environment.
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Mobilizing political and financial support for population and related issues.
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Network helping its member groups communicate the importance for sustainability of both population and per capita consumption.
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Formerly Zero Population Growth. Educating young people and advocating for action on global population.
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Seeks to reduce rapid population growth and achieve a world population in balance with a healthy global environment.
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Encourages responsible population measures at home and abroad.
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Informing people about population and working to put information into action.
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Promotes sound analysis of population data in making public policy.
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Multi-faith network with a focus, in part, on population.
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Some insightful material here.
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Massive website you can mine for information on all facets of overpopulation.
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Raising awareness throughout the Midwestern US through talks, interviews, ad campaigns, public programs, and more.
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Advocating for the stabilization of the Vermont, US, and world populations.
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Special focus groups
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The only group devoted to the link between human population and the Sixth Extinction. Emphasis on immigration as a driver of Canada's population. Explicitly non-racist, non-misanthropic. A controversial but, alas, legitimate environmental consideration.
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Sierra Club members pushing for a stronger club policy on United States population. Group may now be inactive, but it's a revealing look inside SC politics. The SC, by the way, is extremely weak in its work on global overpopulation as well.
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UN links
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Many key links to UN population projects including the widely cited (and misinterpreted) "World Population Prospects" reports.
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Supports countries in using population data for policies and programs.
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Portal to population information on UN system web sites.
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