June 1, 2020 | Article
Social Distancing Not Stopping Our Work With Teachers In a typical spring, PopEd staff would be crisscrossing the country, facilitating workshops with current and future teachers on campuses, in K-12 schools, and at conference centers. In mid-March, these plans, along with everyone else’s plans everywhere, came to a screeching halt.…...
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September 3, 2021 | Article
Elon Musk took a moment away from his astronautical machinations to deliver a finger-wagging Twitter warning for humanity: “Population collapse is potentially the greatest risk to the future of civilization.” Just how the annual global population increase of some 80 million people on our planet translates into a collapse seems…...
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January 20, 2023 | Post
The country with the largest population for the past 300 years, now home to 1.4 billion people, has officially begun shrinking, according to new demographic data. Many media outlets are painting this development as a potential disaster — it isn’t. Rather, it represents a necessary transition to a more sustainable…...
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November 10, 2022 | Post
Our population has reached a major milestone today: 8 billion people. While many may see this as an occasion to celebrate, our large and growing population presents some serious challenges. The latest projections by the United Nations Population Division revealed that our numbers will continue to rise until well into…...
Read MoreMarch 11, 2024 | Article
Recent and Upcoming Opportunities to Engage We have a full slate of virtual events planned for 2024 — we hope you’ll make this the year you start joining us if you haven’t already! We’ll be hosting more of our Global Partners and learning how the generosity of Population Connection members…...
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January 24, 2023 | Post
Through our Global Partners program, Population Connection supports a growing number of grassroots organizations around the world working to increase access to education, public health and family planning services. Their efforts make a vital difference in their local communities and represent the “final step” in our shared work to make…...
Read MoreDecember 12, 2022 | Article
A Classroom Simulation for 8 Billion and Growing We’ve just reached a huge global population milestone: 8 billion. To help students better understand how we got here and where we might be headed, we use visual representations and simulations in the classroom. One such high school activity is “Where Do…...
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December 29, 2023 | Post
Dear reader, as environmental and humanitarian news is generally very depressing, I wanted my final blog post of 2023 to be a summary of major global trends that are moving in the right direction. Collecting examples proved harder than anticipated, because for many widely touted success stories, progress has sadly…...
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June 14, 2021 | Article
The region is the poster child for insecurities already brought on by global warming. Originally published by Foreign Policy on February 18, 2021 One of the many injustices of climate change is it hits the world’s poorest countries hardest. African nations, many of which register the highest levels of poverty…...
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February 16, 2024 | Post
A new UN report found that one in five assessed migratory animals are threatened with extinction due to human activities. The main drivers of decline are habitat loss and overexploitation, but pollution and climate change represent additional major and growing threats. What is a migratory species? If you live in…...
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